916 LIBRARIAN—STATE. [ART. 55.

P. G L , (1860,) art 55, sec 8. 1853, ch 36, sec. 7.

9. The librarian shall deliver to each public circulating library
or library association which may make application therefor, one
copy of the laws, journals and documents; provided, there be at
the time of the application more than fifty copies of the volume
applied for in the library.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1868, ch. 387.

10. The Maryland reports shall be distributed by the librarian
in the following manner, that is to say: to the court of appeals,
two copies for the office and one for each of the judges thereof;
to each of the associate judges of the circuit courts of the several
counties, to the chief judge and the associate judges of the
supreme bench of Baltimore city, one copy 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 commis-
sioner of the land office, one copy; to the executive chamber, one
copy; to the library of congress, two copies; to the general
assembly, eight copies; and to the executive department of each
State in the union, one copy.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1852, ch. 351.

11. The remainder of said reports shall be deposited in the
State library.

1870, ch. 272.

12. The sum of five hundred dollars shall be appropriated
annually for the purchase of books and maps for the augmen-
tation of the library, to be expended under the direction of the
committee named in the act of 1870, chapter 272, and their
successors.