GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1509

An. Code, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1896, ch. 264. 1900, ch. 194. 1908, ch. 407. 1912, ch. 593.
1916, ch. 543. 1920, ch. 287. 1924, ch. 278.

69. The Governor shall appoint a board of three commissioners for
the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, whose
duty it shall be to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insol-
vency, form of notarial certificates and other subjects; to ascertain the best
means to effect an assimilation and uniformity in the laws of the States
and especially to meet with representatives appointed by the other States
of the Union in a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the
approval and adoption of the several States and to advise and recommend
such other course of action as shall best accomplish the purposes of this
section. The Governor shall fill vacancies in said commission and re-
appoint from time to time as may, in his judgment, be necessary to
carry out the purposes of this section. Such commissioners shall hold office
for the term of three years and until their successors shall have been duly
appointed and qualified. No member of said board shall receive any com-
pensation for his services as commissioner, but each commissioner shall be
entitled to receive his actual disbursements for his expenses in performing
the duties of his office. In case any of the persons appointed as above will
not undertake the office of this commission, or in case of a vacancy on said
board, such vacancy shall be filled by the Governor. Said board may em-
ploy such persons and incur such expenses as may be necssary in the per-
formance of their duties; but the total annual expense of said board shall
not exceed such sum as may be appropriated therefor. Said board may,
out of its annual appropriation, contribute to the expense of the conference
of the commissioners from the various states such sum as they may think
proper, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars a year. Said board shall
report to the Legislature at its session of 1927, and from that time thereafter
as said board may deem proper, an account of its transactions and its
advice and recommendations in relation to the subjects hereinbefore
mentioned.

State Librarian.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 46).

70. The State Librarian shall be assigned to the Executive Department.
The State Librarian shall have and exercise the rights, powers, duties, obli-
gations and functions now or hereafter conferred by law; and, in addition,
shall report in writing annually to the Governor, on or before the first day
of January, upon the work and operations of said office during the preced-
ing year. The Library Committee of the Court of Appeals shall continue
as now provided for by sections 86 to 91, inclusive, of this Article.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 1. 1904, art. 55, sec. 1. 1888, art. 55, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 3.

71. The state librarian shall take and subscribe before the governor
the oath prescribed by the constitution.

Requisites of a valid return to an alternative writ of mandamus alleging that
the oath of office had been taken by the state librarian. Harwood v. Marshall, 10
Md. 463.

As to the state librarian, see art. 7, sec. 3, and art. 15, sec. 9, of the Md. Consti-
tution. See also Silver v. Magruder, 32 Md. 395; Marshall v. Harwood, 5 Md. 431.