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information relating to any matter which is the subject of proposed legisla-
tion by the General Assembly; to examine the acts and records of any State
and report the result thereof to the Governor, any committee of the General
Assembly, or the head of any State Department requesting the same; to
prepare or aid in the preparation of any bill or resolution when requested
so to do by any member of the General Assembly; to preserve and collate
all information obtained, carefully indexed and arranged so as to be at all
times easily accessible to State officials and open to the inspection of the
general public; and to have an office at Annapolis during the sessions of the
General Assembly, in order to facilitate the work of the Department for
members of the General Assembly.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 66. 1912, art. 40, sec. 16. 1916, ch. 474, sec. 2.

102. For the services to be rendered under the provisions of the preced-
ing section, the executive officer of the Department of Legislative Reference
shall receive $1,000 per annum; and there is hereby appropriated an-
nually the sum of $2,500 to provide for the payment of the services of the
said executive officer and of such assistance and expenses as may be neces-
sary in performing the duties imposed by the preceding section, the same
to be. payable on the order of said executive officer.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1924, ch. 377. 1935, ch. 150.

103. It shall be the duty of every officer, board, institution and commis-
sion of the State, including special or temporary officers, boards and com-
missions, to file with the Department of Legislative Reference two copies of
every regular or special report issued by him or it, whether such report
be in printed or other form. Every officer, board, institution and com-
mission of the State is hereby directed to transmit to said Department of
Legislative Reference such number of copies of all reports and publica-
tions issued by him or it as the Director of said Department shall request,
but not to exceed one hundred copies. It shall be the duty of the. Director
of the Department of Legislative Reference to use the copies of the reports
and publications above directed to be delivered to him for exchange with
or distribution to other departments, libraries, historical societies or re-
search agencies, and at least one copy of 'each of such reports and publi-
cations shall be sent by the said Director to the Library of Congress, the
Maryland State Library, the Johns Hopkins University Library, Enoch
Pratt Free Library, Peabody Institute of Baltimore, Maryland Historical
Society and the University of Maryland Library.

Commissioners for Uniform State Laws.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 68. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 45).

104. The Commissioners for Uniform State Laws, appointed as at
present, shall be assigned to the Executive Department. They shall have
and exercise the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions, now or
hereafter conferred by law; and, in addition, shall report to the Governor
before each session of the General Assembly an account of their transac-
tions, and their advice and recommendations in relation to the subjects
confided to them.