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Charter, and hold his office as therein provided. The said Superintendent
of Public Buildings shall provide for the watching, cleaning and heating,
and shall have charge of, the City Hall and the buildings and offices in
which the different courts of the city may be held and in which their
records may be kept. He shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per
annum, payable monthly, and perform such other duties as may be pro-
vided by ordinances, not inconsistent with this Charter. He shall employ
such assistants and employees, and at such compensation as may be fixed
by ordinance.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

1918, Home Rule Charter.

208. All printing which may be required for the City of Baltimore,
shall be done in accordance with ordinances of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil not inconsistent with this Charter.

DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE.

1906. ch. 505.

208A. There shall be a Department of Legislative Reference of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The head of said Department
shall consist of a Board composed of the Mayor of Baltimore, the City
Solicitor, the President of the Johns Hopkins University, the President
of the Municipal Art Society, and the President of the Merchants and
Manufacturers' Association of Baltimore City, and the members of the
said Board shall serve without pay. The said Board shall have power to
employ a competent statistician as its executive officer to conduct the
said department, but the present executive officer and any future in-
cumbent shall hold office during good behavior, and shall be subject to
removal by the said Board or a majority thereof, for incompetence or
neglect of duty.

1906. ch. 565.

208B. It shall be the duty of said executive officer to investigate and
report upon the laws of this and other States and cities relating to any
subject upon which he may be requested to so report by the Mayor of Bal-
timore, any Committee of the City Council or the head of any City De-
partment; to accumulate all data obtainable in relation to the practical
operation and effect of such laws; to investigate and collect all available
information relating to any matter which is the subject of proposed legis-
lation by the General Assembly of Maryland, or the City Council of Bal-
timore; to examine acts, ordinances and records of any State or city, and
report the result thereof to the Mayor of Baltimore, any Committee of the
City Council or the head of any City Department requesting the same; to
prepare or advise in the preparation of any bill, ordinance or resolution
when requested so to do by any member of the City Council; to preserve