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receive any compensation for his services as commissioner but each com-
missioner shall be entitled to receive his actual disbursements for his
expenses in performing the duties of his office, not to exceed, however, in
the aggregate the amount of the appropriation to said commissioners made
from time to time in the budget. In case any of the persons so appointed
as above will not undertake the office of this commission or in case of a
vacancy on said board, caused by death, resignation or otherwise, such
vacancy shall be filled by the Governor.

Said board may employ such persons and incur such expenses as may
be necessary in the performance of their duties but the annual expense of
said board shall not exceed such sum as may be appropriated therefor
in the budget.

The said board may, out out¹ its annual appropriation, contribute to
the expenses of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws such sum as they may think proper, not exceeding, however,
Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250. 00) a year.

Said board shall report to the Legislature at each regular session thereof
an account of its transactions and its advice and recommendations, as
required by this section.

State Librarian.

An Code, 1924, art 41. sec. 77. 1912. art. 55, sec. 7. 1904, art. 55, sec. 1.

1888, art. 55. sec. 7 1853, ch. 36, sec. 6. 1868, ch. 387.

1935, ch. 34, sec. 77.

77. He shall have bound the laws, journals and documents of the
General Assembly and shall distribute and forward the same when bound,
under the direction of the governor, to the persons entitled by law to
receive the same, that is to say: to the governor of the State of Maryland
one copy of each; to the comptroller, treasurer, commissioner of the land
office, each one copy of the laws; to the court of appeals one copy of the
laws for the office of the clerk and one copy for each judge; to the library
of Congress eight copies of the laws and two copies of the journals and
documents; to the Department of Legislative Reference two copies of
each for the use of the Department and forty-eight copies of the laws for
exchange with other States; to the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore
City two copies of each; to the executive department of each State and
Territory of the Union one copy of the laws, documents and journals;
to the directors of the Maryland penitentiary one copy of the laws; to the
mayor and city council of Baltimore two copies of the laws; to the chief
judge and each of the associate judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore
City one copy of the laws; to the clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more city, the clerk of the court of common pleas, the clerk of the circuit
courts of Baltimore city, the clerk of the criminal court of Baltimore,
and the clerk of the Baltimore city court one copy of the laws for the
use of their respective offices and three copies of the journals and docu-

¹ "Of" evidently intended.