CHAPTER III Legislative Reference Services Qf the States STATE \0F JLJBJMA f
: ' ; HISTORY the staff devotes full time td legislative ref erence, service and no temporary staff mem The Alabama Department of Archives bers are employed. and History has existed since February 27, -1901 as an agency for centralization of LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED . official reco.rds and organization of historical material. It has alwaysJjeen active-as a Department o-j Arc/iives :and History reference agency for state legislators and The Department .undertakes reference public officials, but ife,was hot until ^larch service and supplies material for the mem- 5, 1907 that the Department .was officially ^bersof the legislature or state officials but given the additional function of legislative very little actual legislative research work reference work. The Alabama legislature is carried on. Should a legislator become . has not made any provision for the brgaai- interested in a certain subject the depart zation of a legislative reference bureau nor ment would attempt to secure all the in has it. made any special appropriation for formation possible both by. searehmg the the maintenance of such an orgaViization. indexes of the material on hand and by • writing to other sources of information. The V L.MVS AND AMENDMENTS^ department drafts bills on request of legis - Legislative reference service was^t/.up lators. It publishes quadrenially the Ala-, as a function of the Department of ArcVves bama Official and Statistical Register which and History by the Alabama Actsrbf'1^07, is considered an outstanding work of its' .Number 255, page 318,'which provided that kind. The book contains biographical data the department "shall bring together akd on all of the Alabama legislators and much; arrange for ready consultation a reference Interesting statistical material pertaining collection of materials for.the use of the to the state. members of the legislature, state officers,^ and others on all subjects which froni time, Attorney-generaUs Office . to time may be deemed of public interest The attorney-general and his- assistants' and importance to, the people of the state.'' eiagage in bill drafting diiring legislative ses sions upon tlfe request, of nlembers of the :,; ORGANIZATION reg.iislature and other state officials. Legislative reference service is a func tion of .the Department of Archives and Supreme Court Library ...... History; The director of the Department Th^, Law Librarian renders library serv- is appointed for a six year term--the pres- ice to legislators No legislative reference :• ertt one ending iMarch 1, 1.937—by a Bpard staff is employed of. Trustees cdmposecl of nine members, one from each of nine congressionaLdis- PERSONNEL trict.s in the state. The members of the Director, Department oj Archives and His- staff are appointed for indefinite terms by /o;-y,^LARiE B. OWEN the director with the approval of the Board Education: Graduate, Ward's Seminary, of Trustees. None of the-six members of Nashville, Tennessee. .. 20S
<• •• &. - LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 209 Offices: Editor, Women's vSection,Mont Archives and History. All such/material gomery Advertiser, 1910-17. Director, has its place in the general library;, which is State Department of Archives and His catalogued according to the Dewey Deci tory since. 1920. mal System. The Department .has col Author: Yvonne oj Braithwaitc, 1927. lected appt^-ximately 200,000 ^volumes, in .Our State—Alabama', 1927. Editor, cluding aiarge number of state and federal Alabama Historical Quarterly. documents, reports, pamphlets and circii- .Member: Press and Authors. Pilot. lars. The material is filed by subject. .Business and Professional Women's Club. ' Daughters of the American Revolution. Other Available Library Collections • United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Department' has immediate access Married: ThomasM. Owen (deceased). to the Supreme Court Library which con Residence: 1201 South •MacDonough tains a fairly complete collection of state Street, Montgomery. reports and statutes and a complete set of Office: State House^ ]Montgomery. .Alabama Acts, together with the Alabama Supreme Court Reports. There are also copies of legal texts and indexes.
Office Facilities . FINANCES Legislative reference service is ah inte The annual appropriation for the Ala gral part of the Alabama Department of bama Department of Archives and History Archives and History which is" located in for the fiscal year 1933-19,34 was .i; 16,495. the State House. The location of the De The fact that no segregation of expenditures partment is convenient to both houses.of within the Department is avaiK'ible makes the Legislature, and adequate for all pres it. impossible to estimate wfiat part of this, ent requirements. . . i was chargeable to the legi^ilative reference work. - For similar reasons it is impossible . Library Material tobreak down the expenditures into salaries There is no separate accumulation of leg and other cdsl^s. of legislative reference islative material in the Department of work. •
STJTE OF ARIZONA
• , HISTORY LAW AND.A-MEND.MENTS. - Arizona began its legislative reference ' The Stute: Library Was established by work in, 1915 as a result of an act concerning .Vrizona, Acts, 1915, Chapter.62, page 132, the organization of the:state library ap The duties of j^e legislative reference proved on March 24.of that year. The bureau were set fortlHl)y an .Act of the 1917 director of the State Library is known as Legislature, Section 3036. . ' the State Law and Legislative Reference "Section 3036; Legislative reference bu- Librarifin. The Librarian is not only re , reau. There shall be maintained in the quired to render legislative reference serv- /State library a legislative reference bureau ices'but also upon request, to "aid and- for the use and information of the mem t^ssist the members of the legislature, the bers of the legislature, the heads of de governor and the heads of departments as partments of state, and citizens of the to bills and resolutions and drafting the state. The librarian shall prepare, . . . same into proper form," Although statu checklists and catalogues of Arizona law, tory authorization is ample, no funds have • and all the current legislation of Arizona ever been provided for the special develop and other states; lists ofbills and resolu ment of the Reference Bureau. .It has tions presented in either branch of the functioned merely as an incidental feature legislature, and of the public documents of the Library's activities. of the state, including all reports issued 210 THE BOOK OF THE STATES by the departments, boards and commis Educatjjon-:-High.School; Specialized in sion; digests of the public laws of this newspaper trade education; and other states, catalogues, files and Offices: Editorial writer, 1896-1912. clippings of new^o.ipdrs, and other •Meniber, Arizona Senate, 1917-29, Presi printed matter; ana v\'hen requested by dent of the Seriate, 1923-29. Member, the governor, heads of departments,:or' members of the legislature, procure in formation relating to pending legislation B^ptv' -' ' ^v^^^H and aid the members of the legislature |^<^;^\.- :, Y^H and state officers in the drafting of bills iMULFORn and resolutions for the legislature.. . . He AVlXSOR shall establish with the federal govern ^^^H SIT* -^^H ment, the other states and foreign coun- ^^^^^htilL '' '.^^^H Line & ;•• . tries a system of exxhange of official state ^^H^'. - 'HC' '^^^M publications, law, statutes, journals, su Legislative preme court reports and digests thereof." ^^^B^i Reference PvTjL ^^^ :- ORGANIZATION . Librarian ;• The Law and. Legislative Reference Li brarian is appointed for an indefinite term by the Board of Curators of the State Li
brary. This board consists of^three mem ffWffrWIit"' 11.11 • Bi 1 1 ' 1 bers appointed by the. GoVeriu-. and the Law aiid Legislative Reference^ Librarian' Arizona Constitjfitional Convention. 1910. acts as secretary, ex-officio. Members rf Chairman, Committee on Rules; Chair the .library staff are appointed' by the Li man Committee on Legislative Distribu brarian for indefinite terms./ None of them tion of Powers and 'Apportionment. Sec devotes full time to legislative reference retary to Governor George \V. P. Hunt Work. Additional clerical help is employed of Arizona, 1912. Secretary of Arusyha during legislative sessions. Land Commission, 1912-15. Secretary of Colorado River Coiiimission, 1927-29.- LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED Librarian, State Library since 1932. The Arizona Bureau,has undertaken no Resmence: 1522 Xv. Washington Street, 'intensive research work and has issued no . Phaenix. / publications.: It attempts to' answer all 'O^/rr: State Library, State House, legislative inquiries and to supply to legis •...Phoenix. V , f . • lators upon request such information on leg Assistant Librarian, MARJOIUK A. BAKER islative subjects as the Library affords. Even in the absence of special funds for Secretary, ALICE B. Goon regular service the accumulation of'^the es LIBRARY FACILITIES sential material for an effective legislative • reference library has been started.' Much Office Facilities of the material purchased primarily for The Legislative Reference Division is legislative work is allowed to circulate.:. As housed in the State Library which occujiics sistance is also rendered, to students of leg part of the State House. Eacilities are ade-. islative subjects and. to individuals collect:^ quate at present but there is no room for ing data for the preparation of legislative expansion. Nearly $3,000 has been^ spent measures. Bills are prepared for-members on office equipment, furniture and fixtures of the Legislature upon request. The pres during the last three years. The Library is ent Law and Legislative Reference Librarian convenient to both tht/ House and/Senate is making an attempt to re-in,terest the mem chambers.- ' ' bers of the Legislature in this work. Library j\Iatcrial PERSONNEL . • The Legislative Reference Division files- Law and Legislative Reference Librarian, contain .6 reference services, 15 periodicals,' MULFORD WiNSOR . 177 books, 50 scrap book collections, ami' LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 211
930 current pamphlets, all of which are dis FINANCES/ tinctively legislative reference material and The total expenditures for the State Li used chiefly Ipv that purpose. This material brary of Arizona for the last five years-r- is all a part of the State.Library and classi July 1 to June,30—are given below: fied under the Dewey Decinial System, but : E.xpenditures for the legislative reference is, of course, especially accessible for legisla service cahnoijjie segregated except for cer tive reference purposes. tain limiteci amounts which can be easily identified. During the fiscal year 1933-34 Other Available Library Collections approximately ten per cent of the expendi The other materials of the State Library ture for books, subscriptions, pamphlets,^ including the general material and a well etc went for material that would not have equipped collection of legal, materials of been purchased were a legislative reference various kinds are all immediately available service not maintained. That expenditure to the Legislative. Reference Department. would amount to :^309.54. ..
1929-30 • . 1930-31 -1931-32 1932-33 1933-34. Salaries . $7,200.00 ?7,200.00 57,461.52 $8,l-05,.i4* :i;7,518.90 Operation . 395.37 .450.00. 1,236.17 562.52 . 1,060.43 Travel 479.11 470.00 193.81 Repairs & Replacements 250.00- '. 20;02. 598.18** ^ - 150.23 Books, Subscp. •e & Binding ,5,837.44 .• .5,981.00 4,601.47 5.912.07*** .3,651.55 Furn, & Fix. - • 2,467.54 251.9c .. 325-.45^ 'I Total • . '$13)911.92. $14,351.00 $15,980.33 $15,429.86; $12,706.56. * $605.14 out of a special appropriation for legislative work. **. 70.00 out ofa special appropriation for legislative work. *** 374.86 out of a special appropriation for legislative work, $1,050.00 ;••'•• 7 .;..:;'.-'•• • ' "..^ ..^ .•.':"'••••./- -^ '•..••
ST J TE OF AR KANSAS
; / • ' . 'HISTORY ..:•'•'' ORGANIZATION / .. The Arkansas Legislative Reference Li The Arkansas History Commission is brary w^ first organized as a bureau of the composed of nine members, six of whom are Arkansas History Commission by an act ap appointed by the Governor for terms of proved March 21, 1917. An act of 1921 \2 years;-three members.are ex-dfficio (the slightly altered the status but left the Bu Chief Justice of Supreme Court, President, reau working under the supervision of the of State University and President of the History Commission. The Arkansas Legis Teacher's Gpllege). The Commission has lative Reference Library did good, work under its supervision botli th/^ .Arkansas until the constant: curtailment of funds Department of Archives and History iincl made it largely inactive. the Legislative Reference Library. The executive., officer of the Commission is the LAWS AND AMENDMENTS • Secretary and he is appointed by it for an The Arkansas Legislative Reference Li indefinite term. He acts as director of both brary was created as a bureau of the Ar departments and devotes some- of his time kansas History Commission by tliejArkansas to legislative reference work. No tempo Laws of March 17,1917.. The only amend rary staff members are employed during ment was made in 1921. * .sessions of the legislature. /- .212 THE BOOK OF THE STATES
• LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED sas; High Lights of Arkansas History; Gonsiderable information on ^ubject^ of . Why Little Rock was Born; Legislative legislative interest has been gathered by the and Executive Outline, and so forth. Legislative Library and has been so ar • Married: 1923. ranged as to make it readily accessible to • Residence: Little Rock, Ar\ka.nsas: members of the General Assembly and other Oj7?ce; State Capitol, Little Rock, Ar-, state officials. f^A real attempt is made to • kansas; - furnish legislators with information con LIBRARY FACILITIES cerning legislation in other states. The li Office Facilities brary maintains a file of all the bills intro-' The Legislative Reference Library to- duced in the General Assembly. gelher'with the Department of History and Bill drafting is not performed by the Leg Archives is located on the third and fourth islative Reference Library but by the At floors of the Capitol building. The library torney General upon the request of the in has sufficient space and adequate facihties dividual legislators. and.is very convenient to both the Senate PERSONNEL ' . and House chambers: Secretary, DR. DALLAS T. HERNDON ..':Library Material Education: A. B., Alabama Polytechnic The material making up the legislative Institute, Auburn, 1902. M. S., Ala- reference library is not separate from that ; bamaPolytechnic Institute, 1903. Ph.lj., of the Department of History and Archives. llniversity of Chicago, 1911. ' '•• Together they contain all the official publi ; Offices: Secretary, Arkansas History cations of the state departments and such departmental reports, documents, etc., of other states as may be acquired. In ad dition to the state documents and reports the usual pamphlets, periodicals, .articles DR. DALLAS T. and circulars on governmental subjects are collected and: indexed by the De\vey Deci-''^ HERNDON malSystem. ^ . Secretary—Dcpt. ••• FINANCES • It is not possible to estimate the expendi oj Archives and ture for legislative reference services as the Hist or \> : accounts are not kept separately. The bi-/ ennial expenditures of the Department b' .History„.ancl Archives together with the Legislative Reference Library for 1931-32 and 1933-34. were as follows: • ; 1931-32 : J 933-34 -Commission and Director, Department of Salaries $9,600.00 $5,160.00 Public Archives'and. History since j,911. Books, etc., Membdr: American Library Association. miscellaneous 1,400.00 1,210.00 Author; Centennial History of Arkan Total $ 1 a,000.00 $6,3 70.00 •
STATE. OF CAMFORNIA
.. ; " HISTORY reau was established by an act approved May 26, 1913. This act was amended in Legislative Counsel Bureau 1913, 1915, 1917 and 1931 to provide for The CaHfprrila Legislative Counsel Bu a bureau which is entirely different from LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 213 that in any of the states with the possible Laiv and Legislative Reference Section exception of Massachusetts. It is primarily of the State Library a bill drafting agency yet undertakes legis^r lative. research and revision services as well. The Law and Legislative Reference Sec- . In fact since 1913 it has grown steadily tion is a, part of the California State Li until it is now one of the foremost of the brary. It is directly under the.supervision legislative reference, bureaus in, the United of a department librarian who is appointed States. The Bureau operates in close co by the State Librarian from civil service operation with the Legislative Reference lists for an indefinite term. The members Section of the State Library, w:hich has also of the departmental staff are similarly become a very active legislative research chpseh. Two librarians devote full time to agency. , .. legislative reference service'. No temporary staff members are employed.
Law and Legislative Rejerence Sectioti LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED pj the State Library By the Bureau The Law and Legiskitive Reference Sec The, Counsel Bureau is primarily a bill tion of the State Library was created in . draftiug agency though it engages in legis-'' 1904. It was not established by any spe lative research as a necessary adjunct. The cific provision of the law, but. Under general Bureau assists in the preparation of all. powers given the State Library to create types of proposed legislation upon the re-if subordinate departments. No attempt is quest of members of the legislature, the ; made to duplicate or rival the >yor.k of the Governor, or the" various administrati^^^,? " Legislative Counsel Bureau. , - state departments, and advises them on the ' • constitutionality and the legal effect of LAWS AND AMENDMENTS ' . pending legislation and of legislation that ^ has been enacted. At the end of the first Legislative Coimscl Bureau .half.of each legislative session, the Bureau ^ The Counsel Bureau wa.5 established by prepares a digest of all bills introduced at • a California Act of 1913, Chapter 322,. page that part of the session. The need for stat 626. By amendments the Lpsislative utory revision, and amendment or repeal Counsel Bureau was required to do legis of obsolete law-s is brought to the attention ':0L- lative research and otherwise to expand its of thajlegislature by the Bureau. It also functions, (California, Act'i, 1917, Chapter cooperates w^ith proponents of all initiative 727, p. 1398.*) the California-StmuteS of measures by preparing bills upon the written 1931 amended Section i of the original act, request of twenty-five or', more qualified of 1.913, to provide that the Legislative .electors. Bills are preparedWamended by Counsel shall be appointed by the Lfgisla- the Bureau at the suggestion.of any judge ture rather th'^n the Governor. of the Supreme Court, of the District Courts - of Appeals, of the Superior Court of the ORGANIZATION State, or of any committee of either the- <.'7> Senate or the Assembly of the Legislature. Lecislative Counsel Bureau --'•, The Legislative Coun5el is required to be. The Legislative Counsel Bureau is a sep^. ^-in atteiidarice during "legislative sessions., arate agency set iip directly under the Leg -At'^^'e request, of the Governor, it.assists ' islature. The Legislative Counsel is ap him during the tfiirty^'day period allowed pointed by the Legislature" for a two year for the.disposal-of all bills, The Counsel term which, begins shortly after January Bureau usually digests the bills .so that tlie [. first of odd numbered years and the mem Governor may more easily consider them. bers of the staff are appbiii.t,ed by him and .From time to:tinie the Bureau prepares;for. serve during his pleasure. The Legislative the^ various, departments pamphlets . con- Counsel and three assistants devote full Taining.,th€ compiled laws relating to that time to the service. Fr'i!'i six to fifteen de|5artment. The Legislq,tive Counsel has temporary staff members are employed du&.; completed a.report on methods for com- ;': ing legislative sessions. failing state laws. It also publishes an an- •
'/. 214 THE BOOK OF THE STATES nual report of activities performed, .io ad Law and Legislative Reference Section dition to editing and indexing the biennial Law and Legislative Reference Librarian, statutes. HERBERT V. CLAYTON • ^ Education: LL.R., Washburn College By the Reference Section . School of Law, Topeka, Kansas. Offices: Various positions vviLh the Kan As before stated, the Law and Legislative sas State Library, 1900-20. Police Judg?, Reference Sectioii of the State Library and Oakland, Kansas, 1908-09. Assistant Li the Legislative Counset Bureau are very brarian, Camp Fiinston, Kansas, 1917-18. closely coordinated so that duphcation is Librarian, Camp Sherman, Ohio,. 1920- reduced to a minimum. The Reference MTT'Librarian, Kern County Law Library Section collects, catalogue^ and arranges • and Assistant Librarian, Kern County ail procurable material upon legislative sub Free Library, Bakersfield, California, jects. The Section is not only-an invalu 1921-22. Law and Legislative Reference able aid to the Legislative Counsel in mat Librarian, CaHforniaStateLibrary 1922-, ters of legislative research; it also conducts researches for legislators and department heads, procuring all information that is not • .^''^•JSia^i\ irnmediately available."" A file of all bills ^T^ "r introduced into the legislature is indexed-^by HERBERT V. subject and' kept up to date so that their legislative travel may be followed easily. Di-, CLAYTON gests and compilations of state and foreign e'' ' jJf'' Law & laws on certain-subjects are made for the - --iSK^^3 B pff -^"iitm^ .' use of members of the legislature. The Sec • Legislative tion issues fewSpublicatioris—it does piib- • .^ijg^ ^Bfec lish ^e-legislativeHi^dbook—and does no Reference bill driiiting, the latteNjeiJig entirely within Librarian the province of the Legislative Counsel Bu- reaufi 7;
:PERS( Legislative tpiinsel Biireait; Member: California State Bar. Ameri can Library Association. American As-. ^Legislative: COZ/M^CZ/FRED B. .WOOD . sociation of La\V. Libraries.. California £rf«co7/c»w;;,: A.B.,Leland Stanford Uni Library Association. : versity, -1910. J.D., Leland Stanford Clubs\and Organizations: Masons, Odd . University, 1912. • Fellows. Council of Sacramento Federa Offices: Actiye law prattice, 19.12-14. tion of\Churches.' California State Em- Assistant Legislative Counsel, State of ployees\Association. Sacramento Moun California, 1914-22. Legislative Coun-» taineers; sel since 1927. ' - il/flmec?; Ella Foley. . Member: Secretary, California Home Residence: .3140 Second Avenue,'Sac- "Rule Commission, 1930. Secretary, Gali- . ramento. . v - " _iornia Constitutional Revision Commis Office: State Library, Sacramento. sion, 1930. Secretary, California Code Assistant. Law. and Legislative. Reference Commission since 1930; Librarian^ ZILLA A. GRANT Married: AliceL. Satterthwaite. Residence: 2209 Vine Street, Berkeley, .LIBRARY FACILITIES . California. Legislative Counsel Bureau . Office: State Capitol, Sacra,mento. . * Office Facilities V ..Chief Deputy Counsel, J. J. HAMLYN; JR. The headquarters of the counsel'bureaii Deputy Counsel, ROBERT E. REED are located on the'second floor of the State ••.-••• • • . I Research Assistant, THOMAS S. DABAGH Capitol at the' extreme South end of the m^- • ITW* LEG I SLA T'lVE REFER ENCE SERVICES 21.5 building immediately next to the Senate part of the third floor of the State Library • chambers and across the building, from the .Building. It is entirely adequate as to Assembly chamlDers. The quarters consist floor space and equipment. The building is of two rooms approximately 30 by 15 feet moddrn and satisfactorily lighted and venti each; one roomhouses the Legislative Coun-- lated.-Since the State Library Building is sel and two assistants; the other, the sten across the street from the State Capitol, the ographic and clerical staff. During the leg^ Law and Legislative Section is not in close islative.sessions three rooms on the fourth proximity to the Assembly and Senate floor are available for temporary staff mem Chambers. This arrangement is incon bers. The assistant counsels are located in venient both for the legislators and for the; one large non-partitioned room while the Legislative Counsel Bureau \^hieh:-^fre- stenographers us? two small rooms. The *qaently has occasion .^to use Stat-el Library, space is not adequate for efficient work and materials. ^. the location of the staff on two different floors during legislative sessions is particu Library Materials larly inconvienient. : There are approximately 65,000 volumes .• "' Library Material in the Law and Legislative Reference Sec tion of the State Library. The periodicals, The Legislative Counsel Burea;u does not research reports, and pamphlets are in accumulate nor maintain aTr€ference h- cluded in the general library count. In brary but such materials as the California the-cataloging of its material the law sub Reports, current decisions, California Juris ject headings used are in the main those prudence, and miscellaneous periodicals and used and recommended by the Law Li- . pamphlets are to.be found in the offices. brary of. Congress. Legal and legislative.opinions, the results of research studies, all correspondence since 1927,, as well as all unbound materials, are Other Available Collections classified and indexed. The Law and Legislative Reference Sec tion is next to the General Reference Sec Other A vailable. Collections tion and on the same floor with the Govern The Law and Legislative Reference Sec ment Doci^ments Section. The Legislative ' tion of the State Library is housed in the Section draws up)on the entire State Library. Library Building across the street from the collection which includes books in all classes state Capitol Buildinig. The service and. except fiction. Through a very complete the material of this Section of the State inter-library loan system in the state, it Library as well as that of a.11 other sections also has access to material in other libraries are.at all times immediately available for and it borrows frequently from the large the use of the Legislative Counsel Bureau. universities.
