1734                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 672

for the office and one for each of the judges thereof; to the Court
of Special Appeals, two copies for the office and one for each of the
judges thereof; to each of the associate judges of the circuit courts
for the several counties, to the chief judge and the associate judges
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, one copy each for the use
of their respective offices; to the clerks of the circuit courts for the
several counties and of the City of Baltimore and the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, the clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, the clerk of the Baltimore City Court, and the clerk of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, one copy each; to the registers of
wills throughout the State for the use of the registers of wills and
orphans' court, one copy; to the Commissioner of the Land Office,
one copy; to the executive chamber, one copy; to the Library of
Congress, five copies; to the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore
City, two copies; to the General Assembly, eight copies; and to the
executive department of each state in the Union, one copy; to the
Comptroller of the treasury, the Treasurer of Maryland, the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference, the police commissioner of Baltimore
City, and the State Tax Commission, one copy each; and to the li-
brarian of the library company of the Baltimore Bar, such copies
of the published opinions, law [laws], journals and documents of the
State of Maryland of which he may now have duplicates and of which
he may have duplicates from time to time as new volumes are pub-
lished, as can be spared from the State Library, not exceeding in
each case two copies of such volumes. The remainder of said pub-
lished opinions shall be deposited in the State Library and shall be
retained in the State Library or distributed under the direction of
the library committee or may be used by the State Library for ex-
change purposes.

166.

The judges of the Court of Appeals, or a majority of them, are
hereby authorized to appoint a committee of three or more persons
to serve without compensation, who shall have the power and au-
thority to purchase from time to time such books, maps and peri-
odicals as they may deem advisable for the use of the State Library,
and said committee may draw on the Treasurer of the State from
time to time for such sums of money as may be necessary to pay
for said books, maps and periodicals, not to exceed, however, the
sum annually appropriated for the augmentation of the State
Library.

167.

The Director, with the approval of the library committee of the
Maryland State Library, shall have the power and authority to sell
from time to time such books, including the Maryland Reports and
Codes, maps and periodicals, in the State Library, as they consider
prudent and desirable to sell, and the proceeds of such sales, after
deducting the expenses incident thereto, to be paid over to the Treas-
urer of the State within thirty days after the receipt thereof; pro-
vided no book, map or periodical shall be so sold if its sale would
break a set.

168.

The said committee are hereby authorized to pass such rules and
regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the conduct