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3. The records which you destroy are within the pro-
gram thus established and approved.

If the above procedure is followed, the destruction of
records thus effected is authorized by Section 180 of Article
41, Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Ed.), which takes
precedence over Section 3 of Article 101, which relates, in
general terms, to the preservation of Commission records.

Very truly yours,

JOHN MARTIN JONES, JR.

Asst. Attorney General
JMJ:MH

ACTS OF ASSEMBLY

At the 1960 (short) Session of the General Assembly, there were
several arts passed which are of interest to the Hall of Records. One
of these was sponsored jointly by the Hall of Records Commission, the
Department of Legislative Reference and the Maryland State Library.
It provides that these three agencies be depositories for all local codes,
county and municipal. These codes are published by the local govern-
ments concerned at their expense and until now it was only by courtesy
that copies came into the hands of the three State agencies mentioned
above, all of which need these works, especially since there has been no
statewide Code of Public Local Laws published since 1939. The Act
follows:

CHAPTER 96

(Senate Bill 58)

AN ACT to add a new Section 8B to Article 23A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1959
Supplement), title "Corporations—Municipal" to fol-
low immediately after Section 8A thereof, and to be
under the new sub-title "Municipal Codes"; and to add
a new Section 32A to Article 25 of said Code (1957
Edition), title "County Commissioners", to follow
immediately after Section 32 thereof, and to be under
the new sub-title "County Codes", requiring the
Board of County Commissioners or County Council
of any county, and the Mayor and City Council, by
whatever name known, of every municipal corpor-
ation to make certain deposits of codes or compila-