Law and Legislative Reference Section .•:^-- r. ', FINANCES. •' • of the State Library . ' • Legislative Counsel Bureau
> - ,••• • ••• • • '.• :•.'I '•-:• • '' Office Facilities : -. The total expenditures of the California The. Law and Legislative Reference Sec 'Legisiative Counsel B.uireaU for the last , tion is located in a room occupying a large , two biennia are as follows:
1931-32 1-933-34. Salary & Wages $46,561.03 , $43,270.24 Material & Supplies 1,403.94' . : 1,175.00 Service & Expense 3,640.11 :• 2,538.00- Equipment 528.67 • V 350.00 Total $52,133.75 $47,333.24 V 216 THE BOOK OF THE STATES Law arid Legislative Reference Section Legislative Reference-Seetiorrof-the State 0/ the State: Library : library fofthe last-ftscal year are sepa- . . '• • : • rated by two classifications only. They are ^iThe total expendituries of the Law and as follows: • 1929-30 1931-32 1933-34 Salaries, $10,998.37 $11,385.00- $5,700.00 .Books. & Continuations: 12,010.74" 10,775.12 .5,674.72 ' Total $23,00941. $22,160.12 $11,374.72:
STATE OF GOT: OR ADO
• HISTORY -^ agency which will reduce, the present num- . In 49^37 the University of Colorado, dn ber of laws by recommending repeals in ;the invitation of the Colorado General As suitable cases, which reduces the bulk of sembly, sent a main, trained in law, to the the remaining statutes by recommending capital to carry oirteg^islative reference serv- . condensations and codifications, which will sice; during legislative -sessions only. The improve; the statement of laws by assisting arrangement was continued through the in the skillful drafting of acts, which will sessions of 1915 and 1917, • Both library bring about the more scientific preparation and drafting, services were maintained dur of laws by rendering the best technical ad ing the three bifennial sessions. This serv vice and information more readily available ice died out after 1917 and several attempts to legislators . . . and is hereby established to revive it failed. In 1923, Governor as a part of the Attorney General's De Sweet recommended -that an official legis partment," Colorado Session Laws, 1927,' lative reference bureau be set up but no Chapter 124. ..., . action was taken, on the recommendatibn. ORGANIZATION Agitation continued until 1927 when,the present Colorado Legislative Reference Of The Legislative Reference Office is an fice was created as a division of the Office integraLpart of the Attorney General's De of the Attorney General by an act :of the partment andvvas, in fact, partially designed General Assembly. A director was not ap to relieve the Attorney General's 'staff of V pointed nor funds provided until June,' the bill drafting functions, and partially de 1930, arid the Office inaugurated its service signed to supply other legislative reference with.the convening of the 1931 General services not previously available. The Di Assembly, With the experience of only two rector is appointed for an indefinite time; legislative sessions beliind it, the Coldraclo by the Attorney. General subject to the ap- , Office is rapidly niaking a place, for itself proval of the Governor. The staff of the among the foremost bureaus of the country. Legislative Reference Office is'^ppointed The excellent start wasVdue largely 'to the by the Director for indefinite terms from ability of its_ former director, Mr. Allen civil service.lists^ The director and secre- IVIoore, who was appointed in September, tai^y.devote full tim0 to legislative reference 19.30. Mr. Moore left the Bureau July 1, service and are assisted by temporary staff 1934 to accept an. ^appointment with the members during legislative sessions. The National Recovery j\dministration.' The Attorney General furnishes two assistants office of Director is now ably filled by to aid in billdrafting during sessions. • Charles H. Queary, who" was appointed Novenaber 15, 1934, .. LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED 'The Legislative Office collects books, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS pamphlets, periodicals- documents, and ~^ The ^^olorado Legislativef 'Reference Of^ other literature relating to prospective or fice was created "in order to provide ain pending legislation.- It keeps on file useful -31*
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 217 records concerning the proceedings of the First Lielitenant, Chemical Warfare Re- General Assembly. Data is accumulated . serve.; ' ^^ •• ^ ' • ',- ' '.- • On and study is made of the practical op Married: Melba Meller. , \ "}. eration of statutes in Colorado and in other Residence: Ibis Elm Street, Denver. , states. A systematic study is mad^of the Office: ,251 State Capitol, Denver."; Colorado statutes in order to recommend, Secretary, CLAIR T. SIPPEL : / . •"• the repeal of obsolete statutes and to codify, .•':•'»• .•-••' ••'.•'•••••. reconcile, and condense the others. The •LIBRARY iF.-^ciLiTiEs office maintains an inquiry service and: co Office Facilities operates with other legislative reference bu Ky^' reaus and organizations. Upon written re The Colorado Legislative .Reference Of- quest of the Governor or.any member of ..fice occupies one small room on tjie second the General Assembly the office drafts bills, floor of the Capitol Building. It is midway resolutions and amendmeftts thereto; ad between the House and Senate chambers vises as to the constitutionality or probable and directly across the • area^vay. from .the effect of proposed legislation; prepares sum State Law Library. Its location is perfect - maries of existing laws affected by proposed but the office is- far too small. It is possible legislation and advises the governor, if h*^: that ^the office will be transferred across the so requests, in respect to any bill which is hall to a much larger room now; occupied before' him for signature. A subject in^ex by the Supreme Court Reporter and im of all bills introduced into the: Coldrado mediately adjoining the Law Library. Both General Assembly and a progress c'ard on offices' are inadequately provided with .of each bill is maintained in order that any- fice furniture and filing cases. The light 'one may know-exactly where a particular ing and heating facilities are excellent. bill is at a particular time. Between ses- 'sions of the General Assembly the Office Library Materials is occupied in answering inquiries and mak It is impossible to estimate how much * ing compilations and researches on subjects material ..the .Office has collected during its ; likely to be of interest during the forth four years in operation. None has been in- - coming session. The .various special com dexed or filed because the necessary funds mittees appointed by the Governor, Atfefer- have been lacking. No attempt is made ney General knd General Assembly ^ave to duplicate materials which are to be; been granted the facilities of the LegisMive found-in the State Library. It is expected Office. that a considerable reference library will be built up. ;'. PERSOISINEL •-; vl/ZorMcy Gc«crfl/, PAULP. PROSSER. Other Library Collections Available . Director, Legislative Reference Office, The Colorado Office has immediate access CHARLES.H.QuEARY to the State. Law Library which is across';,. Education: A.B., University of Denver, the hall from it and to the State Library •Denver, Colorado,' 1917. LL.B., We,st- which is one floor above it. The Law Li- ' minster Law School, Denver, Colorado, brary has the finest collectfon of legal .docu •• 1929.:.••• '•'•..:-,,/•/^•''•- ••,. . ments in the state aiid is a great aid to the . Offices: Clerk of Justice COurt^City'& Legislative Office,.but the State Library,is County of Denver, 1929-193:2. Practice not particularly useful for legislative ref-. of Law, Denver, 1932. Assistant Attor- erende work. The library of the Cify and •ney Generalj State of; Colorado, 1933- County of Denver is available but rarely 1934. .Director, Legislative Reference used_, J ,^Office, 1934- • V '^Member: BeiSL Theta Pi, National So , FINANCES .• cial Fraternity; Sigma Delta Chi, Na . Since a director has ncit served, for the. tional ^ JournaHstic Fraternity;- Sigma last full fiscalyear, it is difficult to do. more Delta Kappa, National Legal Fraternity ;• than generalize as to the total e.xpenditures A.F.;&A;]\I.; American Legion; U.S..A,., of the Colorado Legislative Reference Office. :. Base Hospital, Twenty-ninth Division,, e director vyas paid a salary of ^3*600 .
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218 THE BOOK OF THE STA TES per year in 1931-32. The secretary was of the office. Norrlrally the total expendi- pald $1,500 annually an^ $750 was allowed, ture would be approximately $10,000 per. for the contingent and incidental expenses biennium.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
, HISTORY 1907—at which time the state library leg islative service work was increased—rthe > Legislative Reference Department General Assembly of the State of Connecti The legislative reference work of the cut has made a special appropriation: bien Connecticut State I^ibrary is one of the nially. many functions of the state librarian.^ This service was started by George S. Godard, Bill Drafting and Statute Revision state librarian, and a number of trained V Commissioner assistants prior to 1907. It has gradually increased in scope of activity and amount ."It shall be the duty of the clerk of of service rendered until at present it is • *»4siH^ to examine all bills for public acts one of the outstanding state legislative ref or resolutions, in respect to their form, erence departments; ^ . before the same are reported favorably by the committee to which they have Bill Drafting and Statute Revision been referred, and under the direction of '-. -• Commissioner such committee to prepare such.amend- . ments or substitute bills or resolutions as In 1882 a law. was enacted in the State may be deemed necessary or advisiSble." of Connecticut which established an office Established, Connecticut, Public Acts 1882, where all bills must go after passing both Chapter 137) pp. 215. houses of the Gerieral Asserrtbjy. The office Duties and Salary, Connecticut, Public Acts, was that of the Commissioner-on the Re 1895, Chapter 297. , ' vision of Bills. A clerk to act as Commis- Bill , Drafting, ColYnecticut, Public Acts, ioner was to be appointed jointly by the 1901, Chapter 1 Section 2, 3, 4. • President of the Senate, the Secretary of the Revised Duties, Connecticut, Public Acts, Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Revision of 1902. ' \ • [^ Representatives, and was to be paid a salary of $500 per year. ORGANIZATION The Clerk's duties were enlarged in 1895, his salacy increased to $2500, and the Legislative Reference Department power bf\ appointment vested in the Joint Standing Committees of the Judiciary and The State Librarian is appointed for, an of fehgrossied Bills.' The law was amended indefinite term by the State Library Com January 22, 1901, to specify in greater de mittee which is composed of the Governor, tail the functions of the Clerk and to assign the Secretai-y of State, and a Judge of the to him the actual drafting of bills. , Supreme Court, and two other members elected by the General Assembly. The It is, also necessary according to the law, members'of the library staff are appointed of Connecticut to have the endorsement A by the Librarian for an indefinite number of the Engrossing Clerk on bills before their ^\)f years. ' . . presentation to the Governor. \\ One'assistant librarian; devotes full timie LAWS AND AMENDMENTS to^ the legislative reference departme|it. During legislative session, more than twenty Legislative Reference ^Department persims from other departments as well as There has been no special act creating a otherVssistahts are added to the legislative legislative reference' depaTtnient, but since reference staff. i
•%.- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 219 Bill Drafting and Statute Revision Special reference lists are prepared and special information on many topics is com Commissioner piled upon request. The Department re- The Cominissioner is appointed by the^ -ceives requests for, and delivers photostat Governoir with- the approval of the Senate copies of bills. for a four'.year term. The Commissioner Perhaps one of the most interesting func appoints his staff for an indefinite term . tions of the Connecticut State-Library is which often ends when he resigns or is re-' the reception for the General Assembly and^ placed. , At present the staff consists of the State Governmental officials at which.the Commissioner and one member who devotes entire staff gives a demonstration of the full time to statutory revision. Five as work being done. sistants are engaged in bill drafting during legislative sessions. ... c-i Bill Drafting and Statute Revision Commissioner VSERVICES RENDERED . . • • The Clerk of Bills or Cornmissioner di rectly supervises all bills and passes on their Legislatme Rejerence Department form, accuracy, clearness, consistency and The Connecticut State. Library acts as a constitutionality before they are officially reference library not only for l^islato^ . reported to the General Assembly or com but also for the Supreme Court, sta^ oT^ municated to the Engrossing' Clerk for ap-" licers and several state departments. proval. He prepares and-^^blishes the There have been assembled and conven public acts passed since thel^t^ revision iently arranged the laws^ journals/printed of the general statutes in the form of a bills, special and departmental .reports of ..l„cumulativ e supplement. A current revision Connecticut, and also the special reports, of the general statutes is kept on cards, Hterature, laws and proposed laws on the so that a complete revision can be published principal questions which.wi|l probably be whenever the General Assembly so orders. presented at the general assemblies of sev The card file contains '(1) the statutes in eral states. The Department maintains, a force at the time of the last revision; (2) file of printed bills which makes it possible all new statutes; (3) all amended or re to keep in tbuch with much of the proposed pealed statute.s; ^) annotations concerning legislation in more thain a score of states. any Supreme Court decisions. A complete card catalogue is kept ar ranged by subject and alphabetically by, PER'SONNEL . states. AH material is classified by a modi State Librarian, GEORGE'S. GODARD fication of the Dewey Decimal System. There Is ailso made and retained a ••^ f photostatic copy of every bill, resolution and petition introduced into the Connecti cut General Assembly, and a series of record cards covering each bill, etc., showing its number, .when arjd by whom introduced, to GEORGE "S, what committee referred, when hearings GODARD were advertised, what report was' made upon it, and when it was made, action State Librarian . taken'in each hOuse,'and—if passed—when . signed by the Governor, and its position and number in the Public or Special Laws. The official typewritten copies, of sten- bgraphers' notes taken, at the hearings be fore the several committees are'also kept in this department. They are on file during -the sessions and indexed and bound between Education-^. A.B., Wesleyan University sessions for, Use-of legislators, judges, and 1892. B.D., Yale University 1895. M.S. others interested. Honorary, Wesleyan University 1916. :220- THE BOOK OF THE STA TES ; . M.A. Honorary, Trinity, 1919. Phi 1907-1912. Chief, Legislative Reference Beta; Kappa. Department, Connecticut State Library Offices." Assistant Connecticut State Li since 1912. brarian, 1898-19P0. State Librarian Member: Americian Library Association, since 1900. •• . Connecticut Library >\ssociation. Hart-, Mehiber: -American Law Institute; ford Librarians' Club. College Club of . American Association of Law Librarians Hartford. - • (Pres. 1909-11); National Association of Clubs and Organizations: Delta Gamma. State Libraries (Pres. 1904-5); Chair- Residence: 49 Lorwood Street, Hart- • man, Joint Committee on a Kational In \.- ford.\ '., : .::'..:,•.•." formation Serace 1900-1928. Public Af Office: State Library, Hartford, fairs Information Ser^4ce (Publications Statute Revision Commissioner, FREDERICK Board-since 1913); Index to Legal „Pe-. .\. SCOTT riodicals and Law Library Journal (Pub Education: A.B., Yale University 1889. lications Board since 1907); Ariierican LL.B., Yale University Law School 1891. - Library Association (Exec. Com,, Com. OfTtces: Assistant Clerk, Connecticut on Public ^Archives 1925-30); C|isto- Hoifse of Representatives 1895; Clerk . dian, Connecticut State Library- and Su : 1897; Clerk.of Senate 1899; Clerk of preme Courts Building and Grounds since Bills, Connecticut General Assembly 1910. Bd. of Trustees, Wesleyan Ufii- 1901,1927,1929; Engrossing Clerk 1903, versity since 1919; Connecticut Histor 1907,1925; Representative, Connecticut ical Society. House of. Representatives 1905, 1909, Clubs ami Organizations: - Knight Temp ,]91'1;; Speaker of House- 19,11; United lars, Masons (32nd degree); Delta ' States Attorney, Connecticut 1912-.191.5; . Kappa-Epsilon; HartlorcPCityp-Rot-ary™ Appointed Statute Revision Commis-^ and University Clubs.. sion^FT97^9~fo^rfbur-^years^_Jleappointed Married-: Kate Estelle Dewey. 1933., \ • . .~~^ Residence: 320 Blue Hills Avenue, il/er.- . Chairman. Statute Revision Hartford. Committee. • Oj^cc; State Library, Hartford.. , Clubs and Organizations: INIason; Hart Chiefj Legislative Reference Department, ford CityCliTb.-^ HELEN CoFFi-x*< ; : Residence: Terryyille, Connecticut. 'Education: A.B., Cornell L^niversity • Office: State Capitol.
"LIBRARY FACILITIES \, Office Facilities V The ofiices of the Legislative Reference Department are maintained.in the State Li-- HELEN COFFIN' brary Building which has very adequate
A": physical facilities. It is central in its loca=_' . Chief, Legislative tion and convenient in its arrangement. Reference The Legi^ative Reference Department is located immediately adjoining the statute Department law digests, law reports, legal text books and special legislative material. It main tains study rooms.for those desiring to do research. • . Library Material Since the Legislative Reference Dep^rtr 1906. B.L.S., New York State Library ment is actually a department in a Very School 1910. centralized hbrary system, its material is Offices: First Assistant, Legislative Ref naturally a part of the general library ma erence Section,.New York-State Library terial but it is readily:,rendered available by LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 221 use of a minute indexing and catalogu 1930-32 [^^932-34 ing system, The library uses the Wiscon Salaries ?11,064.00 ?10i447.OO: sin Expansion of the Dewey Decimal Sys Books, pamphlets, tem. Material useful to legislators may etc. . 10,357.96 9,305.23. also be found in the departments devoted Photostating of bills • to Archives, Supreme Court Library, Photostat paper • 2,888.10 / 4,962.80 Probate, Photostat, Periodical, and Ex Chehiicals . ~ 420.00 519.00 change. . Extra . assistants ' 926.18 . 1,101;47^ fOT,^ ' $25,656^24 "$26,335.50 Legislative Reference Department The total expenditures of the: Legisla Commission on the Revision of Statutes tive Reference Department of the Connec ' . ' : .1933-3-4- ^ ticut State Library for the two biennia-^ Salaries ? $ 8,203.38 : July 1, 1930 to July. 1, 1932 and July l', Maintenance' ; 148!48 ' .': 1932 to July 1,1934—are as follows: ; • .:. . TOTAL § 8,351.86
STATE OF DELAJVARE
ORGANIZATION House attorneys to work during legisla No permanent legislative reference serv tive sessions.. The room is adequate in all ice, e.xists in the State of Delaware. During respects. It is close to-both House and the sessions'the Seriate and the House of Senate chambers, thus making it easy for Representatives employ two attorneys each legislators to use the services of the at to serve as bill drafters. The attorneys are torneys. At the same time, it gives the elected by tl^e members of each chamber. • attorneys ready accessUo library materials. A legislative code commission has been ap pointed to work on a revised code. Library Materials LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED The Delaware,,. State Library is almost The four attorneys employed by the entirely a law library and contains more General Assembly of Delaw'are undertake than 21,000 Volumes of legal texts and state a complete bill drafting service and,a small reports.. The bill drafters use the library amount of research and library service for facilities extensively, the legislators. The, Office of the Code Commission is engaged in compiling a re • 'FINANCE. • •/ vised code. The attorneys are paid on a session basis • " LlBRAR?iK,FACILITIES from a fund set aside by the General As Office FaQilitie^ sembly for business purposes. ; The fees, Space is provided in the State Library. over a six-year period, have averaged • ap- at the Capitol building for the Senate and-^ * proximately $750 per attorney per session.
STATE OF FLORIDA
ORGANIZATION! . unpaid-members appointed by the Gover- . The Florida State Library is controlled nor. .The librarian, is-appointed by the by a State Library Board composed of three Board for an indefinite term and acts as V
222 THE BOOK OF THE STATES • its executive secretary. Members of the li Author: "The Bookworm," in "Contem brary staff are appointed by the librarian porary American Poe.ts." and their terms are likewise indefinite. Clubs and Organizaiions: Tallahassee None of the staff devotes full-time to legis Rotary Qub. ; ', v^ lative reference work and no temporary^, Married: Gracie Wentworth. ' workers are. employed during legislativei Residence: Tallahassee, Florida. • sessions. '-' • • Office: State Capitol, Tallahassee.
• LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENOEREb LIBRARY FACILITIES The., service rendered by the. Florida . Office Facilities •- - '•" - State Library is one of lef^islative reference rather than legislative research. The li Tho State Library is located in the State brarian undertakes to give information of Capitol building and is accessible to both a general nature to a.11 inquirers. More House and Senate Chambers. The library specific inquiries are referred to the ad has sufficient floor space at present, but ministrative department hea,dsrbest quali more will be needed for future expansion. fied to ansvver the questions. The librarian • Library Material . upon occasion does draft bills for legislators but many more are drafted by the Attorney ' The Florida State Library maintains the . General's Office. A file of bills presented to usuai set of state documents and depart the Legislature is maintained by the Secre mental reports. Although the Florida Su tary of State. This file is accessible to, preme Court Library is the official law li-' and used by, the State Library. • brary, the state library keeps the session laws of Florida, the revised statutes, and PERSONNEL pamphlet copies of laws of other states and a collection of Federal documents and re Secretary (Ex officio, Librarian) State Li ports. brary Board, W.T. CASH • : Offices: School teacher 1897-1920. Rep . FINANCES / resentative in Florida Legislature 1909, Since the few legislative reference serv 1915-17. County Superintendent of ices rendered are performed as activities of Public Instruction, of Taylor County, the State,Jsibrary they are covered in the Florida, 1920-24. Associate Editor, and biennial appropriation "to that department. Editor, -Pfrn' Herald, Perry, Florida, It would be impossible to estimate what 1925-27. Secretaj-y of the State Librcir>*^>. portion of the e.xpen'ses would be charge- Board and State Librarian since 1927. ible against legislative reference work.
STA TE'OF m ORGU
HISTORY Code Commission to examine such sugges tions for- a Revised Code as were sub ^Legislative Reference Department mitted and to make recommendations to A Legislative Reference department in "the General Assembly. . The Commission connection with the Georgial'State Library- reported in 1933. This resulted in the state was created by an act approved August 12, contracting ^or the publication of a private 1914. In spite of the "decrease in funds in code to be Qompleted in 1935. recent years, all. established services have been maintained. "'^ LAW AWD AMENDMENTS ,, / " Georgia Code Commission Legislative Kejerencc Departmejit . A joint resolution of the Georgia General The act of establishment reads as follows: Assembly created in 1929 the Georgia "There shall be established and con- LEGJSLATiy^ REFERENCE'SERVICES •223 > .. " ducted in coiinection with the State Library guide to laws passed until the acts ate under the direction of the State Librarian, •published in book form. -A card catalogue a Legislative Reference Department.;- The is also.kept on material of interest to legis^ object of said department shall be to gather lators. The daily-indexing by the legisla and to make avaiilable such information as tive Reference Librarian of a leading news shall -aid- the members of the Legislature- paper issued at the capital makes accessible and the several state departments in the much important legislative, economic and discharge of their duties and to serve such political information. The4it)rary uses the other citizens as may desire to consult'-same. Dewey Decimal System in classi/ying its Said department shall collect, arrange, fnaterial. Biennially, a revised edition of classify and'index books, pamphlets and' the .State Constitution is compiled by.the other material relating to legislation-i shall. • Librarian and published in pamphlet form'. prepare abstracts of laws of other states ' The department does not undertake bill and countries, and shall make such indexes 'drafting or revision, •-The office of the.At of the legislative and administrative records torney-General performs these functions ' of this state, both current and past, as to upon the lequest of the legislators. . .- make a^ess and reference therbto easy and -— " Georgia, Acts, 1914, p. ' '"^ " sure. 137-8. PERSONNEL . ; State Librarian, ELLA. JSIAY THORNTON Georgia Code. Cojnmission Education: Graduate, Carnegie Library The Code Commission was created by , School, Atlanta, 1909. acts of the 1929 General Assembly, page .Offices:: Second Assistant Librarian, 1487, and continued.by an act of the 1933 Georgia State Library, 1909-14. Legisla General Assembly. tive Reference Librarian, 1914-18; Li- :. brarian,Tyy Lee Library^ New York City, ORGANIZATION 1918-19. Assistant Librarian, Georgia Legislative Rcjercnce Department • The Georgia Legislative, Reference De- •partrhent is under the general direction of the State Librarian, who has power to name ^he Second Assistant Librarian as Leg-, islative Reference Librarian. The present incumbent is so designated. The State Li ELLA MAY brarian is appointed by the Governor with THORNTON the approval of the Senate for a four year term-—the present one expiring January 1, State Librarian 1938. . The library staff is appointed by the -State Librarian for indefinite terms. .\t present, none of the members of the li brary staff devotes full time to.legislative s. \ reference work. One temporary staff mem ber is emplo.ved to engage in bill indexing during the sessions. • . State Librai;y, 1919-25. State Librarian, LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED Georgia State Library since 1925. The Georgia Legislative Reference De Aut/wr:. Finding List of Books and partment does considerable legislative re Pamphlets^ Relating . to Georgia and search and summarizing of legislation; The Georgians.. A Simple Story. Editor, departmeiit also keeps a card index of leg Georg a Constitution (1932), Georgia, islation by subject on. which is posted from Election Laws, 1926. She has also edited day to day the status of bills introduced arid written many addresses, papers, and into the legislature. " At the close of each- memorials in various Georgia Bar As session of the General .Assembly.a syllabus sociation Proceedings^ Georgia Reports,- of legislation is issued which serves as a and liaw Library Journals, •
. 1 \,.A 224 THE BOOK OF THE STATES Mefnber: Arnerican Library Association. Library Material National Association of State Libraries (Secretary and Treasurer, 1932-3.3), The Legislative,. Reference Library, the (2nd Vice president, 1933-34). Ameri Law Library and the Georgia Library can Association of Law Libraries. South together make up what is known as the eastern Library Association (Secretary Georgia State Library. A special corner of and Treasurer, 1926-1928). Georgia shelves: has always been maintained for Library Commission, 1926(—). Honor legislative reference. Very few books are ary member,' Georgia Bar Association. specifically purchased for the Legislative Residence: 749 Peachtree Street, N.E., Reference Library; the majority are with- Atlanta. dryAvn for varying periods from other sec tions of the State Library arid placed in the Office.: Slate^ Capitol, Atlanta. Legislative Reference Section. Classes of Legislative Reference Librarian, MARGARET material not in this Section, such as stat M. GiBBS . A utes, state documents, reports, pamphlets Education: Graduate, Cox College, Col^ and clippings are readily accessible and ex lege Park, Georgia, 1906. Carnegie Li tensively used. brary School, Atlanta, 1911. . Offices: Assistant Librarian,' Georgia State Teachers' College, Athens, 19U-18.- Other Available Collections " - War Loan Department and Accounting Department, of Federal Reserve Bank, The Georgia State Library has access to Atlanta, 1918-20. Assistant, Georgia books and material kept at the .Atlanta ^ State Library,. Atlanta, 1920-25. 'Legis Carnegie. Library, the Emory University lative Reference Librarian since 1926. Library, the Georgia Library Commission in the State Capitol and the GeorgiaDepart- Member: Aj.xierJcan Library Association, ment of Archives and History in Rhodes Georgia Library Association, Daughters ^Memorial Hall. Frequent use is made of of the. American Revolution, . United the valuable statistical and archival ma Daughters of the Confederacy. terial which is found in the latter. Residence: 62 Park. Lane, N.E., Ansley Park,Ga. O^cc: State Capitol, Atlanta. FINANCES • • Georgia Code Goinmissiori L'ntil 19'32, the Legislative Reference • President of Senate, Hamilton ]Mc- Department was. maintained by a special Whorter. .• . ^^ ' appropriation of the General Assembly. Speaker, of 'House of Representatives, Separate appropriations were then discon 'E. D, Rivers. tinued 'ancLlhe_R.eference Department was Associate Justice of Supreme Court, S. P. administered as a parFoTlhe SfateLibrar-y.-.. Gilbert.' Since then, not only have the State Library Chief Judge of Court of Appeals, Nash R. appropriations been cut drastically but each Broyles. '• ; , • year has seen a percentage reduction of the Supreme Court Reporter, George W. funds appropriated to each department. Stevens., Eleven and one half per cent was withheld Code Editor, Or.ville A. Park. from the actual appropriations to state de Code Editor, Harry S. Strozier. partments in 1932, twenty-nine per cent in. ' 1933, and twenty-five per cent in 1934. L.iBR.ARY FACILITIES. The printing of a separate and detailed annual report was discontinued; publication Office Facilities - . of the Official and,Statistical Register was : The Legislative Reference Department is suspended with the 1931 issue; and the en an integral part of the Georgia State Li tire work of the office greatly hampered by brary which is located in the Capitol Build lack of sufficient means of support. It has ing close to both chamt)ers of the General become necessary to reduce acquisitions of Assembly. The library has adequate floor needed material and to employ.all other space and equipment.. possible economies-. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 225 STATE OF IDJHO }
No LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU
~STATE OF JL LINO IS
.: HISTORY •lative research but this work has suffered of late because of the.great number of spe-' The Illinois Legislative Reference Bu cial sessions of the Illinois General .ALS- reau, was set up under a special Commission sembly and the statutory revision project by an act of June 26, 1913; This Gom^ which has been carried on. .The Illinois mission appoints a secretary who devotes Bureau specialises in.bill drafting. It pro his full time to the duties of the office.- vides upon request of members of the Gen The Illinois bureau has developed greatly eral .Assembly or administrative depart in the twenty-one years of its existence. ments legal assistance in the preparation It undertakes all. of the legislative refer of bills, memorials, resolutions, orders, ence functions including bill drafting. ^ amendments, alterations, revisions and sub Revision of Illinois statutes by the Leg stitutions. islative Reference Bureau was ordered by the General Assembly of 1927 and con .Preparatory to starting work'on, a re siderable progress has been made in spite vision of the Illinois statutes, a fask';_as- of the enormous amount of extra work signed^by the 55th General Assembly, the necessitated'by the twelve special sessions Bureau made a careful survey of all revision held since that date. A legislative com-, methods used in the. various states, par mission attempted .a revision in 1893 and ticularly those used in New York. The definitely failed. method finally devised was relatively iniex- pensiye. The Bureau now carries on a system of continuous revision. . LAWS AND AMENDMENTS Prior to this an annotated constitution" of The Bureau was established by Illinois, the State of Illinois and some notes on bill Acts, 1913, p. 391. : • • drafting as done by the Bureau were pub lished. . ORGANIZATION During each regular and special session The governing body of the Illinois Leg-, of the General Assembly the Bureau pub islative Reference Bureau consists of the lishes a weekly cumulative Legislative Governor and the chairmen of the com Synopsis and Digest-containing a'record of mittees on appropriation and on judiciary all .bills and resolutions introduced, a di in the Senate and the House of Represefita- gest of the contents and their legislative tives. The Governor is the ex-ofiicio chair- progress; It^lso publishes a periodical ntan of the Commission, and the director of digest of legislation by bill number. * the Bureau, who is appointed for an in The Reference Bureau collectkl and com definite term, acts as secretary of the Com piled material for the constitutional, con mission, ^lembers of the Bureau staff are vention of 1919-20, It annually prepares a appointed by the director. Five of these section of the Illinois Blue Book which is devote full time to legislative reference work published by the Secretary of State. and temporary members are employed dur ing legislative sessions. ; PERSONNEL Executive Secrctary-^Lcgislative Reference LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED Bureau, DEWlTT'BlLLMAfi Y \ The Bureau is required to. collect and Educatiofi: LL.B., University of IlUnois, make available the,usual legislative refer 1912. ence materials.. It does considerable legis- Offices: Law Practice, East St, Louis, 111.
^^^ 226 THE BOOK OF THE STATES • 1912-18. Bill drafter, Illinois Legisla Assembly and constitutional conventions, tive Reference Bureau, 1918-25. Execu- statutes of every state in the I'nited States ti^J^ Secretary, Illinois Legislative Ref in complete compilations. The non-legal erence Bureau since 1925. portion of~tlieJibrary_coritains reports, rec Clubs and Organizations-: Order of'the ords and documents of state departments, Coif (Honorary law fraternity); Phi commissions, committees and agencik both ' • Alpha; Delta (Law fraternity); Pi Kappa governmental, and non-governmental; com Alpha. pilations and material from other refer i?C57Gfc«fc,- Springfield, Illinois. ence, bureaus on economic, legal and legis Office: State Capitol, Springfield. ' lative problem's and on all subjects likely Z/^rcr/cw/GLADYS H..PETERSON to be of legislative int,erest;-. • LIBRARY FACILITIES Other Available Library Cpllectiott \. Office Facilities The Illinois State Libi'kry is found in ah The Legislative Reference Bureau has adjoining building and all of its material is- nearly 3,000 square feet of floor space oh available for the use of the bureau. the third floor of the State Capitol build - The Supreme Court. Library is less than ings—the floor, incidentally, upon which the a half block frorp the Legislative Reference House and Senate chambers are located. Bureau and maintains a very exceptional The general pfTice of the Bureau, equipped collection of legal reports and other ma for reference work with tables and cata terial. logue cases, contains approximately 400. The Archives Division of the State His square feet. The bill drafting room torical Library is also of value to the bu equipped with desks for the staff, law in reau: Its collection is extremely useful for dexes, etc., is almost as large. The library, some types of legislative research. ; containing well over 1,000 square feet of floor space and equipped with steel shelv .,,FINANCES •' ing and aisle tables, immediately adjoins The total expenditures of the Illinois the general office and bill drafting room. Legislative Reference Bureau for the -fiscal The bill room, approximately twenty feet years 1932-33, 1933-34, were as follows: square, is next to the bill drafting room. It contains files of bills indexed by number Year ending June 30, 1933 and subject. There is also, a room' for ,, • • • .•••-.- • .' 1-•• stenographers containing approximately Salaries and Wages .; . !^32,836' 3.25 square feet, which is equipped with Office expenses 733 desksr-etc, and used by temporary em Travel • : 252 ployees during legislative sessions. Repairs and equipment 1,153 'Total .... :.' •' ::$34,974 . ; • Library Material • . ... Year ending June 30, 1934. The Illinois Bureau contains over 20,000 Salaries and wages $24,130 pamphlets and books on legal,-•economic, Office expenses • 658 and legislative subjects. In addition thirty- Travel 181 one periodicals are received. All of the Repairs and equipment . 507. material is classified according to an ex panded Dewey Decimal. System. " In gen T-Dta'l . .P •$25,476 eral the. library may be divided into two sections: legal and legislative. • The legal This expenditure of more- than twenty- division contains Illinois laws from terri five thousand dollars j^laces'Illinois sixth torial times, compilations of old and new in rank among the states on the basis of •annotated statutes, Illinois Digests of money spent for legislative reference serv Cases, Illinois .Supreme Court and Appel-' ices of all sorts in the state. The ranking: late reports', opinions of the Attorney Gen would be somewhat higher on the basis of eral, journals and deb^ites of the General money spen^t for individual agencies. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 'yMTE OF INDIANA HISTORY ORGANIZATION: , , The. Indiana Legislative Bureau] was Under the act of 1933 a:nd the executive . riginally established oh August 1, a906, order issued thereunder, •'the office of the asV division of the Indiana State Library Attorney-General and th'e'legislative bureau : by Vn order of the State Library Board, constitute the Departnient of Law which but u was not formally established /by act is in charge of an ex-officio board consisting of i\k General Assembly until March 7, of. the Attorney-General, who' is th^ chief 1907.1 The Bureau continued as a.division administrative officer, i-he governor and of the/State Library until April 1, 1913, at : the auditor of ^tate. The director and staff' which time the General.Assembly made it of, the Legislative BuresTu.are appointed by a separate department of the state goyem- the Governor for terms not to e.xceed four mem; and placed it under the control of a years. ^The jpersonnel of the Legislative board of five members. The Genef'al As: Bureau^was reduced to the director.and two simbly of 1917 inserted a provision in the assistants by the reorganization. At the, inual appropriation act abolishing the present time the director devotes full time', Bureau; but at the same time, by another to: legislative reference" service. Such act, this department was authorized to pre temporary staff members asmay beneces- pare the Indiana Year Book. As a result, 'sary are employed durihg legislative, ses from October, 1917, till April 1, 1919^ the sions. '7 Bureau operated directly under the Gov ernor who financed it from an emergehcy • • LEGISJS^TIVE .SERVICES RENDERED fund. In 1919, the General Assembly; en .i_ The • Indiana Legislative . Bureau ; main acted a la\y which again placed the Bureau^ tains a special library" on--legislative an^ on a definite legal.basis under the control other public questions and a complete file " of ajaoard of three members.- The General of all bills introduced into the Indiana Gfti- Assembly of 1925 created the State Library eral Assembly and all bills of other states and Historical Department to be controlled that might be of interest. A periodical di- by a board of five members and to be com 'gest of all Indiana legislation is made by posed of three divisions,-namely: the. State chapter and bjll numbeir, A card catalogue Library, the Historical Bureau and the Leg: showing the daily action on all bills is kept islative Bureau. This law became effec up to date during sessions of the General tive April 25; 1925 and the bureau oper Assembly. At the conclusion of the Gen ated under that law until the passage of eral Assembly the Bureau edits, publishes the state reorganization act'of 1933. and distributes the House. and Senate ; - • ,';' •••••'• :" Journals. The Legislative Bureau is very LAWS , AND AMENDMENTS active in the preparation and drafting of Lib"rary Bureau established, State Library bills, resolutions, amendments, memorials, ;JBoard, Minutes, Aug. 1, 1906. inotiohs, reports and other measures and State Bureau established, Indiana, Acts, it prepares or examines approximately 850 bills-for introduction at each session of the / 1907,vCh. 147, p. 236. . ^ Bureau becarhe a department, . Indiana,! General Assembly. The Bureau works with special commissions, of the General As- - Acts, 1913, Ch. 225, p. 694. ^- -Bureau-Labolished^ Indiana, Acts, 1917, sembly on codifications of laws and the re Ch, 79, 'Sec72.;^ —--—:___ _.^_ draftings of the state constitution and" also Bureau re-established, Indiana, Acts, 1919, ^rVes as a.bureau of municipal research for Ch. 82,;p. 82. the cities of th€M-state. Probably the most Bureau reorganized, Indiana, Acts, 1925, unique of all legislative services is per Ch. 58/P.1.90. . ,- formed by the Indiana Bureau: keeping State re-organization, Indiana, Acts, 1933, the House and Senate Plat and seating :.;q:h:4;^p.7,;-••;-... the members of the General Assembly. J >28 TEE BOOK OF THE ST A TES PERSONNEL. Library Material Director, Legislative Bureau, DR. CHARLES " The Bureau has in its own library 5,251 KETTLEBOROUGH >^ • "* • books, 15,365 pamphlets, clippings, • etc., • Education: A.B., Univel^ity of Indiana, and files of 44 periodicals, all dealing ivith . Bloomiiigton, 1907. Ph.D., University questions which are. or may become sub of Indiana," 1916. jects of legislation; Included are the codes^ Offices: Bill draftsman, Indiana Legis-. and session; laws of other states, the laws • lative Bureau, 1913-18. Director of the of Indiana and the reports of the Indiana Indiana Legislative Reference Bureau Supreme Court. The pamphlet and clip- since,1918.' "•'•' ping files were fprriierly catalogued by the "":' •Member^ . American. Political Science Dewey Decimal classification. The system .Association. American Historical Asso was discarded a few years ago as being too. ciation. Tax Research Foundation. cun bersome and a system was inaugurated Residence: Spink-Arms Hotel, Indian whicfi is substantially similar to an index apolis. • in a book. All.material is arranged under , •'••Office: State House, Indianapolis. given subjects. Librarian, MRS."PRUDENCE W. DOUGLAS Secretary to Director, ^NIRS. M.ARJORIE M, Other Library. Collections Available, PEBWORTH V • As stated above,', the Indiana Legislative Bureau make's cohstant use of the State LIBRARY FACILITIES Law Library'whic.h adjoins it ia the State Office Facilities House;, The State Library .--was formerly on tl#same .floor of the State House but The Legislative Bureau is conveniently has now been moved to another building locg,ted in the Indiana State House nejLV whereiit is not so accessible. These libra both the House and the Senate chambers. ries ai!e used for general treatises on law; Although floor space is not sufficient dur and other cognate Isubjects. ing sessions of the General Assembly,'set up, is. otherwise satisfactory/.^ Since the .'FINANCES State Law Library is located' on the same The total expenditures of the Indiana floor and very close to the L'egislative Bu Legislative Bureau for the fiscal years 1932- reau, its facilities are constantly available. 33 and 1933-34 are as follows: Subject IP32-33 • 1933-34 Regula'r Salaries. . $ 7,371.35' - - ?8,462.18 Special Salaries • 1,795.66 ;. 