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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 408.

AN ACT to subscribe for copies of Gans' Digest of

Maryland Statutes and Decisions on Criminal Law,

and to regulate the distribution thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the state librarian be and he is

hereby authorized and directed to subscribe in the

name of the State for three hundred copies of the

Digest of Maryland Statutes and Decisions on Crimi-

Librarian to

nal Law, prepared by Edgar H. Gans, at three dollars

subscribe.

per copy, and the treasurer is hereby authorized and

required, on the warrant of the comptroller, which he

shall issue on receipt of a certificate from the state

librarian that the said copies have been delivered to

said librarian, to pay the said Edgar H. Gans the sum

of nine hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That copies of the said

Digest shall be distributed as follows : To the court of

appeals, one copy 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 each of the associate judges of the court

of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, one copy; to

the clerk of the criminal court of Baltimore, one

copy; to the clerks of the circuit courts for the several

How to be dis-

counties, each one copy; to the attorney-general, one

tributed.

copy; to the state's attorney of the several counties,

each one copy, and to the police justices of Baltimore

city, each one copy, and the remainder to be kept in

the library, to be distributed or exchanged under the

direction of the library committee appointed under

the act of eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter two

hundred and seventy-two; provided that at least

twenty-five copies be retained in the state library,

unless otherwise distributed by an act of the general

assembly.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.