44 FIRST TO FOURTH ANNUAL REPORTS

of official records, documents and publications of the State and
of the several political divisions of the State, and of other his-
torical material or data, and authorizing the officers who are
custodians of such records to deposit same with the Commission
for preservation.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That five new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition)
title "Governor—Executive and Administrative Department/'
to be under sub-title "Hall of Records Commission," said new
sections to be known as Sections 87A to 87E, to follow immed-
iately after Section 87 of said Article, and to read as follows:

87A. There is hereby created a Commission to be known
as the Hall of Records Commission, which shall be composed
of the Governor of Maryland, the State Comptroller, the Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals, the President of the Johns Hop-
kins University, the President of St. John's College, the Presi-
dent of the Maryland Historical Society and the President of
the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore.
The members of said Commission shall serve without compen-
sation.

87B. The Commission shall have supervision and control
of the Hall of Records building and shall have authority to equip
and furnish the said building and to preserve and repair the rec-
ords, documents and archives placed under its supervision, the
cost of same to be paid for out of any unexpended balance re-
maining from the appropriation contained in Chapter 253 of the
Acts of 1931 for erecting and equipping said building, or out of
any funds which may hereafter be appropriated for that pur-
pose.

The Commission shall appoint a competent, qualified per-
son, to be known as Archivist, who shall have charge of the
active management of the building and its contents, provided
that the Commission shall allot and designate a portion of the
building for the use of the Land Office. The Commission shall
employ such assistants, clerks and other employees as may be
necessary for the work of collecting, repairing, indexing, copy-
ing, filing and preserving the records, documents, papers, books