16.75 Operating Expenses 637.46 347.19 Equipment • 318.09 , 495.63 • Total . V $10,122.56. $9,32 L7 5 STATE OF'IOWA •HISTORY ^ tensive reference work.; The departments The legislative reference department of coordinate their efforts arid are thereby able the Iowa State Library began its existence to give greater service. as a part of the law library about 1908, and was known as the Law. and Legislative ; LEGISLATION Reference Department, Since that time it The laws.of 1911, Ch. 147 first recog- has grown steadily and is now a well estab nized and'established a legislative, refer lished bureau, adequately equipped for ex ence bureau by providing that ''there shall /• ? •.:. LEG I SLA TIVE REFERENCE SER VICES 229 be annually appropriated ...... tions to the Iowa statutes are prepared and the sum of $6,000 for the use of the law published every two years. The Code Edi- department and legislative reference bu tor'advises the General Assembly upon the reau. revision of laws and also does some bill ORGANIZATION drafting although there is no statute assign The Law and Legislative Reference De- ing this function to him. partmentis one of the four departments of . —^ PERSONNEL the State Library. The Library is admin State Librarian, JOHNSON BRIGIIAM istered un^l^r a Board of Trustees com Law and Legislative Rcjcrcncc Librarian, posed of tfle Governor, the Secretary of State, the •Superintendent of Public In ARTHUR J. SMALL struction and the Judges of; the Supreme Education: Studied law and business Court., This Board appoints the State Li-' in'Maine, brarian and the Law and Legislative Ref^ .: Offices: Assistant, Law Department of erence Librarian for six year terms—the State Library, 1896-1911. Law and Leg- present terms ending May 1, 1938. The department staff is appointed by the Law and Legislative Rejer.ence Librarian for in definite periods. The.six.regular staff mem ARTHUR. J. bers devote the greater part of their time to the legislative reference service, . Six- SMALI; . temporary staff members are allowed "by the General Assembly, to assist in this work Law and during legislative sessions., . Legislative. • .' .•• • • .. • ••'•-' • 1 • • ,. ' LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED . Reference Librarian Law. and Legislative Rejcrence • 'Department'•/:''^" .. The Law' and Legislative Reference De partment undertakes research and library service for legislators, state officials and the public. Subject indexes of bills and islative Reference Librarian since 1911. other legislative material, and digests of. . Member: National Association of State bills pending and statutes operating in Iowa\ Libraries, American Association of Law and in various other states are prepared: . Libraries (firstpresident). , The department also compiles typewritten Clubs and Organizations: ;Mason, bibliographies and maintains an inquiry Knights Templar, Consistory, Order of service for all persons requiring legisla.tive the Eastern Star. ;. •• information. Preceding the sessions lettiers Office: State Library, Des Moines. are sent to; legislators inquiring as to the /?weorf/zvl55or/«/c, BERTHA L/.HESS * information in which they will be interested. Research Associate, MARION L. CASSAUAY . Although the department does considerable Research Associate^ HOPE' HULL bill drafting when requested by individual 5(?rrc/flrv, A'lRGiNiA D.'ALLEN members of the General Assembly, official Clerk and custodian, • JA^rES S. JONES bill draftsmen are not .employed as regu Mttorney-Gencral, • EDWARD L. O'CONNOR, lar staff rnenibers. The Attorney-General Co^e£6?//or, U.G. WHITNEY and his staff also-assist in bill drafting when Assistant Code Editor, NANCY M. CONLEE specifically requested by the rnember desir Secretary, WAYNE A. F.AUPEL ing service. LIBRARY FACILITIES ;; The Department of the-^ode Editor The Iowa Code is compiled and edited Office Facilities:. ^ ;; every four years by the Code Editor who ' The Law and Legislative Reference De- is also Supreme Court Reporter. Annota- partnient of the Iowa State Library is ,^ 230 THE ROOK OF THE STATES ) '^ housed on the'second floor of the Capitol reference collection composed largely of in close proximity to the House and Senate clippings, pamphlets and. typed material, is chambers which ai^e on the sarne floor. The placed in manila folders and vertical file. library room is 108 feet long, 52 feet wide^ 'pockets. It is labelled by subjects and filed and 45 feet high. The main floor contains alphabetically in.legal size steel cases. 5,616 square feet • and • the four balconies total 139,848 square feet. There are about piker Library Collections A vailable i two and one half miles of shelving and many In addition to the 95,000 volumes in- the steel filing cases and cabinets. The library Iowa Law and Legislative Reference Li is excellently lighted haying approximately brary there are also available for reference 3,500 square feet of window space. •work about 150,000 volumes in the other departments of the State Library. The ma /Library Materials. terial of the Econornics Division is kept in The Law and Legislative Reference De the same room with that of the Law and partment contains approximately 95,000 .\. Legislative Reference Library. bound volumes and 12,000 pieces of refer ence material. • FINANCES.. -V .. '•-•''.• .,«. All law textbooks, reference volumes and. The total expenditures of the. Law and reports are arranged on the shelves by sub Legislative Reference Department for the ject in alphabetical order. The legislative last two fiscal biennia are as follows: 1929-1931 1931-1933 Regular Salaries $22,240.00 $22,240.00 Extra Help ,- 1,4J5.00 1,881.90 Support , 12,000.00 12,000,00 $35,715.00 $36,121.90 STATE OF KANSAS , ' ^ : „ 'HISTORY ;; 1913 under the provisions delegating to the . f Office oj-the Revisor of Statutes State Librarian the right to make coordi . , This department was created by an act nate departments within the State Library. of. the,1929 Kansas Legislature and organ The Library has been more active as a leg ized oh July i,'1929. It was designed to islative reference bureau in the past-than : it is at the present time.- From about 1909 render complete legislative reference serv until .1929 legislative reference work and ' ice—-including legislative research,' legisla bill drafting were-performed by a member tive bill drafting, and' statutory revision— of the State Library staff known as the to the state legislators and officials, and to ."Legislative Reference Clerk." interested ;dti'zens. An act approved ]\I^rch 14, i^'33,;provided that the Revisor of Statutes shMlvact as Secretary to'the LAWS AND AMENDMENTS ne^ly created Legislative Council. The Office of the Revisor of Statutes was : The extensive research work undertaken crieated by the Kansas Laws of 1929,,chap for the Council has given Kansas one'of the ter 279. This law may be found in the 1933 best legislative reference services in the Supplement of the Revised Statutes of Kan country. However, this work has been sas, 1923. The Revisor of Statutes became commenced so recently that it is impossible Secretary to the Kansas State Legislative to describe it in this Manual. Council'by-the provision'of Kansas Laws, 1933, chapter 207^ section 8, which reads Legislative Rejerence Department oj as follows: , " the State Library "That the Revisor of Statutes shall The Legislative Reference Department act as Secretary of said council, and of the Kansas State Library was created in the said council may require, the serv- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 231 ices of the legislative reference library, vision-^is prepared. From time to time the. arid the council may employ, such as office prepares compilations which are avail- sistants and engage the services of ^le'in typewritten form. In addition, the such research agencies as it may deem Revisor of: Statutes acts as Secretary toj . desirable and its appropriation, per and his Office as a research, agency for, mits, in the preparation of a program . the Kansas State Legislative Council. , \[- of^legislation or in regard to any mat- ^ ters^f 'statewide public importance Legislative Reference Department of ' within the jurisdiction of the.legisl^Uve the State Library • branch." . • The State Library has classified and ar ranged its economic and legislative material "ORGANIZATION for the use.of the members of the Legisla Both the Kansas Revisor 6f Statutes and ture,; state officers, and interested citizens; the State Librarian are appointed for in It undertakes some research but turns over definite terms by the judges of the Su the majority of it, as well as requests for preme Court. The staffs of the Office of bill drafting, to the Office of the Revisoi- . the Revisor of Statutes and of the State of.«'Statutes. The Department in close co Library are appointed for indefinite terms"* operation with the Revisor of Statutes is by. the Revisor of Statutes and State Li-' accumulating and filing for quick; reference brarian respectively. The Revisor of Stat material on legislation. Individual copies utes and his assistan^^ devote full time to and bourid volumes of all bills and resolu legislative reference work, and two technical tions are kept on file. In the purchase of assistants are employed during legislative ^ooks for the Stata Library, the State Li sessions. One of the members of the State Library-staff devotes most of her time to brarian gives careful consideration to the legislative refer^ence work. Extra clerical general importance of legislative reference and stenographic assistants are furnished to material. both the Revisor of Statutes and the State • ;;,.^\' ,. PERSONNEL^ .; Librarian duringthe legislative sessions. \ Office- of the Revisor of Statutes LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED. Revisor of Statutes, FRANKLIN GQRRICK " The Office of the Revisor of Siatutes '^ Education: Graduate, Kansas Wesleyan The Office collects all available infor mation relating to any matter which may be the subject of proposed legislation and it ^H^^^ ^^PS^B is now accumulating data on-the practical' operation and effect of statutes in Kansas; and in other states. A card index of all FRANKLIN Kansas bills and resolutions is maintained '^S^M Wm and the legislative travel of each bill is CORRICl^ «V^^>*J.-' noted. daily. During sessions the R.evisor and his staff.assis^legislators and commis Revisor of. sions or committers in revising and com Statutes piling laws and in drafting arid revising bills. At each regular session of the Leg islature the Revisor also recommends to the judiciary committees of the House and Senate such bills as will tend to clarify the existing laws. The Reyisor supervises and assists in all revisions or compilations of College of Commerce, Salina, 1920. Stu the general laws of the state by express dent, Washburn College and University authority of the Legislature. Upon the of Nebraska, 1923-25. LL.B. Washburn close of each regular session a cumulative College, School of Law, 1928.:; supplement—completely indexed and-ar-' Offices: ' Lawyer in active practice, ranged in the same order as the last re- Topeka and Manhattan, 1928-29, As- 232 THE BOOK OF T BE ST A TE'S , sistant to^Revisor pf' Statutes, Kansas, :.This figure does not include a vast num 1929-33. Revisorof Statutes since 1933. ber of pamphlets, unbound periodicals, clip Member:, %SLnsas 5tate Bar Association. pings and circulars. The law department Topeka, Kansas 3ar Association.- Sec of the State? Library is recognized as the retary, Kansas State Legislative Council best one of its kind in the central south since September/1933. west. The material on legislation is not Clubs and Organisations: American segregated but is maintained as a part of Legion, Masons, Delta' Theta Phi (legal the State Library. The research material fraternity). * of the Revisor of Statutes consists of onTy Residence: 927 Topeka Avenue, Topeka. the most current pamphlets, etc. All per - 0|fice;' State Capitol, Topeka. manent material and newspaper clippings Assistant to Revisor of Statutes, FRED E. are classified by the State Library and are GULICK .' " used by the Revisor as required; The col lection of material on tax rnatters made by Legislative Rejerence Department the Kansas Tax Code Commission in 1929, , , • oj State Library : has been preserved by the Revisor of State,Librarian,-Lq\JiSE MciSiEAL , St3.tutes, who is e.x-officio a member of all Legislative Assistant, EDNA REINBACH such committees or commissions. ' ' LIBRARY FACILITIES Other Library Collections Available . Office Facilities The materials of the Kansas State'His f ••:••..- The Revisor of Statutes maintains'. Jiis torical Society which is located two blocks officesWith those of the State Librarian in .from the Capitol Building are also avail •the Capitol Building. They are on "the able. The City Library of Topeka.located- same floor as the House and Senate ciiam- on the State House Grounds, is used upon bers. During sessions of the Legislature occasion. the Librai^iari's office which is- close to. the law section and the other library .materials ' '. • - •'••'". FINANCES is turned over entirely to the Revisor of The total expenditure of the Oftlce _^of Statutes (or bill drafting purposes. The the Revisor of Statutes for July 1, 1932, light, ventilation, heat and floor space are until June 30, 1934, was $10,510.93. This all adequate for the-neipds of the service. may be divided into: salary and wages,: $10,064.09; and miscellaneous expendi , Library ][}atcrial tures,-$446.84. It is impossible to estimate There are now over 120,000 volumes in the' expenditures of the State'Library for the Kansas State Library exclusive of what legislative reference purposes as no segre . is known as th% Stormpnt Medicail Library, gation is made. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY " DRGANIZATION \ with hers. None of the five, staff mem bers devotes full time to legislative refer The Kentucliy State Library does not ence services, nor are temporary staff have a separate Legislative Reference Bu members employed to engage in legislative reau but renders all possible assistance to. reference work during ^g^essions of the the legislators as a regular function of theii- General Assembly. brary^.^,The.librarian is appointed by the General Assembly for a four year term.. The present librarian^tarted her third term.July LEGISLATIVE SERVICES REjmERED 1, 1932. The library i^taff is appointed by The State Library renders as^tanc^ in the librarian for terms to rim concurrently finding material for the drafting of bills. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 235 The library keeps a file of all-bills.intro Miscellaneous Librarian, PAULINE-H.. VAN duced at any session of the General As METER sembly whether^they were passed or not.- . Bookkeeper, J^uiiiiE LEWIS These bills are all properly; catalogued for easy reference. A file of the laws of other LIBRARY FACILITIES, states is also kept.. No legislative research Office Facilities work is done. The reference work is The. State Libr-ary is housed in the State largely that of an efficient library service. Capitol Building at Frankfort,--close- to both House and Senate Chambers. "^ How PERSONNEL ever, the floor space is inadequate and State Librarian, MRS. J. C. CANTRILL many'of the materials are stacked in the Education:. A.B., Kentucky State Uni attic and basement and are, therefore, use versity, Lexington. , less for reference work. Although Ken 0^fC5;-State Librarian since 1924. tucky material is located where it may be . Mttnbcr: National Democratic Speak used readily, other materials) . of which'* ers Bureau,'Vice Chairman, 1924. Na there is a fine collection, .are inadequately tional Democratic Committeewoman for arranged and catalogued. .; Kentucky, 1924-28, Delegate to the Na tional Democratic Convention (at Library Materials Large), 1928. Member of Executive The library contains complete sets of the - Committee of the National Democratic law reports of all the states and other re Committee. Member of Executive Coun ports wi'th legal indexes and a file of bills, cil, National Civic Federation. Advisory catalogued by subject ^and year. This ma Committee, American Foundation. terial is supplemented by state documents, • .Woodrow Wilson ^Memorial Committee. periodicals, pamphlets, and exchange ma Delegate, National Good Roads Asso terial of various kinds. ciation. .•..•••.•.• •• •' •• -• • ^•"'"-- • •••.•- Clubs and Organizations: Daughters of ^ . FINANCES .* : * ; • \ the American Revolution, Daughters of The total expenditure of "the.^Stite Li the Confederacy, Women's Club, Frank brary since 1929 has averaged very'close to fort. ?34,000 per year, afterthe receipts are. sub Married: J. C. Cari'trell, ex-congress tracted'. Less than §10,000 of this yearly man. average was paid. for salaries. Tt is hot Residence: Frankfort, Kentucky. possible to. approximate what pprtion of Officer State Capitol, Frankfort; this expenditure could be charged against Assistant Librarian, TOMMYE B. VEALE legislative reference service. '. "~^ ST J TE OF L QUI SI ANA . HISTORY . » which is located at Baton 'Rouge receives It is unfortunate for the Louisiana Leg many requests for legislative reference bu-. islature that its State Library is located in rea'i work- which it is. not adequately New Orleans while the Capitol is in Baton L-quipped to perform. However, an attempt Rouge. This arrangement has been adopteu is made to provide certain services, particu ; because the State Library serves as a law larly during the sessions of the Legisla-^ "library for the Supreme Court of Louisiana ture. " • " V * . which holds its sessions in New Orleans. For- In 1921, the Louisiana Legislature ^'^-: this reason the new quarters proVided for adopted a constitutional requireri}e'fl'f-t|iat the Library in the Capitol have not been all matter intended to become law''"s'h6md, .occupied. • prior to the third reading, be submitted'by ' Naturally under these circumstances, the the house where it did not originate to a Louisiana Library Commission secretariat Legislative Reference Bureau. The g^ureau 234/ ^ THE BOOK OF THE ST A TES is made up'of!the Attorney-General or his 2. Copies of the.daily journal of the'Sen assistant and two members of the Legisla- ate giving in detail the day's proceedings. i£ituii|v?one cn^n by each house. The pro 3. Copies of the daily journal of the posed law is^jk be examined fpr construe; House of Representatives giving in detail tion, consisfericy with existing law, legality, the day's proceedings. constitutionality, etc. '. The repJbrt of • the 4. Weekly calendar of the Senate giv Bureau on any bill is purely advisOty. ing an official synopsis of the introduction The only other available legislative serv and progress of each bill introduced. ice is that which may be purchased by 5. Weekly calendar of the House of Rep- legislators from, a private organization resentatives^giving an bfficial synopsis of known^ the Louisiana Legislative Service. the 'introductioif^and^prpgress of each bill This is supplied by the. Clerk of the House introduced. .. ^^ / of Representatives and the Secretary of 6. The prompt response to all inquiries the State Senate. by mail or telegraph as requested,"^-^ 7. Complete list of all bills finally en- -. • ORGANIZATION acted into law, giving numb,er, author and The officiaUorganization rendering'legis date of approval. (This information to be , lative services is the Louisiana Library Com furnished after adjournment of the Legis mission. It is composed of five unpaid, lature.) members who meet to appoint an executive Copies of bills are furnished at fifty cents secretary \and a. staff for indefinite terms per page, with a minimum charge of $1.00v and to pass the Commission's budget. The executive. secretary of the Commission is PERSONNEL ex officio librarian of the srnall library main Exeailivc Secretary, Louisiana Library tained at the Capitol. Neither the libra Commission, ESSAE M. CULVER rian nor any of the very limited staff de'vote* Education: _ B.L., Pomona College, full time to legislative reference work ex Claremont, Cal., 1907. New York State cept during sessions. No temporary staff LibrarySchool, Albany, 1908. members are employed. Offices: Assistant .-Librarian, Pomona College, 190,7. Librarian, Public Li . LEGISLATIVE- SERVICES RENDERED brary, Salem, Oregon, 1909-12. County The secretariat and library of Louisiana librarian successively in Glen, Butte, and • T Library Commission provide every service Merced Counties, California, 1913-25. possible with the limited means at hand.. Library visitor, 1921-23. Executive No legislative research work is done but an . secretary, Louisiana Library Commission „ attempt is made to locate reports and ma since 1925. y' terial from which legislators may find per Member: American Library" Association, tinent data. The fact, that the library has League of Library Commissioners, Phi no legal documents except a few session Sigma Alpha (honorary library frater laws makes the.work ^very difficult. Bill nity). drafting is referred to the Attorney- Residence: 111 Churst Street, Baton -General's office though the stenographer Rouge. of the Commission types up laws, amend ^Office: State Capitol, Baton .Rouge. ments to laws, and legal drafts for legis lators, . •' LIBRARY FACILITIES . The privately operated Louisiana Legis Office Facilities- lative Servicers prepared to furnish to cor The Louisiana Library Commission has porations or individuals the following serv very adequate office facilities in.the State ices at a cost of ?100 for the entire session. Capitol at JBaton Rouge and also in the '• 1. Official roster giving names and-ad State. Library which is at present located dresses of all members and officers of both in the New Orleans Court Building. the House and the Senate and the personnel .-.(••'.. ' • , • of all standing committees of both houses Library Facilities together with a schedule of the time and : Very few legal reports, sess'io'n laws, di place of their meetings. gests or other library materials used in leg- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 235 islative reference work are available for the State Library at New Orleans to turn over use of the Library Commission and the leg to their library duplicate copies of the Su islators. The few that are available are .in preme Court Reports and acts of the Leg constat use. islature, the Governor vetoed the bill, - Other Available Collections of Materials .' FINANCES ^ The legislators are badly in need of an The Louisiana Library Commission re adequate law library. They find it neces ceives a bienniaV appropriation which is sary to use that of .the University of Louisi spent for the maintenance and operation ana, more than a mile away, or those of of their services. It is not possible ••to the la^vyers in Baton Rouge. Although the estimate with any accuracy how much Louisiana. Library Commission was able to is expended on the legislative reference pass a bill in the Legislature authorizing the service. , . X, SmTE OF MAINE : HiSTORi::. ^ LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED . The Governor and Council, of Maiiie, at Past and pending legislation is indexed a nieetin)^ held early in 1916, authorized the and digested for the benefit of legislators State Librarian to employ a legislative and others interested in public questions. reference clerk. No "special appropriation Most of the Bureau Librarian's time is was made for this new office and function. spent in arranging and filing informa;tion OnMarch .29, one year later, ah act au for the use of the legislators. 