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An. Code, art. 55, sec. 14. 1904, art. 55, sec. 14. 1892, ch. 420, sec. 15.

85. And the said judges of the court of appeals are hereby authorized
to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee by resignation or
otherwise.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 15. 1904, art. 55, sec. 15. 1900, ch. 271, sec. 2.

86. The governor, by and with the advice of the library committee
created by section 82 of this article, is authorized and empowered to ap-
point a person as indexer and cataloguer of the state library who shall hold
his office for the period of two years, or until his successor is duly appointed
and qualified, and who shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per
annum, payable in monthly instalments by warrant of the comptroller upon
the treasurer. It shall be the duty of the said indexer and cataloguer to
attend daily at the state library on each day that the same is open and there
continue the work of indexing and card cataloguing under the system now
adopted and carried on therein, and as far as practicable keep the said
work up to date; and he shall also perform such other services (when his
time is not fully occupied in indexing and cataloguing) as shall be required
of him by the said library committee.

An. Code, art. 55, sec. 16. 1906, ch. 50.

87. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
is authorized and empowered to appoint a person as custodian of works of
references, who shall hold office for a period of two years or until the
appointment of a successor; who shall receive an annual salary of seven
hundred and twenty dollars, payable monthly in instalments by warrant
of the comptroller upon the treasurer. It shall be the duty of the custodian
of works of references to attend daily at the library during such hours as
may be fixed by the library committee, and shall perform, such duties as
may be required by said library committee and the state librarian.1

2.
The Finance Department.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 46).

88. The Finance Department is hereby established. It shall comprise
the Treasury Department, as created by the Constitution, and perform
such additional functions as are herein prescribed. The heads of this
Department shall be the Comptroller and the Treasurer, exercising, respec-
tively, the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions now or herein
or hereafter conferred upon them, respectively, by the Constitution and
laws of the State.

As to the comptroller, see art. 19.
As to the state treasurer, see art. 95.

1 As to the archives and ancient documents of the province and state, published by
the Maryland Historical Society, see acts 1906, ch. 256, acts 1908, ch. 91, and acts 1910,
ch. 39 (p. 430).