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CONSTITUTION — ART. VII — SEC. 3.

STATIONERY.

1868, c 70
1870, c 411.
1872, c 211
Stationery to
members

. 9. It shall not be lawful for the State librarian to furnish any
member of the General Assembly an amount of stationery to exceed
in value more than twenty-five dollars, and any member may, at
election, take such amount either in stationery or money, or in
both to said amount.

TITLE VI.
State Librarian.

CONSTITUTION— ARTICLE VII — SEC. 3.
ARTICLE 8. STATE LIBRARIAN.

CONSTITUTION— ARTICLE VII— SEC. 3.

Appointment. 1 Duties
Salary 1 Bond

State librarian.
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Salary $1500.

The State librarian shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold his office during the terra of
the governor, by whom ho shall have been appointed, and until his successor
shall have been appointed and qualified His salary shall be fifteen hundred
dollars a year; and he shall perform such duties as are now, or may hereafter
be prescribed by law; and no appropriation shall be made by law, to pay for any
clerk, or assistant to the librarian • And it shall be the duty of the legislature, at
its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, to puss a law regulating
the mode and manner in which the books in the library shall be kept and ac-

Bond.

counted for by the librarian, and requiring the librarian to give a bond, in
such penalty as the legislature may prescribe, for the proper discharge of his
duties.

STATUTES.
ARTICLE VIII.

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STATE LIBRARIAN:

1 Oaths.
2 Bond, how approved
3 Vacancies, how filled
4 Where library to be kept
5 By whom books may be taken out of library
6 Duties of librarian, distribution of laws, etc
7 Disposition of remaining copies, etc.
8 Distribution to public libraries

9 Distribution of the Maryland Reports.
10 Residue of the Reports
11 Rules for security of public buildings
12 Annual appropriation for purchase of books
and maps
13 Rules for State Library, vacancy in com-
mittee

Art 55, s 1
1852, c 172, s 3
Before whom to
take oath
Id. s 2
1826, c 53, s 3.
Bond

How approved.

1. The State librarian shall take and subscribe before the gov-
ernor the oaths prescribed by the Constitution.
2. He shall give bond to the State of Maryland in such sum, and
with such security, as the committees of the Senate and House of
Delegates on the library approve, for the safe keeping of the books,