134 SECRETARY OF STATE. [ART. 85

five days before such sale fully and truthfully answer in writing
each and all of said inquiries.

1900, ch. 579.

19. Except as expressly provided in the preceding section,
nothing therein contained nor any act thereunder shall change or
affect the present rules of evidence in the present presumptions
of law.

ARTICLE LXXXV.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

	6. Shall annually publish a State manual. 7. Of what such manual shall con- sist.	8. How it shall be distributed. 9. Annual appropriation.

State Manual.

1900, ch. 240.

6. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to accurately
prepare and publish annually, on December thirty-first of each
year, a manual of the State of Maryland.

Ibid.

7. Said manual shall consist of not less than fifteen hundred
copies in each year, five hundred of which shall be bound in
cloth and shall contain a copy of the Charter and Constitution of
the State, a complete list of members of the Legislature, with
their postoffice addresses, the names and addresses of all State
and county officers elected by the people, as well as those
appointed by the Governor and the Board of Public Works; a
brief summary of the duties of the several State officers; the
official returns of the State election of each year; a list of State,
educational, charitable, reformatory and benevolent institutions,
with the amounts appropriated to each by the State; the amounts
paid by counties to the public schools of the State on account of
the public school tax; the gross and net debt of the State at the