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each for the use of their respective offices; to the clerks of the circuit courts
for the several counties and of the city of Baltimore and the clerk of the
superior court of Baltimore City, the clerk of the court of common pleas,
the clerk of the Baltimore City court, and the clerk of the criminal court
of Baltimore one copy each; to the registers of wills throughout the State
for the use of the registers of wills and orphans' court one copy; to the
commissioner of the land office one copy; to the executive chamber one
copy; to the library of Congress five copies; to the Enoch Pratt Free
Library of Baltimore City two copies; to the general assembly eight copies;
and to the executive department of each State in the Union one copy; to
the comptroller of the treasury, the treasurer of Maryland, the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City, and the state tax commission one copy each, and shall transmit a copy
of each of the volumes of the Maryland reports, as the same have been
or shall hereafter be received, to the library of the bar association of the
District of Columbia, upon condition that the said bar association of the
District of Columbia shall transmit to the state librarian in Annapolis the
past reports of the District of Columbia and of the court of appeals of
the District of Columbia and the current volumes of said District of Co-
lumbia courts as the same shall hereafter be published, and to the librarian
of the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar such copies of the reports,
laws, journals and documents of the State of Maryland of which he may
now have duplicates and of which he may have duplicates from time to
time as new volumes are published, as can be spared from the state library,
not exceeding in each case two copies of such volumes. The remainder
of said reports shall be deposited in the state library.
As to the publication of the Maryland reports, see art. 80, sec. 3.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 82. 1912, art. 55, sec. 12. 1904, art. 55, sec. 12. 1892, ch. 420, sec. 13.

117. The judges of the court of appeals, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorized to appoint a committee of three or more persons to serve
without compensation, who shall have the power and authority to purchase
from time to time such books, maps and periodicals as they may deem
advisable for the use of the state library, and said committee may draw on
the treasurer of the State from time to time for such sums of money as
may be necessary to pay for said books, maps and periodicals, not to exceed,
however; the sum annually appropriated for the augmentation of the state
library.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 83. 1922, ch. 182.

118. The Librarian, with the approval of the Library Committee of the
Maryland State Library, shall have the power and authority to sell from
time to time such books, including the Maryland Reports and Codes, maps
and periodicals, in the State Library, as they consider prudent and desirable
to sell, and the proceeds of such sales, after deducting the expenses incident
thereto, to be paid over to the Treasurer of the State within thirty days
after the receipt thereof; provided no book, map or periodical shall be so
sold if its sale would break a set.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 84. 1912, art. 55, sec. 13. 1904, art. 55, sec. 13. 1892, ch. 420, sec. 14.

119. The said committee are hereby authorized to pass such rules and
regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the conduct and
management of said library; provided such rules and regulations be not
inconsistent with law.