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and other data under the jurisdiction and supervision of the
Commission. The Archivist, his assistants, clerks and other em-
ployees shall receive such salary or compensation as may be
recommended by the Commission and provided in the Budget.

87C. It shall be the duty of the Commission to have col-
lected old court records, official documents, records, reports,
old newspapers, church records, private papers and other his-
torical data pertaining to the history of the Province and State
of Maryland from the earliest times, and to have said docu-
ments, records and material properly repaired, filed, indexed,
preserved and, when deemed desirable, copied and or edited and
published; to encourage historical investigation and research in
the history of the State. All papers, records, relics and other me-
morials connected with the early history of Maryland not re-
quired for the necessary operations of any other office, shall be
under the supervision of and belong to said Commission.

87D. The Commission shall have power and authority to
adopt a seal for its official use and business, to adopt rules for
its own governance and to determine the type and character of
records, documents, publications and other data which it will
accept or receive for safekeeping.

The Commission shall have power to acquire by gift, or
to purchase with any funds appropriated or given to it for that
purpose, any records, documents, publications or other material
which it may deem worthy of preservation.

87E. Every State, county, city, town or other public of-
ficial in the State in custody of public records or documents is
hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to turn over
to the Commission and deposit for preservation any original
papers, official books, records, documents,files, newspapers, printed
books, or portraits, not in current use in his office, and when so
surrendered, and accepted by the Commission, copies may be
made and certified under the seal of the Commission upon ap-
plication of any person, which certification shall have the same
force and effect as if made by the officer originally in charge of
same, and the Commission shall charge for such copies the same
fees as such officer is allowed by law to charge, which fees shall
be accounted for and paid into the State Treasury.