'No bill draft thorized, the establishment of a Legislative ing is done and none of the compilations Reference Bureau in the State Library. The that are made are pubHshed, Librarian was giv.en tiic. authority to em The legislative reference work of the ploy necessary assistance-for \the proper State Library is in some measure the com administration of the Bureau. Since that plement of that done in the office of the' time the Bureau hasi slowly.accumulated a Revisor of Statutes. The Revisor upon re legislative library. quest-assists members of the Legislature, the Governor and other officials in drafting bills and also maintains a continuous system LAWS AND AMENDMENTS . of statutory revision. . The State Librarian is authorized "to establish in the.State Library a legislative PERSONNEL ^ . reference bureau which shall collect, ar Legislative Reference Bureau Librarian, range and place on file books, pamphlets REBECCA FRIEDMAN • :' ; and other rrfffterial relating fo. legislation, Education: A.B., University of Maine. and shall prepare abstracts of laws in other Summer session, Simmon's College, Bos states and present such other information ton, 1929. ; - " as may be useful and necessary to the Legis Offices: Librarian,Legislative Reference lature." Maine, Acts, 1917, page 97. Bureau of the Maine State Library since 1930; . • , • Residence :\ 69 Cony Street, Augusta. • ': .^ ORGANIZATION j5 ." ,,-. ,, Office: State House, Augusta. /Thie Librarian and the staff oPthe Legis Revisor of Statutes, L. SMITH DUNNACK lative Reference Bureau are appointed for indefinite terms by the State Libra^an. At •LIBRARY FACILITIES i •. the present time the Bureau Librarian de Office Facilities votes full time to legislative reference serv The Legislative Reference Bureau forms ice. • No temporary staff is employed. an integral part of the Maine State Library V 236 ' THE BOOK OF THE STA TES and the offices are identicals? The State Li for legislative reference use. A special col brary is located in the State House near to' lection of material pertaining to Maine in both charnbers of the Legislature. The cludes, census records, family historiesj State Library has some fine facilities. In official.publications of the state, legislatives.^, 1930 new catalogue cases were installed that reports, town reports, bound files of news will adequately handle material for fifteen papers, etc. The latest legal textbooks, or twenty years. The greatest handicap is encyclopedias, and dictionaries and 60,000 the lack of shelf space for bound volumes.- volumes of the reports of United States, There is a project extant for the enlarge Great Britain and Canada form a large part ment of that wing of the State House in of. the collection. An innumerable number which the Library is located. of documents and clippings, are filed by subject. . i .. . • ; Library Material , The jSIaine State Library has over 200,- FINANCES • . 000 volumes in its general reference section. The average total expenditure of the There are separate files within this section Maine State Library is $50,000 annually, on sociology, statistics, political science, jrhis includes all departments and activities. political economy, law, administration, edu A departmental analysis of expenditi^r^s is cation and commercey.which are appropriate not made. . • STJTE OF MARYLAND • . " HISTORY both efficient anxi economical and has fur The Maryland .Department of Legisla thered c()(")rdinati()n and coi'jperation be tive Reference is both a state service for tween the .state and .the major ^xiy which Maryland and a m^micipal service for the contains one-half of the state's population. City of Baltimore, When the Department , i,AWS AND AMENDM.ENTS was created in 1906.as a uni-t in the ad ministration of Baltimore, it constituted The duties of the Department, as a mu the first attempt qn the part,of a city to. nicipal bureau, are very clearly set forth in estabhsh a bureau for this type of>work— the acts of establishment and are as follow^s: though many maintained bureaus of statis Established as a Municipal Bureau, Mary- tics.-From the beginning the Department . land. Acts, 1906, Ch. 565, ; ' rendered service to .the state legislators. In Given State Functions, ^Maryland, .'Vets, 1916 an act was approved which iriiposed 1916, Ch. 474. the additional duty of officially providing a complete legislative reference and bill ORGANIZATION drafting service for the General Assembly When ihe Department mjj^imorewas and administrative official^ of the State of established, it was tpnsidtred desirable to Maryland, Since 1916 the Department has "remove it from partisan political control and maintained a branch office at Annapolis, the to give the ^mployeesXa Wrmanent status. state capitol, during legislative sessions. Accordingly those-who "vyere^aetrC^hrsecur- The permanent bffic£S-emains in Baltimore. ing the creation of the Department placed In 1924 the. Mar/land General Assembly it under an ex officio boar\l consisting of the passed aii act providing for examination by •President of Johns Hopkins University, the Department OT^Legislatwe Reference of President of the !Municipal\Art Society, the all bills introduced or t-o^ il^^roduced. This Mayor, the City Solicitor, and the President was vetoed by the G6vei;n0i-, •., of the Merchants' ami Manufacturers' As The unique featiire/of this Department sociation. The director holds office during of Legislative Reference is itsg'oint service good behavior and may be removed by a to city and state. This set-up lias prbvert' majority vote only for incompetency or r J^ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 237 neglect of duty. Two of the three original Department of Legislative Reference is the employees are stillin the Department and ' custodianship of the official records, docu other appointments are made by the direc ments and archives of the City of Balti tor from the civil service lists of Baltimore more. The director is generally called upon and of the state. There are six full time to act as secretary to any committees or employees with the Department at the pres commissions whose purpose is research and ent time. *Six more are employed during revision. the regular sessions of the General As sembly. The-vittorjiey General's Office The Attorney General of" the State of SERVICES RENDERED Alary land drafts purely administrative , Department of Legislative Reference measures. • • The Department maintains an inquiry PERSONNEL |, service for all city, state, and other officials and for associations concerned or connected Director of Department of Legislative Ref with government. Information is compiled, erence, DR. HORACE E. FLACK] published and sent to those interested. Education: A.B., and A.M.,!Wake For After each election, letters.are sent to the est College, Wake Forest, North Caro- members of the General Assembly, calling Hna, 1901. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins attention "to the work of the Department University, Baltimore, 1906. LL.D., Uni and offering its facilities, either in gather-, versity of ^Maryland, Baltimore, 1912. ing information or in drafting bills; LL.D.; Wake Forest College, 1933. A careful index has been made of each Offices: Director, Department of Leg bill introduced into the General Assembly islative Reference since 1907. Secretary and of each ordinance introduced into the of the following: New Charter Revision City Council since 1908. There- has been Commission of Baltimore™ , 1909-10. City- maintained a numerical index which shows the number, name of the member introduc ing and the title of each bill and ordinance. It also shows the committee reference, re port of cojpmittees, the several readings and DR. HORACE' E.. the final chapter or ordinance number, with .- FLAGK the date of appro\-al or veto by the Gover nor or the ^Nlayor as the case may be. The Department makes a sessional digest of Director of the bills by subject matter to facilitate refer Department of ence. Full sets of (he codes and laws of legislative the states have been maintained to date. •Reference The Department has. always used the Dewey Decimal system of classification, with modifications necessary for the: spe cialized class of material it handles. There is also maintained a Very comprehensive card index to all o^Hihe material in "the De wide Congress'- of Baltimore, 1910-13;' partment in addition to the sPeciS'Indexes Charter Board, of Baltimore, 1917-18.. of bills and ordinances mentioned above"!! Baltiinore' Special Tax Commission, Approximately 90% of all ordinances and jr923, Baltimore Retfrement Commisr 70 to 75% of all the bills are.rprepar1ed by sion, 1924-25. Charter Revision Com the drafting department within the I3e- mission, of Baltimore, 1925-27. Tax partment. This is an important service Survey Commission of Maryland, 1931- since over 400'ordinances and 1000 bills ,33. are introduced every year into the CityV Author: Spanish American Diplomatic Council and General Assembly respectjjj'ely. Relation Preceding the War of 1898 . The latest function undertaken by .tbg;,. (1906). The Adoption.of the Fourteenth 238 THE BOOK OF THE STATES Amendment (1908). Notes^bn Current economic and social problems, (2) the char Legislation in American Political Science ters and ordinances of other cities, (3) pe : Review (1910-14). Taft Papers on the riodicals dealing with municipal and other League of Nations (Co-editor) (1920). pljbllc~questions, (4) state laws, (5) state Baltimore-City Charter ('l927). Balti and municipal reports, (6) files of bills and more City Code (1927 Edition). Code ordinances Avhich have been kept up to date. -- .of Public Laws of Maryland (1930). The Department has added to its collection Contributor to Cyclopedia of American each year until, at the present time, there Government. are more than 25,000 books, approximately Member: Phi Beta Kappa, American 40,000 pamphlets, numerous magazines, Political Science Association,«National thousands of clippings, leaflets, circulars, Municipal League, University Club, and seventeen four-drawer units of vertical Chesapeake Club. files containing valuable compilations, re Married: Edith Henning. ports, etc. In addition to a valuable set of Residence: 1808 Dixon Road, Mt. Baltimore City documents, the Department \-. Washington. has a very good collection of Maryland ^ Office: City Hall, Baltimore. documents. Research Associate, ELLA S. HITCHCOCK After the consolidation of .the Baltimore Research Associate, MARGARET E. COONAN City Library with the Department of Legis -Rc^carc/z/I ^5067c/c, NELLIE M.WEBSTER lative Reference on January 1, 1932, the \ Custodian of Archives and Records, FRANK latter took over all of the documents, rec ,\J. SEBALD ords and archives of the City and thereby \ssistafit Reference Librarian, HELEN M. has added materially to the information QuiNN >> available in the Department. Attdrnev-Gencral, HERBERT R. O'CONNOR Other Available Library Collections Office Facilities In Baltimore the Department of Legis The ""Department has, af present, ample lative Reference has access to the Enoch floor spj^ce. An old Council Chamber was Pratt Free Library and the City Bar Li turned ov^r to the Department and steel brary. It is not often necessary for the shelves installed. The present'City Council Department to use eitherof Jthese libraries Chamber and the Department offices/are on as its own material is generally adequate. the same flbc^ro f the City Hall. In Annapolis, during legislative sessions During the\sessions of the General As the branch office of the Department de sembly, the Department has a room which is pends on the ^Maryland State LiJjrary for in close proximity to both the House and the Codes arrd State Laws .of Maryland. Senate Chambers. The space is somewha;t The State Library is just across the street crowded but as the work at the Capitol lasts from the Capitol and there is no difficulty only th'ree months in evffy tWo years it is in borrowing matefialas it is needed.. adequate. The Department takes very little of its material to'the Capitol but, relies on r ' FINANCES the Maryland, State Library and on a rapid The.total appropriations to the Depart communication system with Ba:ltimo're. ment of Legislative Reference for the last The only material taken from Baltirjiore is two biennial periods, showing the amounts a set of the Department's" own codes of appropriated by the State of ?klaryland .and other states and pamphlet material on cur the City of Baltimore, are as shown on .the rent legislative subjects. All routine work opposite page. is done in Baltimoi-e and dupHcate copy of The increased kmount appropriated by the index to all House and Senate bills the State of Maryland in 1931 and 1933 is then forwarded to the Capitol office. due entirely to special work made necessary • l '" • • i . .' during the actual sessions of the. General Department Material . " Assembly. . ' The-Department's library collection in The increased appropriations by the City cludes: (1) books dealing with municipal. of Baltimore during the years 1932 and r. •• • V' > i . I. ' ^- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 239 193.3 is due to the;fact that the Depart- actually a department of archives. This nient took over the functions of a $9,000 a consolidation resulted in' an annual saving year City Library Department which^Avas of over $4,000 to the City of Baltimore. - 1930 1931 1932 1933 Salaries State, - • :? 4,300 $ 7,800 . ? 4,800 $ 8,300 City ^ •7,050 V -7,050 " ,9,350 • 9,045 Total • ^ $11,35P ?14,850 '$1,4,150 . $17,345 Expenses State '•••'. •$ 725 ? 1,150 , - $ -750 $ 1,150 •City. 900 . 900 2,000 1,500 Total $ 1,625 . $ 2,050 $ 2,750 • $ 2,650 Grand Total .. ?12,975 $16,900 • $16,900 . $19,995 COMMONJFEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY long referred, to itself as primarily a Legisla-" Offices bj-the Senate Counsel and the tive Reference Library, Provision was ' House Counsel • made in an • appropriation act of 1910 for '$6,000 to prepare a card index of compara The General Court of Massachusetts tive legislation., While no specific act has maintains a legislative counsel for each of been passed creating an official legislative its two chambers.. The Counsel to the reference depa:rtment, yet by this provision House,.of Representatives and the Counsel and through the initiative of the State Li to the Senate play very important roles brarian such ^n agency has.'come into^xist- in Massachusetts law making. The pres erice.- ent system was inaugurated in 1920 when Governor Calvin Coolidge approved an act LAWS AND AMENDMENTS providing a legal counsel "and staff for each Offices of the Senate Counsel and branch. . , • " House Coimsel • For over forty years prior to that time, the Rules Committees of the two branches The Massachusetts Acts of 1920, Chap had provided expert assistance in bill draft ter 640, provide for permanent House and ing, correction and revision. This assistance Senate counsels.which shall "annually pre inckided the services of Ashton Willard, pare a table of changes in the general stat-.. author of a well kno\\Ti handbook on legis utes, an index to the acts and resolves' and lation, of John E' Abbott and of Henry C. shall from time to time . , .consolidate Merwin. ]\Ir. Abbott was succeeded in 1915 and incorporate in the General Laws all new by William" E! Dorman, and iSIr. Merwin, general statutes . , . and shall so far as in 1920, by Henry D. Wiggin. possible draft all bills proposed for legisla From 1916. to 1920 Massachusetts spent tion as general statutes in" the form of a half million dollars on a" genera,l revision amendments of or corrections in the General of its statutes. Since then a system of c(^- Laws . . . and ma}^ from time to time sub tinuousrevision and consolidation has been mit to the General- Court such proposed carried on by the Senate and House Coun changes or corrections iii the general stat sels. Bill drafting services are. also ren utes as may be necessary," ^ ' . dered by th'e cbunsels.^ Legislative Reference Division, Legislative Reference Division, State Library Massachusetts State Library The Legislative Reference Division of the The IMassachiisetts State Library has Massachusetts State Library was estab- 240 THE BOOK OF THE STATES lished by executive order of the State Ll- advisable, including recommendaiions for • brarian. the repeal of such statutory provisions as have become obsolete. They" recom ORGANIZATION mend legislation to obviate the necessity f&r- Offices oj the Scytate Coumeland the special legislation and from time to time House Counsel » they are particularly directed by law to re- edit and republish the General Laws. Ac • The Senate and House Counsels are cordingly, they have recently published the elected for two-year teiiiTis by the members Tercentenary Edition of the'General Laws of the "Senate and House Coiiimittees on in two volumes. The volumes contain an Rules respectively. Each counsel has an aggregate of 3,279 pages together with a assistant and a secretary. The latter acts separate Index of 1,525 pages.. The coun in each case as Clerk of the Committee on sels also index the Acts and Resolves and Bills in the Third Reading during sessions prepare the annual cumulative table of of the General Court. Both counsels em changes in the general statutes. In addi ploy temporary staffs which vary greatly tion, all state officers and boards submitting in size. They are largest when a conapila- legislation to the General Court are re tion or revision of statutes is being made. quired first to submit.it to the respective counsels. Legislative Rejercnce Division oj the State Library Legislative Rejercnce Division oj the .'.The legislative reference'division is un- State Library . der. the supervision of k. legislative refer ence assistant appointed for an indefinite The department*maintains a current term by the State Librarian. Staff ap •periodical card index and a current events index for newspapers, both filed by subject. .^: pointments are also made for an indefinite ^term by the State Librarian," AH clerical An index is made of the Governor's mes assistants are recruited from civil service sages and a card catalogue of the Massachu lists. , . . Only the legislative-reference as setts legishitors is kept. The Reference Di sistant devotes full time to legislative ref vision exchanges statutes and bills, past, erence service. The twenty-five members present and "uture, in an attempt to build of the State Library staff have occasionally up the bill file, which is indexed by subject. done legislative research^ work during the The Library has an exceptionally good col sessions of the General Court, lection of statutes "and bills. Legislative researches as to the existence a:n"d opera tion of laws on any subjects in any or all LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED states'aremade upon the request of legis Offices oj the Senate Counsel and the lators and department heads. An index of House Cbunsel bills introduced into'the Massachusetts General Court and their legislative travel The functions of thej; Counsel to the is recorded daily. The library material is Senate and the Counsel to the House are very completely and carefully catalogued. identical. They are primarily statutory re The Bureau has never engaged in bill draft vision agencies and bill drafting agencies. ing or statutory revision. This important, . The Counsels virtually constitute the re function is performed entirely by the House spective Committees bn Bills in the Third and Senate Counsels though the Library Reading for they check on the form, lan will cooperate in the furnishing of material guage, constitutionality, etc., of all bills in.any way desired. submitted to said committees, making re-, drafts of such bills, when specific amend ments would not be adequate. They assist^ PERSONNEL •"• members and the comrijittees of the House Counsel to the Senate, WILLIAM E. DOR- and Senate in drafting bills. The Counsels MAN "^ •. also submit to the General Court such pro ' Educdtion: A.B., Harvard, 1898. LL.B., posed changes and corrections in the gen mrvard, 1901. eral statutes as they deem necessary and Offices: Assistant instructor in. history ^ ./ ,,«S3(J LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 241 and government, Harvard University, Alpha Epsilon Chapter at Harvard Uni •1898-1903; Member of House of Repre versity. sentatives, 1907-1909; Draftsman and T^cj/Wewfc.-279 Chestnut St.,.West New Counsel to Senate Committees, 1915- ton, iMass. 1920; Counsel to the Senate, 1920-; Pro Office: State House, Boston, iNIass.' fessor of Constitutional Law, Northeast ern University, 1904-; Trustee, First •"U^niversalist Church, Lynn,Mass.; Trus tee, Walnut Hill School, Natick, jMass. Editor: Tercentenary JEdition of Gen eral Laws of Mass., jointly with Counsel HENRY D. ; to House of Representatives. Contribu "~~WIGGIN' tor to Commonwealth History of Mas ,• • . .1 sachusetts, edited by Albert Bushnel Counsel to the Hart; to legal periodicals. ;Member: Phi'Beta Kappa, Harvard; House Delta Upsilon; Massachusetts Bar As-, sociation; Boston CityClub. i ^^^^^^^^^^BOM.y.i v- ^^^^^Krrn-: ,•• ^^^^^^Ksk^-' r' • ''..-;I^^^^^^^.^''.(Ja^^^^^^HI ^^^^^KlfiLVi^ ••- •M ''-^^^^^^1 i^^m^M ^^^^^^^•^^^ff. ^^ji^^^^^M Assistant Counsel to the Senate, WILLIAM E, FERNALD HUTCHINS ^^^^^HH^H^KI^^'^'f^ i-i? . -^K^^^^^^H DORMAN LL.B., Northeastern L^niversity School •>v of Law,. 1907. . ^ • Assistant Counsel t.o the House, '•• Counsel to the LOUIS K.']\fcNALLv . Senate A.B., Holy Cross, 1911; LL.B.,.'Suffolk ; Law School, 1917. ^Secretary to Senate Counsel, . JAMES F. DELAXEV • LL.B., Suffoik Law School,1926... ^Secretary to House Counsel, RUBIE G, Hf.RSEY Counsel to the House, HENRY D.WIGGIN Colby College for Women, 1914. •Education: A.B., Harvard University, *The secretaries also serve as e.xecutive 1900. LL.B., Harvard, 1902. clerks to the Comriiittee on Bills in the ' . Offiices: Counsel to the House of Rep Third Reading. resentatives, 1920 to date. Librarian, Massachusetts State '• Library, ^ Editor: Engaged in the preparation and EDWARD H. REDSTONE. "editing of the General Laws of Massachu- Education:. Student,Methodist College, . setts (1921).. Edited the Terceh|lnary St. Johns, Newfoundland. Young Men's Edition of the General Laws of Massa Christian Association of Boston.- chusetts (1932), jointly with the Coun Offices: Assistant, Harvard Law Li sel to the Senate. brary, 1900-06. Assistant Librarian, . Member: Massachusetts Bar .Associa Social Law Library, Boston, 1908-13, Li-, tion; Bar Association of the City.of Bos brarian, 1913-19. Librarian, Massa ton. -. chusetts State Library since 1919. Clubs and Organizations: Harvard Club Editor: Massachusetts Citations Table ^ of Boston. Braeburn Country Club (of of English Cases, 1916. ..Newton„.lVIass.). • Tfie Bostqn City Club. Member: American .Association of Law Newton Chamber of Commerce. Neigh- Libraries (Former President). Special .borhood Club (of West Newton). Sigma ..Libraries Association (former Presi- -/• • 242 THE BOOK OF THE STATES dent). Massachusetts Library Club. : Member:'r American Library Associa (Former President). American Library tion. American Association of Law Li Association. . braries. . SpeciaL Libraries Association. Clubs arid Organizations: Boston City Re'sidence:: Kingston, Massachusetts. Club. Office: S.tati-House, Boston. . LiiBRARY FACILITIES Offices of the Counsels The. offices of the Counsels to the Senate and to the House are located immediately EDWARD'H. adjoining the Senate.and House chambers' respectively. The offices are. very well REDSTONE : equipped and conveniently located. Extra room is available for temporary staff mem- State Librarian • bers during legislative sessions or while the Counsels are working on large statutory re vision projects. The office of the Counsel to the House contains well over a thousand volumes of court reports, early statutes, INIassachusetts Revisions, digests, legal texts and many other Married: Alice Eaton Hitchcock. boqks which make up an adequate work Residence: 46 Mount'Vernon Street, ing library. The Counsel to the Senate has Cambridge. a similar library in his office. The Massa O^ce; State House, Boston. chusetts' State Library'is on the same floor of the State House and the counsels also have ready access to the materials of the other great Massachusetts libraries. ETHEL M. Legislative Reference Division of the . State Library TURNER Office Facilities ' Legislative The Legislative Reference Bureau forms Rcjerence an integral part of the IMassachusetts State Library which, is located on the same floor Assistant of the State House as the House and Senate Chambers. ' The office of the State Libra rian is connected by a direct passage with the lobby of the House of Representatives- The stacks of the Library are tiered one above the other ori mezzanine floors, all of -S—.. Legislative Reference Assistant, ETHEL IM.. which open out onto the main floor. .The TURNER • -. Library is growing more crowded eveiy Education: Simmons College, School of year. It is entirely possible that a sepa- Library Science, Boston, 1903-05. . rate building.will be-built to house the Offices: Assistant, Free Public Library, ever increasing: collection. . : Worcester, 1905-10. Assistant, Massa chusetts Agricultural College Library, Boston, 1915-18. Assistant, Massachu- Library. Material I , setts State Library, Boston, 1918-23.. The State Library is maintained pri Legislative Reference Assistant, Massa- marily for the. use of Governor, Lieutenant . chusetts State Library since 1923. ' Governor^ Council,'^General Court and the' LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 243 administrative officers.