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executive department of each State in the union one copy; to the comp-
troller of the treasury, the treasurer of Maryland and the state tax com-
missioner one copy each, and shall transmit a copy of each of the volumes
of the Maryland reports, as the same have been or shall hereafter be
received, to the library of the bar association of the District of Columbia,
upon condition that the said bar association of the District of Columbia
shall transmit to the state librarian in Annapolis the past reports of the
District of Columbia and of court of appeals of the District of Columbia
and the current volumes of said District of Columbia courts as the same
shall hereafter be published, and to the librarian of the Library Company
of the Baltimore bar such copies of the reports, laws, journals and docu-
ments of the State of Maryland of which he may now have duplicates and
of which he may have duplicates from time to time as new volumes are
published, as can be spared from the state library, not exceeding in each
case two copies of such volumes. The remainder of said reports shall be
deposited in the state library.

As to the publication of the Maryland reports, see art. 80, sec. 3.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 11. 1904, art. 55, sec. 11. 1888, art. 55, sec. 12. 1870, ch. 272.

81. The sum of five hundred dollars shall be appropriated annually
for the purchase of books and maps for the augmentation of the library,
to be expended under the direction of the committee named in section 82.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 12. 1904, art. 55, sec. 12. 1892, ch. 420, sec. 13.

82. The judges of the court of appeals, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorized to appoint a committee of three or more persons to serve
without compensation, who shall have the power and authority to purchase
from time to time such books, maps and periodicals as they may deem
advisable for the use of the state library, and said committee may draw on
the treasurer of the State from time to time for such sums of money as
may be necessary to pay for said books, maps and periodicals, not to exceed,
however, the sum annually appropriated for the augmentation of the state

library.

1922, ch. 182.

83. The Librarian, with the approval of the Library Committee of the
Maryland State Library, shall have the power and authority to sell from
time to time such books, including the Maryland Reports and Codes, maps
and periodicals, in the State Library, as they consider prudent and desirable
to sell, and the proceeds of such sales, after deducting the expenses incident
thereto, to be paid over to the Treasurer of the State within thirty days
after the receipt thereof; provided no book, map or periodical shall be so
sold if its sale would break a set.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 13. 1904, art. 55, sec. 13. 1892, ch. 420, sec. 14.

84. The said committee are hereby authorized to pass such rules and
regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the conduct and
management of said library; provided such rules and regulations be not
inconsistent with law.