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Maryland Manual, 1912-13
Volume 123, Preface 4   View pdf image (33K)
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Chapter 240 of the Acts of 1900.

AN ACT to provide for the annual compilation and publication of a
Manual of the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to accurately prepare
and publish annually, on December thirty-first of each year, a Manual of
the State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said Manual shall consist of not less
than fifteen hundred copies in each year, five hundred of which shall be
bound in cloth and shall contain a copy of the Charter and Constitution
of the State, a complete list of Members of the Legislature, with their
postoffice addresses, the names and addresses of all State and county
officers elected by the people, as well as those appointed by the Governor
and the Board of Public Works; a brief summary of the duties of the
several State officers; the official returns of the State election of each
year; a list of State, educational, charitable, reformatory and benevolent
institutions, with the amounts appropriated to each by the State; the
amounts paid by counties to the public schools of the State on account
of public school tax; the gross and net debt of the State at the close of
each fiscal year; the area, population, assessable basis and tax rates in
the several counties of the State and city of Baltimore; the construction
of the Judicial system of this State; the official payroll of the State, and
such other information as in his judgment may seem right and proper.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Manual shall be distributed
as follows: Twenty-five copies, bound in cloth, to the Maryland State
Library; ten copies, two of which shall be bound in cloth, to each of the
Members of the Legislature; one copy to each of the Clerks of the Cir-
cuit Courts of the State and the several courts in Baltimore city; one
copy to each of the Boards of County Commissioners of this State, and
the remaining number to the Executive Department, to be distributed by
the Secretary of State to each of the several States of the Union, to the
public libraries in this and other States, and to officials and citizens of
this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Act, compiling, printing and distributing said Manual,
the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or BO much thereof as may be neces-
sary, is hereby annually appropriated; and the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the State
Treasurer, who is hereby directed to pay same, in favor of the Secretary
of State upon the presentation of proper vouchers by him that the work
above mentioned has been fully done, which vouchers shall be filed in the
office of the State Comptroller.

Approved April 5, 1900.


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