- It contairis ap . -FINANCES- • ^ proximately 500,000 volumes, pamphlets Offices of the Senate Cotinsel and oj the and documents of various kinds and has one of the most complete collections of foreign House Qounsel . laws* in the world. It has 6,000 congres • . The aggregate expenditures of the Coun sional documents; com'|)lete reports of 355 sel to the Senate and the Counsel to the cities and towns in; thie Commonwealth; House for the last two fiscal years are as 1,400 volumes on fedei"al and state con follows: stitutions, constitutional history, politics, : 1922-33 1923-34 government and political parties. A com Regular Salaries. $3d,234:44 $29,141.69 plete floor is devoted to material on soci Extra Help 2,360.00 2,869.50 ology and another-to one of the finest legal Other Expenses ,1,014.12 711.35 collections in the country. It is impossible Totals $33,608.56 $32,722.54 to estimate the amount of periodicals, clip pings and smaller material. All material Legislative Reference Division of the is meticulously catalogued and readily; : \ .'^State Library . available. * •; • The amount expended for the services of the Legislative Reference Division is not Qther Available Collections segregated from the total expenditures of •I the State Library. In 1933-34 the State The Harvard College Library and "the. Library expenditures amounted to nearly departmental libraries connected with it $53,600. Of this aiiipunt, approximately constitute a very valuable source for im-. $42,000 was for personal services, $1,500 mediate information and material. The for /contingent expenses and $9,000 for material collected by the Boston Public Li^ books and binding. The two assistants in brary, Boston Athenaeum, and the Social the Legislative Reference Division re Law Library are also available to the ceived only $3,420 of the $42,000 spent for Massachusetts State' Library. personal services. •• - . STATE Oi MICHIGAN HISTORY during the period when the legislature is The Michigan Legislative Reference De not in session. A resolution was adoptedby partment was first established on June 28, the Senate in the session of 1931, and iagain 1907,^ a department of the State Library. in the session of 1933, authorizing this offi The original act made no provision for bill cer to maintain the bureau. The staff" is. drafting but such a provision was inserted augmented during the regular sessions of in an amendment of April 25, 1917. In the Legislature by the employment of an 1921 an act.of the Michigan Legislature official bill drafter and such clerks as are transferred the Legislative Reference Bu " deemed-necessary. : , . reau from the State Library to the Legis lature, and Joint Rule No. 16 placed.it un - LAWS AND. AMENDMENTS der the joirit-supervision ot_the Secretary of The Legislative. Reference' Bureau was •the Senate and the Clerk of the House and established as a department of th^Iichigan authorized the employment of a bill.drafter State Library by the .Michigan^Acts of, and necessary clerks during the regular ses .l'907,,Numbe'r 306, page 405; sions of the Legislature. From 1921. the The above act was amended to include work of the bureau was carried on, be bill drafting by the Michigan Acts of 1917, tween sessions, through the offices of the' Number 120, page,,196. Secretary of the.Senate.and the Clerk of Both the above acts were repealed by the 1 - the House. In 1929 the Assistant Secre Michigan Acts of 1921,'Number 71, page tary oi the • Senate maintained the bureau 107.- 244 THE BOOK OF THE STATES The supervision of the Legislative Refer PERSONNEL - ' . ence Bureau was transferred to the. Legis Bureau Librarian, \IAZ-E. V. AVARNER: lature by Act Number 71 of 1921, and Joint • ^fiducation: High School Education, and Rule No. 16, of the Joint Rules of. the, ; Grand Rapids Business College. "House and Senate, placed the bureSti un-. Offices: Michigan Senate Bill Clerk, der the Joint supervision of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. By.resolution adopted in the Senate for two interims preceding the regular,session of 1933, the Assistant Secretary of the Senate maintained and now maintains the bureau during the,interims between-ses sions. ., ALICE \'. • ORGANIZATION WARNER ^ The Legislativie R'eference Bureau is di rectly under the supervision of the Secre Bureau Librari'an tary of the Senate and" the Clerk of the House. \ The'^director/of the Bureau is ap pointed by the Senate:,. and devotes part time to legislative referenoe servic^. The r&mainder of her time is spent in her regu lar capa'city as Assistant Secretary QLthe . Senate. There is no full time. staff. A 1920-28. Assistant Secretary and Fi bill drafter, and such clerks as are deemed nancial' Clerk of the rvlichigan Senate necessary, are employed during legislative since 1928. Served as' Legislative Ref- ^sessions. . The- staff of the Attorneyr . erence Bureau'Librarian since 1921. "^General's Office is also available.during that Residence: 114 Runisey Avenue, Lan- period for bill drafting. ; sing. • , ' . :i _ LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED' Office: Legislative: Reference. Bureau, Senate Chamber, Lansing. The Michigan, Legislative Reference Bureau undertakes some legislative research LIBRARY FACILITIES and bill drafting work. A collection of bills introduced into the Michigan and other Office Facilities /'" 'y state legislatures is maintained and filed by .^ The Michigan Legislative Reference, subject and. a reference library of legisla^ Bureau occupies two large rooms midway tive material; is continually being aug between the Senate and House Chambers mented. A bill drafter is employed during on the second . floor of the State Capitol legislative sessions to draft bills, resolutions, Building. The Michigan Law Library is and arnendments. upon the request of the immediately adjoining and the Michigan Legislative Council, members of the Legis State Library is situated close to the Bureau lature,, arid other state officials. The offices. The offices are very convenient and t' Attorney-General assists in- this service contain adequate floor space for present when the work is too heavy for the regular needs. • „ draftsman. Research /^pn proposed and Library Material - pending legislation jn otiier states as well as on the effect and operation of existing The Bureau maintains files containing statutes" is carried on. The director of the copies of bills introduced into the Legisla Bureau (Assistant Secretary of the Senate) ture. These ej^jtend back oyermany years. The journals of both houses are also kept •tJ': gives full time to legislative reference work during, the interims between sessions. The in the Bureau offices, as are.the Michigan Bureau does not publish any studies or re Reports, reports of Michigan commissions, ports. It does, however, maintain an in annual reports of state departments, and a quiry service. .! scattering of the reports of other states. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 245 Other Library. Collections Available - FINANCES. iThe Michigan State Law Library is very No direct appropriation is' made for leg close to the Legislative Reference Bureau islative reference service in Michigan. The and keeps on file complete sets of the re director draws her salary as Assistant.Secre ports of all th^ states together with numer tary of the Senate and whatever operating ous indexes, law texts, and United States expenses are incurred between sessions are reports. • The ^Michigan State Library ma allowed by the Secretary of the Senate. terials are also imrriediately available for One-half of the operating expenses of the the use of the Bureau. The excellent co bureau during the legislative sessions are operation between the three, departments paid by the Senate and one-half by the operates to their mutual advantage. House of Representatives. .:/ \ ESTATE OF MINNESOTA HISTORY \ published by the Citer-Digest Company and is known as "Mason's INIinneS'tlta Stat No fofrrial department or division of a utes of 1927.^ * >T / department has been officially designated .. ' • . * ..-.•.•.- •.•'f -•.•'••• to render legislative reference services in PERSONNEL • ; Minnesota. Tartial services are performed StatcLihrarian, VAVLDAKSINGBERG. by several official and unofficial agencies. Asst. State Librarian, JOSEPHINE; NORVAL. Attoruey-Gcneral, HARRY H. PETERSON. LEGISL.ATIVE, SERVICES RENDERED The Attorney-General of the State of Bill drafting is done largely by the.mem- Minnesota is very anxious that an official "bers of the Legislature, the Attorney-Gen legislative reference bureau" be set up, as eral and four of his assistants, by members may be judged by the following quotation of the Law. Faculty of the University of, from a recent letter: '.. Minnesota, and by attofneys.hired by the 'T have come to the conclusion that it Legislature itself. Bills are drafted only ^vould be to the public interest to establish upon specific, request of the member desir a Legislative Reference and Bill Drafting ing the service. During:legislative sessions ^Bureau. This .should be underiTie super five men deyote their entire time to bill vision of the Legislature, and I believe it drafting. ; \ • " could do miich constructive work. . The Legislative reference arid- research work Attorney-General's office has a large volume ^ is done by ^.ihe State Library, which is of.businessto attend to, and we find that housed in the State Capitol. the work which we do for the Legislature The last revision of the Minnesota stat is an additional .heavy burden. Other busi utes" was made by a Commission >vhich ness is delayed" arid consequently suffers to published "The Minnesota Revised Stat some extent, and we would welcome the utes of 1905." Since that tirne various com- establishment of an agency which would • pilations, made by law'yers employed f"Dr take over this legislative service. > Lbelievej the purpose or authorized to do so as a that money spent for a Legislative Refer privateyenture, have been ordered by the. ence, and Bill Drafting Bureau would be legislature. The last private compilation— well spent.'WHarryH. Peterson, Attornej'-^ cyie which is regarded as authoritative—was General. . ' 246 THE BOOK OF THE STATES STATE OF MISSISSIPPI . HISTORY Attorney-General's Office \ A legislative reference , department or The Attorney-General drafts bills upon bureau has never "been officiaily set up in the i-equest of the legislators. jMississippi. > However since one of the pri- .mary aims and -purposes, of the State Li- PERSONNEL • brary has been fo render services to the State Librarian, RENA LLOYD HUMPHREYS Legislature, many legislative reference fiinc- .' Edii^dtion: Port Gibson Female College, tians have b.^en assumed .by tlie State Li Port Gibson, Mississippi. brarian. Offices: Librarian, Greenwood Public ORGANIZATION '....• . • . f" TKe State Librarian is elected for a four^ year term by a' joint session of the "^Mis sissippi Senate and-iioflse of Representa-. lives. The-Libraryis governed by .a Board of Trustees,^Qflfnposed of the Governor, the R^NA LLOYli Attorney-General, and the six Judges of the Supreme Court. The Governor as Chair-. HUMPHREYS- • hian of the Board approves the staff.ap pointments of the Librarian. No. definite State Librarian. approprfation has ever been made for l^iS- Vative reference work nor has legistetive ac tion been taken to set up a legislative refer ence division, but some legislative teftrence . service is rendered by the State Librarfan and the Assistant Librarian during sessions ^ of the Legislature. . • ' • /• ;•':' .^ •'. • ' •.'•' • ' '• • Liht^fy, Greeh^^|)od,^^Iississippi. State . REFERENCE SERVICES RENDERED Librarian since 1932. ", ^ Monbc^ State Chairman, Social Sci- ^ "•• Stqte. Library / . ence Research; State Chaifman, Ameri- •The,Library was created ih 1838 as a •caa Library Association Membership general state library, \vith no limitafeions as Coinmittee; ^Member of State Committee to its scope or service. Through general for the'Education of the Civilian-Con . usage and under the supervision of the trus- servation Corps i"^ Mississippi Poetry ^tees, it has developed into an extensive legal Society. , - " . '.and general reference library, serving pi-i- i?c5/Wcffrc; r-Jackson, Mississippi; marily the state. officials, members „of the Office: State Capitol, Jackson, Miss. Supreme Court, legislators, and lawyers.' Assistant Librarian, MA-SIIE OWEN While the Legislature is in session all rou-, tine and general office'work is postponed Attorney-General, GREEKr-L. RICE . ; .and legislative reference service is given first . LiBR.ARY FACILITIES :, consideration, r The Librarian has.arranged Offices ' • a comprehensive file of material on currerit The State Libra^'y'is lo.cated;.in,the new legislative projilems, w^ich is. available for instant reference. -Irj addition, there is a State Capitol and is readily accessible to source-bibliography of all available Jnfor- ^ the House and Senate Chambers^. The facil matibn. The bibliography is alphabetically ities are adequate as the Library was re 4 'arranged and is constantly revised and kept modeled in 1926. ;. \ . . up to date. Before eacJv legislative sessionj * . ' Library '.. such jnaterial as is deemed immediately im- The Library contains the following ma- ' portant is secured and fileqi. t^ial:- State reports, session acts, statutes '. ">' • .' :• \ ••u yf LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 247: and codes; United States reports, session In addition to this legal material, there is acts, statutes and codes; English and Ca a well selected reference department, -> nadian reports, session acts, statutes,^and codes; National reporter systems, with di . FINANCES gests and Shepard's citations; miscellaneous ^„ The only appropriation made to the Li reports; text books covering all legal sub brary by the Legislature is for general li jects; and legal, and literary periodicals. brary purposes. STATE OF .MISSOURI HISTORY . fcmporary^B^lp is employed during sessions . A regular legislative reference or bill • of the General Assembly. . drafting service has never been created in LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED \ .Missoiiri. In 1909, an act ^yas approved . which provided for the establishment of a The "General Assembly employs clerks library for the exclusive use of the members after each session to index the bills enacted. of the General Assembly to :be,(.located at All of the i;^.{erence work is done by the %.' the Capitol. This libr,ary.was.to- be under "Secretary of the Commission. The service the control of the House or Senate during is confined to making materials available sessions and under the secretarjPbf thee for use by the legislators. Missouri Library Commission at other Bill drafting is done by the Attorney- tiriies. " ^" . GeneraV upon request. Legislative revision At present the Missouri Legi^ative Ref is done every ten years iDy a-committee erence Library is of no ^^ue and is locked of members appointed by the General As between sessions. Several bills have b^en . sembly,* ^ 'introduced providing for a real reference " , , - PERSONNEL^ service modeled ox\ those of successful bu reaus, but all have failed., • %• \ Secretary to. Missouri. Library Commission, The Secretary of. the State Library Cpm- RUTH O'MALLEY mission does Ks much legislative reference • Education: A.B., St. Mary's College,' work and "research for. legislators as he'r South Bend, Ihdiana/1919. -Graduate, time and facilities perrnit. — . New York State Library School, Albany, • : 1924.-; - LAWS XND AMENDMENTS • Offices:. Librarian, .Branch Library, St. The. establishment of the library of t,h.e Joseph,' Missouri, 1924r31. Reference Qeneral Assembly was provided for*in Mis Librarian, Missouri Library Commis-, souri, Acts, 19G9, p.a653. ^ .^ sion, 1931-33., Secretary, Library Com - The Missouri'Liorary Commission was mission since 1933. ' established by the Acts of the Forty-fourth . ' Member: American Library Associa General Assembly, 1907; '" '. , , tion, Missouri Library Association.. - Residence: ^Wymore" Apts., Jefferson ; - ORGANIZATION .-City. ,;. : -.-^ ' Office: State Capitol' Jefferson City. \ The library commission is composed of five, ^members, three regular and\ two ex. LIBRARY- f^AeiLiTiES-'r officio, appf)inted by the governor for a six year term./; The Superintendent.of Public .'Offices • Schools dndlthe President of the Slate Uni- The library of\ the General. Assembly, yersity'.are^ tlie ex officio members. ."and the offices of the Library Commission iA-secretary appointed by the Corrimis- are In the Capitol Building. The Capitol sidners to serve at their pleasure. devotes Building, erected in 1912, is modern in its part" time to legislative reference. - No ifacilities. - .X 248 THE ROOK OF THE ST A TES Library Material periodicals. This Library is housed in the Supreme Court Building which is adjacent The Library of the General Assembly to the capitol. contains only a few ol.d bills and law re ports. However the State Library from FINANCES . which legislators are entitled to take books" No special appropriation has ever been -—contains, 42,900 volumes of law; 11,000 made for the Library of the General As United States Government documents; 18,- sembly. The legislative reference work is ^ 500 state documents and 4,000 volumes of so small that ho part of the expenditures.of legal text books. There are numerous laws .. 4he Library Commission or State Ls^Mry of foreign nations, files of newspapers ancf could be charged "against it. ' , / y \ STATE OF MONTANA HISTORY „ » constitutionality and interpretation of A Legislative'Reference Bureau was'es- laws." tablished in connection with the Historical . ,• ORGANIZATION 'and Miscellaneous Department of the Mon The Legislative Referenc^Bureau is- or- tana State Library by an act of the .Legis . ganized as ^a^ division of the State Law lature approved M^h 4, 1909. The State Library which is a Department of the State Librarian wa^ authorized to delegate^he Library. The assistant law librarian who assistant Statgj Librarian to carry on the 'is in charge of the Bureau &nd who devotes functions designated in this^ct. $3NO was full time to legislative .reference service'is appropriated annually for the purchase of appointed for an indefinite term^ by the legislative materials. The law-of 1909 was State Librarian.^ There .is'ho other :Staff repealed in 1921 and a legislative reference andvno temporary staff members^ are em- bureau "was established in connection with- • ployefd during legislative sessions.: ' the Law Department af the State Library, The bureau was placed in the charge of an LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED assistant who received'$1,500 per year.^ The Montana Legislative Reference This salary was increased to $1,800 per year ^ Bureau undertake^ library service and some by an amendment in 1929. legislative research for members of the Leg islative Assembly and other state officials. LAWS AND AMENDMENTS Filesr of all bills introduced- into (^he Leg The bureau was originally established,by islative .Assembly are kept fof re^dy ref Montana, Acts of 1909, Chapter 65, pVge erence and an index to all bills introduced \-,*>^ .79,. This law was repealed anc^the bureau, is prepared at the end of each session for transferred to the Law.Department of the permanent reference. All special requests •State Library by an act passed in 1921 for legislative research are^han"dled as facili , which provided, '.'That/^there.shall be' es- ties pert^t. The Law Librarian assists ;by ' t^blished arid conducted in connection with •_\cond.uctiri g research in statutory law and the Law Department of the 5-tate Library • court, deoisions. -• a Legislative Referenjce Bureau. ^The ob- The legislg.tive bill drafting: is carried on i-jeGt-of^said-BuxeauT-in-charge--ofjithe J.if •largely-^by.- ithe. office - of the Attorney- brarian of the State Library, shall be to General, and during sessions an assistant gather and fnalvef'available such information ' Attorney-Genej^aliS detailed to thp Refer as shall aid the members of the Legislature ence Bureau fbr this purpose. The Bureau in-the discharge of their duties; and to helps him with the necessary^researdi, Thfe collect information^ as^ta-what legislation depiand for this service is so great during has been enacted upon important subjects sessions that little car^ can be used in the in other states, and legal data as to the ; Gompilatiori^of material, The-Law Libra-' 1^ . < LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 249 rian also drafts bills for mfeibers Avhen his cated on the first floor—a very inconvenient manyoth^ duties permit. . .• . arrangement during legislative, sessions as Statutory revision is done in the office of all • Departmental Reports and the House th^Code Commissioner. One», man de and Sfenate Journals of the various states. votes Jul! time to tats work. '. '' United States Documents, and the State Newspapers are.housed there.. PERSONNEL «*»»• State Law Librarian, ASHBURN K.BARBOUR • Library Material Assistant to Law Libranan and Legislative The room usod by .the Legislative Ref .''Reference Bureau Librarian, erence 'Bureau contains pamphlet laws, ADELINE J, CLARKE '' \ clippingk/and books on subjects of currfent \ Education.: A.B., yniver'sity of Chicago, : interest to the legislators-. The Bureau sul> -r . 1919. • . . - • ' • ' scribes to a number 'of periodicals which Offices; Assistant to Law Librarianuind deal witji governmental' and le&l subjects. proper Office Facilities gifowth of the Bureau. Funds from the - • The Legislative. Reference Bureau .is State Law Lihi^^ry ,Have been used sparingly ''•'••'. situated in a room ^adjoining the* State to buy some of the most .necessary* ma Law Library on the third flolor,ofth e Capi- terial.; In 1933 the" Legislative'Assembly - . tol Building. The House and Senate Appropriated $150 for the biennium 1933- chambers are on the same.floor. The His- 35 but there have been periods when ^lo ap-" -. torical and Miscellaneous "Library is lo-, propriations were made at all. STATE OF NEBRASKA HISTORY bfaska has a unique and effective Bureau , Legislative reference, service* was inau whichis very-ably directed and Judiciously gurated in Nebraska under an appropriation advised. . . . .