EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 727

CHAPTER 353.

AN ACT to provide for a State subscription to Perkins' Anno-
tated Maryland Reports, providing for the distribution
thereof, and an appropriation therefor.

WHEREAS, The Legislature of 1914, by Senate Bill 103,
Senate Journal 186, and passed the House, House Journal
page 3434, approved too late to be printed in the Laws of
1914, enacted in the precise language hereinafter set forth in
Sections 1 and 2, that the State Librarian shall subscribe, in
the name of the State, for fifty sets of Perkins' Annotated
Maryland Reports, bound in buckram, at four dollars per
volume, and

WHEREAS, Some of the Courts and Public Offices of this
State are not provided with sets of said Reports; and no sets
are in the State Library available for distribution; and

WHEREAS, Said edition has been recommended by a ma-
jority of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, by a majority
of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Courts, and the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore City, and

WHEREAS, Said fifty sets have been delivered to the State
Library in the year 1914, but not yet paid for, therefore,

. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the State Librarian be, and she is hereby au-
thorized and directed to subscribe, in the name of the State,
for fifty sets of Perkins' Annotated Maryland Reports of 81
volumes each, bound in buckram, at four dollars per volume,
and upon the delivery, of fifty copies of each volume to the
State Library, the Librarian shall issue a certificate of the re-
ceipt thereof, and upon the presentation of such certificate, the
Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue his
warrant for the sum of two hundred dollars to the order of
the publisher, and the sum necessary for the payment of the
said fifty sets is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the State Librarian shall
distribute one set of said Reports to each of the Several Courts
of the City of Baltimore, and of the State, not at present sup-
plied with such Reports, one set to the General Land Office,
two sets for the office of the Attorney General, and one set to
each of the State's Attorneys Offices of the respective counties
of the State and Baltimore City, and said sets to remain the
property of the State of Maryland.