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nection with the performance of the duties of his department in extraor-
dinary or, unforeseen cases, or in special local County work. No such
additional assistant counsel shall be employed unless the written request
from the Attorney General to the Governor therefor shall state the necessity
and reasons for such special employment, the compensation to. be paid, and
the source or fund from which the same is to be: paid: If in any case the
Attorney General cannot, ascertain in advance.the proper compensation to
be paid for such services, he shall so certify to the Governor, and in such
case the compensation may be left.for future agreement or adjustment.

An. Code, 1924, sec, 10. 1912, sec. 10. 1916, ch., 560.

¹ 10. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to the Public Service
Commission of Maryland,¹ the Boards of Supervisors of Elections of the
several Counties of the State, the Boards of School Commissioners of the
several Counties of the State, or to any County boards or officers, but the
powers and authority of such boards or officers to appoint, employ or have
their own counsel shall continue as now or hereafter prescribed or author-
ized by law; and notwithstanding anything in this Article contained, the
State reformatories and other State institutions may employ local counsel
to represent them in habeas corpus cases.²

Blue Sky Law.

1937, ch. 348, sec. 10A.

11. No person, firm or corporation, whether resident or non-resident
of this State, except banks and trust companies, whether incorporated
under a general or special Act of the General Assembly, and subject to
regulation by any State or Federal Law, or any member of a National
Securities Exchange registered with the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and the firm of
such member, shall engage in the business of selling, or offering for sale or
exchange, stocks, bonds, notes, shares, profit sharing agreements, service
agreements, membership certificates and trustee certificates, or other se-
curities, in Maryland after October 1, 1937, without having first filed with
the Attorney General a registration statement as: hereinafter provided.
Such registration statement shall be made under oath and shall contain
the same information as now required by the Securities and Exchange
Commission for registration of brokers and dealers transacting business
on the Over-the-Counter Markets, or shall be a certified copy of such
statement actually filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Such applicant shall also furnish the Attorney. General letters of recom-
mendation from at least two persons, residents of this State and engaged
in the business aforementioned, satisfactory to him.

1937, ch. 348, sec. 10B.

12. No form of receipt or certificate shall be issued by the Attorney
General and no person, firm or corporation engaged¹ in the business re-
ferred to in the last preceding section of this Article shall in any manner
advertise or publish or represent, for the purpose of selling stocks, bonds,

¹ See, however, art. 23, sec. 353.

² Sec. 11 of the act of 1916, ch. 560, provides for the repeal of all acts,and parts of acts
in conflict or inconsistent with said act of 1916, to, the extent of such conflict or
inconsistency.