« act'.of 1907 which .contained an item in the .LAWS 'AND AMENDMENTS State" Historical Society apprbpriatiorL . -^,. . . , ., "forjabor and supplies in legislative refer-^ The origmal appropriation .act provid, ence' department."- An act -specifically ing funds .for legislative reference serjice ' creating a Legislative Reference Bureauwas was passed as Nebr^aska Acts, 1907, Chap ^approved April 7, 1911^ „ This prescribed ter 168, pa|?e 55.2. f ' the usual duties and in addition provided The Bureau' was formally setupliiftl^r" t'hat the Bureau shall "maintain, a special Nebraska Acts, 1911, Chaj^ter 72, pag| service upon munitipal/subjects-for'the use '310. •.•;. ,•,..; • \':':, .• • :... \ of dty and village officials." The Bureau ORGANIZATION •,..-• is affi^ated with the Department of Politi • The act provides that the difector and as cal Science, and "Sociology and wth the Col sistant, director shall be appointed by the' lege'' of Law in the^ State University. Ne- board "of regents of the University pf iS'er •v.4-.•;•••'•-"''v.-; •••:•••'•"•••"•'••• V ' *. 250 X THE BOOK OF THE STATES braska for ah indefinite term. The-"staff Office's: Secretary, Nebraslca Public Li is appointed by the director for temporary . brary Commission, 1901-06. Acting Li terms. At the present time the director and brarian, Nebraska State Normal School, as.sistant director devote full time to legis Peru, 1909. Edit,or and Indexer, H. \Vi- lative-reference service. From ten to fifteen Wilson Company, Minneapolis, 1909-11. 'temporary staff members are employed dur Librarian, Nebraska Legislative Refer ing legislative sessions.. ^ . . ence' Bureau ,1911-17,1918-21. With •North ' CaroHna Legislative Reference"" LEGISLATIVE SERVICE.RENDEI^D Library,, Raleigh, 1916. :. Indexer with \^ Red Cross; Washington, D. C, 1917--18., The.' Nebraska I^egislative Reference Director, Nebraska Legislative Reier- Bureau not only answers all inquiries com ".ence Bureau since. 1951.: ing' in firom the. citizenry at .large but .en : Member: .American Library Association, courage and advertises, its servic%;by pre paring and distributing pamphil'ts and Nebraska League of Women "Voters. 'manuals and by disseminating information ' jClubs and Organizations: ., University through gov'ernrnental and leducaliohal in fClubj Ljncoln. " '" » stitutions. The permanent staff of the / Itesidcnc€: 1100 • North„_.37th Street, '• Bureau, devotes its full time to collecting, Lincoln. ", .^•^--" , ^ - , , catalog'uing, editing, and. publishing ma \. "Office: Rooms 108-11 Library Hall, terial on governmental •subjects^'in*general University of Nebraska,.Lincoln./ and particularly pn Nebraska affairl Much Assistant Direct6iP,~LoviSE A. NIXON of this material has been distributed to leg-. . LIBRARY FACILITIES •• .islators^^to other public officers, and to pub-1 lie school and college libraries in Nebraska ) : \'Office Facilities' and in other states and countr*^ The • The Nebraska Legislative Reference Li Bureau also publishes the state Blue Book. brary has four rooms .for its office and During the sessions of the legislature in library Ui:,?the University library building. formation, on topics under consideration is It also has some storage spacejit another-.• gathered, by all means available and digests, building. Since only the most useable ma charts and statistics are- prepared upon re terial is kept in the Bureau's own library quest. The Bureau. renders assistance in the floor sf^ace is considered adequate. drafting bills, motions, briefs, resolutions, ' At present'three roorns in the Capitol are and committee reports. It also makes an used by the Bureau during legislative ses index of bills classified by subject. .It has sions but the! House of Representatives worked with numerous special corhmissions, 'Upon- request of the Bureau set. up a cbnir and it acts as a -municipal research agency mitte/ to secure and equip permanent for Nebraska cities and villages. In order quarters for th6 legislative service. Since- ip jDerform this unusual service adequately . the Bi^reau decided that; it can work; to e-'ISureau rr\^intains a special' file of ma better advantage when it is not"too acces- terial on matters of municipal interest. isible to.lobbyists and the general*public, Formerly'the Bureau trained^udents of. 'these new offices, will not be on the maiii . theyUniversity in legislative reference work . floorwit h the legislative chambers. • and Mil draftirig. This service has been discontinued; but a limited 'number of • Library Material / students are still taken on as apprentices to The Nebraska Bureau contains approxi receive instruction and gain experience in mately 40,000 pieces of material.classified, i. librariy service. • >. ; . by a modified «Dewey-Decimal system J- originally worked' out by. the Wisconsin \^ . . -PERSONNEL . Bureau. *The library^ consists largely, of * Director, Legislative Reference Bureau, clippings, pamphlets', reports, digests, bulle 'X .EDNA D. BULLOCK ' tins, periodicals and a few books. Located, Education: . B.L.S., New York State Li- asiit is, in the University libVary building, ; • brary. SchQol, Albany, 1885. B..L.", Uni .duplication of "the contents of the state's versity- of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1^89, - largest library is avoided, but close^oopera- 7 • -r r •••.,.'V A- -. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 2*^1 tion is maintained with the larger library has access to the University Library which and its contents freely drawn upon. Every is located in the same.building and which , other year- the legrslativelibrary eliminates contains over 275,000 volumes! " material which is. obsolete for its purposes The State Library—located in the Capi and turns it'over to the University Library. tol—contains over 100,000 volumes. It is It is the policy of the Bureau to refrain a particularly excellent law library. Bureau^ frorn acquiring or cataloguing rfiaterial members ^may take books to their offices, in which is duplicated, in several other li- the Capitol and keep tKem as long as they '-braries. " r desire. \ , The Bureau hbrary is also used as arefer- ence library by. the whole state.. 'M'ail sery- '\ . • • FINANCES • ice is constantly increasing. The only cost • ii • • , • . to borrowers is the postage. ' . ^y The total appropriations and expendi- .tiires for the Nebraska Legislative Refer Other Library Collections Available ence Bureau for the two bienniums 1929 As stated above,-the Nefliraska Bureau and 1931-are as follows: Appropriation 1929-30- 1931-32 1933 General • ;^ ^ . •" $19>000 $15,000 $12^500 Bluebook Manualy etc. 3,0t)0/ 4',a00 • 4,000 Special Sessions .l,500if total: . $22,000 $20,500^^ ,$16,500 Expenditures Salaries . |10,000 . $ 9,000 Est. Wages during Sessions \ "^- '7,000 Est. '6,000 Est. Another -\ "t \ ' 2,000 Est. . 1,500 • Bluebook, etc. 3,000 4,000 Total ^ $22,000 $20,500 . 1 \STATE OF NE FAD J, ^: , -^ •., ', HisTORYV LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENiDERED In 1914 the 'Nevada 'Bar Association The attorneys are employed by the Legis made an appropriation to create ,an un- lature to draft and revise bills upon the re offi.cial and voluntary legislatjve reference quest of legislators. The state printing and bill drafting bureau'to aid the-legisla office compiles the session law^ after each ture. . It was felt that such service should session.. v' • • be immediately available withoiist waiting for the legislature to inaugurate It. • The PERSONNEL •.. Bar Association also believed that a demon Senate Bill Dr-djter,' A. J. MAESTRETTI,< stration oi the value of the service would 1933.::;,^ ;.;.,_;,..,:v_^-^:.:::;.:._.; __...•.:.,:;.: perhaps, convince' the Nevada Legislature Assembly Bill Drafter, JAMES D. -FJNCH, o,L0e n\ed for such a bureau. Although 1933. .•• •;..-. />,;• • •-'•/^. • '. rseryice created a good irripression ho . offici^J-'bureau was formed.- Since the 1932 . ,; .FINANCES ' sesSioji the ..Legislature has employed'two. The attorneys' f^e^ are paid from a busir . lawyers from Reno to serve the'Senate.and liess fund set up,.foi^4fegJLise"of the Legis ^^Assembly during legislative sessions. lature. • i^-; V r-. .V ••\.', A» 252 THE BOOK OF THE-STATES STATE OF NElf-HAMPSHIRE HISTORY \ PERSONNEL The Legislsfeive Reference Bureau of Z/Z>rfl;7G«, THELMA. BRACI^ETT the New Hampshire State Library wasv Education: A.B., L^hiversity of Cali created by an act approved ISIay 21, 1913. fornia, Berkeley, 1919. California State. The State Librarian under whose control Library School, Sacramento, 1920. . the Bureau was placed, was directed to sup • Offices:. Assistant* Librarian, San Luis ply the., usual legislative reference services, Obispo County Free Library, 1921. Li to prepare abstracts of laws in other "States, brarian, Siskiyou County, California, to supply desired information and to draft . 1922-25- Librarian, Newark Museum, bills. Because State Library , appropria Newark, New Jersey, 1925-30. Li- tions, were/ insufficient and no se{iarate l^rarian, New Hampshire State Library financial provision was made,-the service. since IVIarch, 1933. • / • has never been adequately performed. At Residence: 33 Franklin Street, Concord. the present time the trustees are makingan '•Office: State Library, Concord, ^New effort to establish an efficient and permanent • Hampshire. • .' f • • • • ' • •" > • legislative reference service. • .; LIBRARY'FACILITIES LAWS, AND A-AIENDMENTS / Office Facilities • Burejiu'' established, New Hampabire). The State Library is located in-the New Acts,'1913, p. 761. • Hampshire State Library Building adjacent Service increased, New Hampshire, Acts, to the. State House. The Library Building 1917, p. 511. . : .. is faltly modern, but is totally unsuitable for library work. : , „ ORG.ANIXATION . Library Alaterial > • The Librarian is afppointed by the Bqard The State Library contains approxi- of Trustees of the State Library for three" •mately 190,000. pieces of material. The- years. The stxiff is appointed' by the Li- pieces in each classification—books, pam braBian subject to the approval of the phlets, periodicals,'" etc.—have not been Board. None^qlj^he five staff members de counted. A large part of the,-entire collec vote full tin^efto-'IegislativG reference serv.^ tion consists of legal publications and state ice and ho temporary stjiff m'embers are repVts which are of i^alue to legislative employed during legislative session^^. - ref-erence service. LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED/'^ '•^-\ _ ' •• . . FINANCES..- . • ' • • . e New Hampshire State Library at the There has been no special appropriation resent time, is organizing, a legisl^atiye. made: for the Legislative Reference Division. refereDce service with the help of Emergency The services- were to be provided as a Relief Administration workers. Informa regular function of the Stiite Library but tion is being gathered and compilations appropriations liave always been so meager made on subjects to com? before the cur that adequate service has never been pos . j^- rent legislature. "No drafting and revision sible. The total .^nual expenditure of the services are performed except; by tlvs staff New Hampshire^State Library is less than of the Attorney-Generars office. • • -?20,ooo. • ' •":.; . .:: STATE OF;NEJI^iJERSEYy- ' - - . HiSTORY • " '\ serve legislators arid other state officials By an act, approved Alarch 18, 1914, a was creiiied within the -State Library. •. legislative; reference bureau designed to Another'.act of 1914 created the office Qf ••... 1-. ••' ,\ •. '• - ''^ •.'.••"•....":. •'-';.-"••' • . ':•• '• '.^ -\ , •.•• •. • '. • J;! .-;;..;__,. .••,;•-•.--••• •...•• • :•-••,• ',•'..- . : . . Q •• "{*> LEGISLAXIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 253 Legislative Advisor and Bill Examiner at < PERSONNEL , $1,500 a" year. This official acted during State Librarian,JiADUo^ IVINS ^->. thc'session of 1915 but not in 1916 as no Assistant Librarian, JOHN P. DULLARD appropriation was made. The law. was re Education: Educated in private schools. pealed in 1917^. ' O/to.-. Railway Mail-Service, 1885-89. • LAWS AND AMENDMENTS Trenton Correspondent of the »Associ- New Jersey, Acts, 1914, Chapter 29, jfage 44 provides that: "It shall be the duty of the State Librarian to collect and keep-con- st&ntly up to. date . . . such information and material as will furnish the fullest in formation practicable upon all matters per JOHN P. taining to current or proposed legislation DULLARD . * or any. legislative or administrative prjDb- lems, and to prepare to submit digests of Assikant. . such information and material upon request Librarian [oi any legislative comrnittee or any mem ber of the* Legislature." J _ ' ' ORGAlvfIZATK)N • } The legislative service is' under rae general supervision: of the State librarian . who is appointed for -arfive year term by ated Press, 1894-1918. Trenton Board the State Library Corpmission. The pres . of Assessors, 1899-1914. .State Li ent term ends May 28, 19.39. Thec^iimis- brarian, Trentpn, New Jersey, 1914-19, sion .is headed by the Governor. The li • .19.24-29. Assistant Librarian; 1919-24,, ' brary staff is appointed by the Librarian 1929 to present time. . . .. for indefinite terms and all but the As- . • Member: Trenton Board of Education .sistant Librarian are recruited from civil since 192^. Board of Trustees of State service lists. The. Assistant Librarian is Empkiyees' Retirement System since; directly in charge of the legislative refer 1921. American Library Association, ence service.. None of the library staff de-. American .Association of Law Libraries, *vote fulltime to .-this service nor are any National Association of State Libraries. . temporary staff members employed. during Clubs and Ort^anis-dtions: Elks, Knights - legislative sessions. * ' ' of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hiber- . • • ' ••• •. • ' • ' » ' . • • . • . LEGISJ-ATIVE SERVICES RENDERED • nians. •• •. <> •"••,:• . Married: \\/i|ft>wer; • The Department makes no extended re-. Ojicc: Stato^Library, Trenton. ''"" ^\ search studies. When ihformation along, particular lines is sought, all available ma-, LIBRARY F.ACILITIES terial is gathered and placed at the dis V •^; Office Faciliiies-:, • • V •^ posal of thie inquirer.' Copie:s of all bills and ' • • •' "••••* .J .amendnfents .to t'h^m introckiced in the The State Library—located on the ground legislature togetherwi^h a daily corrected. ; floor of the State House Annex-^consists of" . record of the status of each are kept. At ; four large ro)oms. .The reading room is aV ~~tlrel:lose'l)f"the~ses'sion"ir"PescriptiV^^^^ 'siirgle~roonr,~one end';qf^which:is^levotecl'to^ of all laws enacted-is compiled and printed. the GeneraL Library andu-t-he-other'end to • VJi' This Hst is. in very great demand and ap- \ the Law Library. This..room has appro.yi- proximately 5i000 copies are distributed mately 7,500 square leet of .floor space, and annually.. No bill drafting service; is ren-. over 6,000 lineal feet, t)f shelving. .-The dered by the Library. This work, is done offices ct)ntain al)out 3,500 square feet and. • in the office of the Attorney-General who are Equipped with the usual office furniture.- has a regular staff of aipable,lawyers.. /rhe two stack rooms have, abc)ut 30,000 ^i' :^ •• i •' :.±.i:,: JJ9;-—-,.i v/*- 254 THE BOOK OF THE STATES lineal: feet of shelf space.. In the reading The Dewey Glassification System is used in room" there are six ahelves to a stack; in the General Library while the. Law Library the stack room, there are seven. The li uses an original-system of call numbers and, brary estimates that it has shelf space for "the Library of Congress cards. the next ten years. 'Fli^ANCES . ' • ' Library Materials • The annual appropriation to the State The State Library-has nearly. 160,000 Library for the fiscal year,' 1933-34 was volumes divided about, equally between the $29,340 and for the. present fiscal year, General Library and the Law Library. 1934-35 is $29,740. The appropriations The material used in legislative reference are made* anmially. It is not possible to work is not separately classified, arranged, estimate how much of -this money is ex- or catalogued but is placed in the library "pended on the legislative reference service as the character of the material dictates. phase of the wort of the Library. - , ; STATE OF NEW MEXICO : • / HISTORY of the members of the legislature. The bill In 1921 "the Legislature of New Mexico drafting service is" available only .'during enacted a law creating, a Legislative Re-^ or immediately prior to sessions of the vision Committee, to be composed of the legislature. ' . Assistant Attorney-General and' the Law Clerks of the Supreme Court. The purpose -• "^. " PERSONNEL , .of this commission was,to present better bills to the state legislature. Since? ^1921 .l/^grncy-GcHf^ra/,.Frank H. Patton. • . the position ofJLaw Clerk of the Supreme -Court has been abolished. The work is . • - FINANCES. - ;i • . '••• • • now carried on by the Attorney-Generq,l and . his assistants. •Bill drafthig is carried-on as a regular function of the Attprney-Generars Office. LEGISLATIVE -SERVICES/RENDERED . No special or sepa?»ate appropriations, are Bills are written or revised at the request made, for this wor!i<,- ' ^ . '~~ . ST A TE OF NEW YORK .• ... V. ^ •»>•-.•••-.• Dr. R. H. Whi^ten, the Sociology Division HISTORY worked out an annual digest of and index • Legislative Reference Section oj^ to the current legislation of all of the states _New York State .Library in the union and. also gathered material A legislative reference section of the New in the field of tj\e social sciences for the ' \ York State Library was established in 1890 use of the legislators. Gradually the duties ^by orde^'^f"the "I)irec0rr9f^hT'StatT^ti^ lof~thirdepart7nprt~TreTe~"enla^fg l^rary, and is,, therefore, the oldest legis grew into the^present Legislatiye Reference lative reference service in America; How- Sectit)n of the State Library. The original .'everj the service was not created in. the. intention.of keepiiig an index of air state State Library as a" legislative reference, bu- legislation from 1.890 survived until 1911, "rea'u but rather as the Sociology Dmsion; wHen a fire destroyed the ihde.xes which •organized^ by Dr.. Melyil Dewey in 1890. had been cbmplete'd through 1908. The Under the leadership of Ai. B. Shaw and: partially completed, indexes of 1909.and LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 2SS " 1910 were reconstructed and those for 1911 Revision Committee Abolished, New York, andJ912 completed but lack of funds pre • Acts, 1900, Chap. 664. , . vented their publication. The/entire serv Legislative Bill Drafting Commission^ New ice has been discontinued since-1912, to the York, Acts, 1901, .Qhap. 88. - '. , disadvantage of several: states which used Duties of the Commission, New York,' this material rftgulkrly, though its place is Con. Laws, 1909, Chap. 37. . " •now filled by the biennial State Law Index ' Duties of the Commission, New York, Acts, of the Library of Congress. The New 1913, Chap. 812. ; . ' York Legislative Reference Section rapidly Duties of the Commissi,on, New York, Acts, developed into one of the finest state leg- 1916, Chap. 32. . / islatiye reseairch organizations in the'United index of Statutes,'New Y'ork,.Acts, 1917, States, The bill drafting service is rendered Chap. 332. ..by a separate agency.. _ '.",'• " „••'<•'• QRGANIZATION Legislative Bill Drafting Commission' - Legislative Reference Section of the Expert bill drafting was considered in State Library New York as early as May, 1691; when the. The New York State Library is a part Assembly requested the Governor to ap of the'State Department of Education and point a person or agfency for that purpose. is under the supervision of the Board of The problem was forgotten for nearly 200 Regents of the University of the State of years, until in 1885 the Governor pointed Ne\v York ai^d the Commissioner'of Edu out, in his annual message, that 45 bills had cation. The Director of the State Library to be recalled for amendments or correc is appointed for an indefinite term by the tions in 1883 and in 1884 fifty more bills Board of R,egents under- the St^te Civil were equally poor.as to form and content. Service Law. The librarian and-staff. of.% He also said that a great amount ol valu the Legislative Reference Section are ap able legislation was lost because'he wa^ not pointed for indefinite terms from, civil serv able to approve poorly drafted^ bills. It ice lists by the Board'aof Regents upon the was impossible to return poor legislation to recommendations of the Director of the . an adjourned legislature. In 1893 a law State Library.. A staff of eight devotes full ;\was {Massed requiring a Statutory Revision time to legislative reference service. No Committee to draft or revise.bills,'or rencier temporary staff members are employed dur opinion^ as to constitutional defects upon ing legislative sessions. request. This Committee wa? little used and was abolished in 1900. The following year . Legislative Bill Drafting Commissiqn a new act was passed providing for a com The tvvo coiTimissioners are appointed by mission of three appdinted by the President the President-prp-tem of the Senate and the pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker . Speaker gf the Assembly and serve^during - of the Assembly. The three commissioners , .their pleasure. The Deputy Commissioner were to provide expert aid in.bill drafting. and Counsel-to t;he Commission are ap " -^hese men became known as the Legislat'ive pointed by the Commissioners; as are the Bill Drafting Comntission. Their duties ' clerical and secretarial staff. The staff con were outlined by an act approved February sists of twenty-two full, time employees in - 17, 1909 and amended by acts approved 'addition to the Commissioriers and counsel. \ December 12,1913 and March 9, 1916. Several temporary clerks ai;e employed dur- An afit Q f Mjay 3, 1917, provided for- prepa- ing legislature sessions. •••••.: ~r1iti6h5^i^hF~Bill:^Drifting7Commission7' '^ of an ind^x of statutes and made an ap- ' LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED propriatipn for this purpose. • «J '• Legislative Refer/^nce Sectio^^ of the :\ ' • . . •:', ''•_•' : ' 1 • '\ ••''••••'.' '. • ?• •; V. State Library n , ' '-LAWS AND. •AMENDMENTS . • • • _..•.•"•*_ r •• The Legislative Reference Section is p/i-» ''Statutory.Revision Committee, New York, marily an agency for research. It renders • Acts, 1893, Chap. 4/J excellent serviceio .legislators, state officials 256 THE BOOK OF THE STATES arid to countless agenciesj associations, or -ality^ consistency or effect of proposed leg ganizations and individuals.'