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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 Department.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1916, ch. 560.

7. The State Librarian is authorized and directed to furnish the De-
partment 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 con-
taining 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 judgment of the State Libra-
rian, are available for that purpose; the title to all of said books to remain
in the State of Maryland.

An. Code, sec. 8. 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 proceedings
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 ren-
dered by the Attorney-General or his Department during the preceding
calendar year, shall be published annually in bound volumes.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1916, ch. 560.

9. The Attorney-General, upon written request to the Governor ap-
proved in writing by the Governor, may from time to time, employ such
additional assistant counsel as, in his judgment, may be necessary, in con-
nection with the performance of the duties of his department in extraor-
dinary 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 compensation 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.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1916, ch. 560.

10. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to the Public Service
Commission of Maryland,1 the Boards of Supervisors of Elections of the
several Counties of the State, the Boards of School Commissioners of the
several Counties of the State, or to any County boards or officers, but the
powers and authority of such boards or officers to appoint, employ or have

1 See, however, art. 23, sec. 353.