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ART. XXXIIA] DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 245
1916, ch. 560.
6. The Department of Law is authorized to establish and maintain
offices and headquarters. All papers and documents relating to the busi-
ness of the Department shall be permanently filed in said offices. The
offices shall be equipped, maintained and supplied at the expense of the
State, and the Attorney-General and his assistants shall be allowed for
, all traveling and other expenses connected with the duties of the Depart-
ment.
1916, ch. 560.
7. The State Librarian is authorized and directed to furnish the
Department of Law, upon the request of the Attorney-General, one or
more sets of the Maryland Reports, and copies of the additional reports
as issued, one or more sets of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, and copies of the additional Acts as issued, and sets of the
several Codes containing the public general and local laws of Maryland,
and supplements thereto as issued, and also from time to time such other
law books, or sets thereof, now or hereafter in the State Library, as the
Attorney-General may desire for his Department, and as, in the judg-
ment of the State Librarian, are available for that purpose; the title
to all of said books to remain in the State of Maryland.
1916, ch. 560.
8. The Attorney-General shall, on the first day of January, in each
year, make a written report to the Governor of the business and pro-
ceedings of the Department of Law during the preceding calendar year,
together with an itemized statement of his receipts and disbursements
during the preceding fiscal year, and such recommendations, if any, as
he may consider appropriate to make. Such annual report, together
with the opinions rendered by the Attorney-General or his Department
during the preceding calendar year, shall be published annually in
bound volumes.
1916, ch. 560.
9. The Attorney-General, upon written request to the Governor
approved in writing by the Governor, may from time to time, employ
such additional assistant counsel as, in his judgment, may be necessary,
in connection with the performance of the duties of his Department in
extraordinary or unforeseen cases, or in special local County work. No
such additional assistant counsel shall be employed unless the written
request from the Attorney-General to the Governor therefor shall state
the necessity and reasons for such special employment, the compensa-
tion to be paid, and the source or fund from which the same is to be
paid. If in any case the Attorney-General cannot ascertain in advance
the proper compensation to be paid for such services, he shall so certify
to the Governor, and in such case the compensation may be left for
future agreement or adjustment.
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