92 LIBRARIAN—STATE. [ART. 55.

Publication of Maryland State Archives.

1906, ch. 50.

17. The sum of two thousand dollars for each year for the
period of two years is appropriated and shall be paid to the
Maryland Historical society out of any funds in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be paid, one
thousand dollars on the first day of June and December of the
years 1906 and 1907.

Ibid.

18. The archives of Maryland published by said society
with the funds thus provided shall, as provided by the act of
1882, chapter 138, be the property of the State; provided,
that said society may purchase such volumes as it wishes for
its members and exchanges at the cost of paper, presswork
and binding, and shall be authorized to sell others at cost; the
proceeds of all sales to be added to the publication fund and
used only therefor; provided further, that ten copies of each
volume of the archives published by said Maryland historical
society shall be bound in cloth and deposited in the State
library for the use thereof; and that the said society is hereby
authorized, without being required to pay therefor, to send a
copy of each of the volumes that have been or may be pub-
lished, to the respective State librarians of the several States
of the Union, and also to each of the circuit courts of the
several counties of the State; to the court of appeals, the land
office, the library company of the Baltimore bar, and such
library or historical association as may be approved by the
Maryland historical society, and said society shall make report
to the next general assembly of the progress of the work and
of all receipts and disbursements under this section.

Approved March 31, 1906.