. Among its islation and recommend changes in word many functions are the receiving, .collecting, ing and form. The Commission examines checking, cataloguing and arranging of for-, the general laws and-reports to the Legisla eign, federal, state and mugicipal docu ture such amendments aa it deems advis ments and other materials on subjects of able to bring the coVisoliyated laws up to legislative interest. A complete file of bills date. An hidex of tne New Yorjk statutes ar-fanged by subject is kept. The Refer was made and is supplemented after each ence Section operates a very fine inquiry session of the Legislature. The Commis service. In addition to answering-counf- sion may, upon; the request of either house vle'ss inquiries and supplying innuliierable or committees of the Legislature conducjt references arid reference materials, the Sec-, research on any subjects of proposed legis tion completes every year several intensive lation. The close cooperation which exists factual studies on questions vital To tlje between the Bill Drafting Commission and social and industrial well-being of the Mate. the Legislative Reference Section, reduces Such subjects as water supply; pollution overlapping and duplication of activities. of waters; transmission of power; ^bovine tuberculosis; banks and anvestment trusts; PERSONNEL unemployhient; administration of Justice; Legislative Reference Section. Librarian, and taxation and retrenchment are studied, WILLIAM E. HAN NAN and reported to the various committees, Education:, A.B., University of Ne commissions or officials requesting the irl- braska, 1907. Graduate work. Uni formation.^ Extensive bibliefgraphies are. versity dt Nebraska, 1908 and 1912-13. .furnished and reports • are digested or Offices: Assistant Director, Nebraska . loaned. Since 1916 the Section has made Legislative Reference Bureau, 1907-15. over 625 typewritten, original research Librarian, Legislative Reference Section, .studies. The-Legislative Reference Sec-, New York State Library, since 1915. • tion prepares periodical legislative bulle Member: Phi Beta Kappa. American tins during legislative sessions.. It keeps a Library Association. * "^ travel index of all bills introduced into the Married: Janet MacClymont. .." • ' Legislature and riiajntains a bill delivery Residence; 74 Glendale, Avenue, Al service to legislators and some state offi bany. •. ". .. . ^ ' cials. Letters are sent to all of the mem Office:, State Library, x'Mbariy.'' bers of tlie New York St'ate Legislature Research Associate,''MRS: ELIZABETH M. 'inquiring as to subjects which will be of 'HENNING - . • 'interest at the coming sessions. Every ef- Research Associate, MRS. JUNE LAMBERT - fort is made to obtain and reserve material Research Associate, ANTOINETTE WAGNER on these subjects for Tegislatjve use.^ Most Research Associate, HELENIsl. WURTHMAN of the major sti^dies are typewritten and SeXretary,^l-R?,. HELEN P. POWERS listed with Public Affairs Information Secretary, ELIZ.ABETHM. DQ.OLEY. Service. A vast number'^^jf exchanges are Clerical Assistanf%VETEis. LARSON kept up in addition to this. The Section issues a very detailed activity report every Legislative Bill Drafting Com7mssio?i year. , . , />- Commissioner, BENibN S. RUDE •Legislative BUI Drafting Commission Commissioner, JOUNK.CONRQY • The Legislative Bill Drafting; Gommis-. Deputy Commissioner, ROBERT E. CONG- ~5ron~nwTTtain's^^1njffiirriiTl"hr*St^^ tol, which is open frorh Septenriber first Cow«Jc7, ROBERT H,i\IcCoRMic . until the clQse„qf the legislative session, to ''LiBBARY FACILITIES- aid legfelators, committees of'the Legisla ture, staite departments, boards or officials Office'-'Facilities , • » . in drafting bills, resolutions, and amend- / The quarters of the legislative'reference, - ments thereto, lipb'n specific request. The section are in the State Education Build Commissioners advise^as to constitution- ing just ac.r-oss the street from the State :•. .;•> wm LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 257 Capitol. They are part of the.State Li- in the study,of comparative legislation. Wrary and in close proximity to all other^ The rriaterials now in the legislative ref state offices. Floor space is ample; equip erence section are approximately as fol ment, lighting, ventilation, heating and lows: 200,000 federal, state and city docu other-arrangements are very„ satisfactory as ments of which 80,000 are bound volumes .to quantity-and qtia-lity. Immediately ad and 120,000 unbound; 35,000 items of cur-. jacent to^ the legislative reference quarters rent pamphlets, rriimeographed, new'spaper is book space fir about 125,000 volumes. and other materials of which approximately .The quick files furnish abundant space for 10,000 are newspaper clippings." • pamphlet materials and have never been The federal documents are classified 6y overcrowded. They are weeded out care the Superintendent of Documents Office = fully every year. The overfl.ow of the classifiaition. The current material, 35,000 '{^^ documents collectron" is placed in the gen items, is cla3sified by the.Dewey Decimal eral li^'ary stacks,in which there riowjs— classification. . • and for many years will be—abundant Other Library Collcctlojis Available . . space. e The entire collection.of tj;ie"New York Library Material State Library which totals at present about The Legislative Reference Section con 700,000 volumes, is available for the work tains a special collection on subjects of leg o f ^ the Legislative, Reference Section. The islation, ar/d on social, economic and gov- , Library has acquired extensive collections ernmental questions, and is organized to be on social, economic and political science, in of particular assistance 'to legislators, state dustrial history-j arid statistics. Those polit-. s .departments and institutions, and students: ical and economic questions which are sub • of public questions. The collection-is prin- jects of legislation, and of state control are . cipally made up of special bibliographies, adequately covered. jVIaterials on su^h selected niatter clipped from all classes of. topics as elcttions, suffrage, la-bor, taxation, periodicals arid newspapers and pamphlet banking and financej municipalgovernment, .. . materialof both official and private origin. conservation-; public utilities, insurance, • , It also includes legislative bills and simi-. charities, etc., are compiled. Particularjy lar ephemeral but extremely useful' and. effective is the arrangement which brings' "^ valuable publications,' as well as origpnal the Law Library, with close to' 100,000 vol compilations and digests on numerous sub umes, adjacent to the Legislative Reference jects of comparative legislation. The col Section. The same stack, witli a capacity lection is well classified, and'it is kept in (tf close to 200,000 volumes is used jointly a vertical filing system in the wiestern end of by both sections. the legislative library. Practically com , The law library has practically complete- plete sets of New York legislative journals, collections of all A^nerican, English, Irish, . dbcUments, and bills are shelved in the, same f Scotch and Canadian court reports, togetl)er part of this, rophi., • ^ . ', with the leading digests, tables of cases, " The section also cont-ains the Library's citation books and otTier legal bibliographic . collections of American legislative journals, apparatus necessary to the convenient and ^ and documents, national, state and local^^ exhaustive study of this material. It also The eastern end of the legislative library ; has an unusually extensive collection of . and the adjacent stacks are mainly devoted, Arherican .statute law, including the laws ..to this class of material. . This collectiQU of the colonial perioel. IMuch of this.ma ; • is rich in the official publications of the terial is important not, only as legal ma- - v.,,United States'Government. Similar sets. teHal but also as exceedingly rare early ' • for evetry'state in the Union, the documents ^mericana, some volumes of which fornr im of every American city of jnorc than 25,000 portant examples (if the history of printing, population, and of all counties, cities, and in this country. The statute law o.f the ^ , incorporated villages in New . York. State' Dominion, of Canada, the several Canadian afee also'collected. Selections from the pffi- provinces, England, Ireland and Scotlandis . cial: publications 61 foreign countries are „ represented by excellent working collec made with a view to their. .importance tions. • - K X • . • * 258 THE BOOK OF. THE STATES The Library has a'Wmplete set of the Legislative Bill Drafting Commission records and briefs in the^ Supreme Court of the thttted States since 1874. There are The following are.the 1933-34 expendi-' also complete sets of the records in the New tures of ^e Legislative Bill Drafting Com York Court of Appeals, the four Appellate mission classified as to personal service a:nd Divisions of the New York Supreme Court, maintenance.and oJDeration. and in miny of the cases reported in the .Commissioner ., $7;50O.OO .' New York jVIiscellaneous Reports, since Commissioner ...... • • 6,O0Q.OO 1911. Extensive though incomplete collec Deputy commissioner ...... '.;. 5,000.00 . tions of the records and briefs of cases in Counsel ...... 5,000.00^ ,; the Court bf^lAppeals and Appellate Di Assistant counsel, 2 at ?2,750.'. 5,500.00 vision prior to that time a;re also available." Secretary ...... '.."...... 2,400.00 : There i^'i,an extensive collection of iCmeri- Assistant bill drafter, 2 at $2,QUO. 4,000.00 can legal . textbooks, - cyclopedisfs, andi Chief examiner ...... 2,400.00- • dictionaries. So far as possible all legal Exariiiner, 3 at.$2,4£IO,../..,:...- 7,200.00 periodicals in the English langu^e, with Legal assistant ...... -..". 2,000.00 a selection from those in other.languages, Legal assistant ...... :.. .1,800.00 have been acquired. -The*'Library has a "General clerk, 2 at;$l,800...... 3,600.00 very extensive collection "of the reports of . Cornparer .....;...... -.... -1,600.00 .'." Kar associations and legal societies.- Comparer, 2 at $1,400...... = '2,800.00 . Much sijcc^ss has*been achieved in secur Stenographer ."...... ^1,800.00 ing a notable collection of the journals, Stenographer .. :...... '....'.,.. 1,600.00 debates arid documents of American con- Stenographer, 2 at $1,500.... /. 3,000.00 • stitutional conventions. Considerable progr Stenographer, 2 at $1,200,...... 2,400.00 .ress has also been made in collections of Temporary service ... .•...... 675.00 legal history and biography, literature of For editing and inde.xing. session the law,' international law, constitutional , laws, to be paid on the approval - , law, arid trials. - of the presi.dent-rfro-tem,,of tfie ' 'i , / , ' •. . .-FINANCES- •....,• senate and the Ipeaker of the'^ Legislative Reference Section of the " -assembly ...... :;..... : 6,000.00 State Library Total of schedule...... $72)275.00 It is not •p9ssible to segregate annual Less savings and\ salary reduc-^'' '[- . or biennial expenditures' fo^ the Legislative • tions;....;...... :...... ^2,875.00 /^Reference Section'of the. Ne\v York State Library. The items of-salary, maintenaTice Amount- appropriated .$69,400.00 and operation, supplies, and other designa •*» tions used in the analysis of the appropria- • tions are included in the appropriations ^ Maintenance and Operation :' ' •fpr the State Department of Education. However the anriu'dl expenditures of the Forthe e.xperises pf-^maintenance .. Legislative Referente Section haye been ., and' operation other- than per- estimated at ?14,000.00. . ' spnal service . /...... _^,$2,200.00 STATE JQENnRXEMARmiNA- HISTORY V a legislative -reference service- under._ the Bills providing = ll)r<.;the office of Legis North Carolina Historical, Commission. lative Reference Librarian were defeated The act was amended April 1\, 1933, torn jike,' in^ the^^rth Carolina General Assembly the Legislative .Library a division of the in 1911 and 1913 prior to the approval of Department of the' Attorney-General.. an act on March 9, 1915. 'Hiis act created The Legislative Reference Library is • /- •• * • rr,. / • r •>' ••&• -3-.,- /..,- - • • ,-'• .f-^ Iv- .V LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICER 259 r- very^tive and is responsible for the pub publications include .a booklet containing lication of i^numerous worth-while studies. o^cial votes for all officer^ hy counties and •'Although the act establishing ,the service a list of the members of the General As does not require that a bill drafting serv sembly, a Directory of State and County ice be maintained, the staff is actively en Officials, a bulletin containing amendments gaged in rendering this service during leg to the Consolidated Statutes, and a Court islative sessions. Calendar. Other material is compiled for municipalitiek^and for persons throughout ' • ' ' •' • . •'' ..•••' LAWS AND AMENDMENTS the state.; ^vAl^r each November election '. . • •••••,' •••• • • ' '•••-• • • • . a list of the newly-elected members of the '*. The act authorizes and requires the North General Assembly is printed./The-North ^ Carolina Historical Commission "to ap- Carolina Manual is compiled and published . point, a properly qualified person to be biennially and a report of the l^ibrary's known as a Legislativ"e Reference 'Libra activities is made annually. The Library rian, whose duty it shall be to collect, tajau- is also active as a bill drafting agency. late, annotate and digest information for Over six hundred bills are drafted for the the use of the members and comrhittees of legislators and other officials each year. the General Assembly and other officials of the state, and of the various counties , and cities therein, upon all questions of PERSONNEL state, ( county'. and municipal lejgislation.•' Librarian, Legislative- Reference Librafy, .^v North Carolina, AcJs^lQl5, Chapter 202, HENRY M. LONDON X . page 277. / ":^-/^'- E!^uejfti.Qn:i.^^.B., University of North iThe Legislatiye Reference Library was Carolina,'1899." Studied Law, George plaged unfler the Department of^jthe At Washington University, 1900-02. Uni torney-General by a North • Carolina Act versity of North Carolina: Law School, ^of 1933,;.. , j-y' ; >:; * :1903. / . • ^ ••..v.-; ORGANIZATION, ^ ^-^ VaThe Legislative Reference Librarian ai^d . • tlie-Jstaff of the Legislative Reference Li- brar|r, are appointed by the . Attorney- HENRY M. • Geiiteral of the State of North Carolina for LONDON .an niudefinite period. A staff of two de • J" votes'\fii.ll time to legislative reference asrv- Librarian, ice anii.a secretary is employed .during leg- islatiy;e;i;sessions. „: Legislative • ••••,-^vU'{' • • ••••••.••.•. ' Reference •.^- LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED Library TheVl^brth Carolina Legislative Refer ence library undertakes a complete legis lative reference service including analytical compari'^oifs-of the legisM^ on various ; f^foblern^^^^ A very good^liforary is maintained, containing •Offices: Mayor, Pittsboro, North Caro the laws'!of other states and nations, and as lina, 1903-05. Member, North Carolina t - much other legislative material as ig prac House ^.of Representatives, 1907-08. •\ tically available./'All bills obtained are ,Member, North Caijolina Senate, 1911- classified by-subject and filed for ready ref 13. Presidential Elector,; 1913. In ac erence.. A^y^^mplete inquiry service is tive law ^ practice, Pittsboro, 1903-13. rnaintaihedaii^d, in formation not on hand Chief Deputy Collector, Department of is procured aSVguickly as possible.. The Internal Revenue, United States Treas Legislative Library has been very; active ury, 1913-19. Librarian, North Caro , • • in compiling ,an.d publishing material valu- lina Legislative Reference Library since . able to all of the state officials. These 1919. . 260 THE BOOK OF THE STATES 6^ Member: North Carolina State Bar As-* ence Library since the State Library is on ,''^"•^odiation (Sec. and Treas. since",1921). the first floor "and the Law. Library is on Secretary, Bpardof Trustees, University the fourth floor of the same building. ^ of North Carolina since 1921. Member, /Board of IVLinagers, America;n Legisla Library MateriuU I ;; .« tors' Association,' 1929-31. .American , . The Legislative Reference Library con • Bar Association. tains, approximately 12,000 pieces of ma- . Clubs and Organizations: Sons di the h terial catalogued according to the Dewey . American Revolution. Raleigh Rotary Decimal Classification System. The ma Club, Raleigh Chamber of Commerce; terial is not separated into bound volumes, Phi Delta Phi (legal fraternity), Sigma pamphlets, or'periodicals, so there is no Alpha Epsilon (social fraternity).. way of knowing the count for these indi- , r Married: Mary Elliot. 'vidual classes. Care is. taken to avoid 7?a/Vc/7fc; 615 Hillsboro Street, Raleigh. duplicating material regularly, kept in the Office: Supreme Court Building; Raleigh; State and Law Libraries. Research Associate, MRS. W. J.PEELE Other Library Collcctiofis Available .: ' / LIBRARY FACILITIES As above stated, 4he North Carolina (f /Office Facilities 'State Library is on the first floor and the The'North Carolina Legislative Refer- State Law Library is on the fourth floor JA^^ . ence Library is located on the second floor of the Supreme Court Building; This ar^^, of the Supreliie Court Building, which is rangement renders their collections immedi- adjacent to the State Capitol. The ^.ately available to the Legislative Reference . quarters allocated to the Library are in Library. • - adequate, consisting of only two office-size - rooms. AVhile the location in the Supreme FINANCES • , , -•..:•;.. Court Building is inconvenient: to the legis The total expenditijtres of: the North lators who wish to make use of the service, Carolina Legislative Reference Library for ' .it is convenient for the Legislative B^fer- the last two biennia are as follows: T • «pXPENE»ITURE 1931-33 1933-35 • Salary of Librarian $5,960.00 $5,000.00 Other Salaries and Wages 2,250.00 1,740.00 Postage • ." 47.00 • 50.00 Telephone and Telegraph ,r- 10.00 Stationery and Forms „ • . 1.7.00 • :• 15:00 Publications 884.00 ,.560.00 Subscriptions and Dues 18.00 Total • $9,176.00 $7,375.00 ST^TE OF NORTH DAKOTA' / HISTORY f Reference Bureau were transferred to the Both legislative reference: and bill draft Law Librarian since the position of the Li ing, services were rendered by the Legisla brary Commission as an independent or tive Reference Bureau of North Dakota. ganization was terminated in 1917. The This bureau was one of the divisions of the work eventually came under the Board of Public Library Commission created by an Administration. Since'the State Law Li act approved March 2, 1907 and amended brarian Was also ex officio Supreme Court on March 3, 1909. Among the purposes of "Reporter: the added work was too much. this Comhtission was the establishmeTit of The service quickly di'minished and finally a Legislative Bureau. ' terminated during a general state reorgani In 19-19 the duties "of the Legislative zation. ' •" r^- .«^ i? LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SER VICES: 261. STATE OF OHIO HISTORY General Code, Sec. 5175-29e (104 Ohio \-N The Legislative Reference Department Laws, page 120). The above was repealed of Ohio was organized in 1910 as a,part by 11.3 .phio LaAvSj page 412. of the State Library in accordance with' The Director of the Legislatit'e Refer an act approved May 1.3,1910. ence Department became Chief of the Leg^ Under the provisions of this act, the islative Division and appointed by the State Board of Library Commissioners was to ap Librarian under the Ohio Administrative; point an^assistant to be known as the-Leg Code of 1921. General Code, Sec. 154-5/1;- islative Reference Librarian. • In 1913 an .(109OhioLaws; p. 123). :•••] /. act,was passed, amenc^g the.original act The Legislative, Reference Division be and setting up the Legislative-Reference* came a separate department under the Leg Bureau as a department separate from the . islative Reference Board by 4he Ohio .Acts .State Library though still under the di-. of 1933. General Code, Sec. 798-1: (115 • rection and supervision of the State-Board • pt. It, Ohio Laws). of Library Commissioners. An.act of 1914 provided that ten qualified ORGANIZATION \ voters might, by written communication, • The Chief of the Ohio Legislative Refer-" submit any proposal, law or amendment to ence Bllreau is appointed for, an indefinite the Legislative Reference Department for term by the' Ohio Legislative Reference^ examination. If that Department found Board w:hich is composed oif the Gov it constitutional it should so certify and the ernor, the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk certification should be printed under the of the House of Representatives. The , proposition on the ballot:- This flaw was Board likewise appoints; the secretary of repealed, as of January 1, 1930. ' the bureau; The other members of the staff Froin,1915 to 1921 the State Librarian . of the Legislative Reference Bureau are acted as Director of the Legislativje; Ref appointed for indefinite'terms by the Chief • erence Department. In 1921, under the with the approval of the Legislative Refer administrative code, the position of Di- , ence- Board. A staff of two devotes full rector was aboHshed, the head of the de- 7 time to legislative reference service. Grad-. partment being designated as Chief of the',. uate students in law from Ohio State .Uni Legislative Reference Division and ap versity are employed during legislative; pointed by the State Librarian., This or sessions. ; ;•• • ganization remained until 1933 when the Ohio Legislative Reference Bureau again . LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED became a separate department. At present The chief Junction of the Ohio Legisla-: the Chief of the Legislative Reference Bu tive' Reference Bureau is the drafting of- reau comes under the Legislative Ref bills for members of the Ohio General As erence Board, composed of the Governor, sembly and other state officials. Between Clerk of the Senate, and Clerk of the House 75 and'80 per. cent of. all bills introduced of Representatives. into the General .'Assembly are drafted-by- the Bureau. Committee reports and briefs \ LAWS AND AMENDMENTS ;• on the constitutionality of proposed legis \ 'To provide for a legislative reference lation are also prepared. Material relative and information department in connection to pending legislation is'accumulated. Re- with the Ohio State Librairy." 101 Ohio searchwork is conducted on subjects of Laws, p, '22\. • interest to the General Assembly. The Ohio The Bureau became a separate depart Bureau prepares, several rriajor compila ment under the State Board of Library tions and digests of laws every year. .It also Commissioners. 103 Ohio Laws, p. 8. ^; prepares the Ohio pages for the Statesman's Ten quahfted voters may send a proposi Yearbook and /Moody's Investors Servic^. tion to the Legislative Reference Depart Many minor studies are made and a sub ment for certification according to Ohio. stantial ini^uiry service is.rendered. A ref- • 0»< ..f- •.\- 262 THE BOOK OF THE STATES /. f^' erence file of bills is kept and an exchange Laws, 1928 and 1934;.Ohio Constitution, of,bills is maintained with several other 1930. . states. Approximately 750 bills are added Rif^ence: 958 South Ohio Avenue.. . to the Ohio files each year frorn,California, V. Connecticut, Iowa, New j^rk, Pennsylvania :" LIBRARY FACILITIES and Wisconsin. A subjew index of all bills . Office Facilities is kept and record made of their legislative . : At the present time the Ohio Legislative travel. During the sessions of the 1933 Reference Bureau occupies a room on the-, Ohio General Assembly .the Bureau drafted first floor of the Capitol Building. Now that, , 1042 of the 1125 bills introduced-and ^ the Bureau has been set up as a separate,( served, in some rcapacity, 150 of the 167 department, quarters on.. the second floor members. . ' of the Capitol Building which are more" PERSONNEL accessible to the Senate and House cham Chief of 'Legislative Reference Bureau,.. bers will be taken over. The new location ARTHUR A. SCHWARTZ has not been definitely selected as'yet. Education: A.B,; Ohio State University, Library Material. . 1914. A.M., Ohio- State .University, The Legislative Reference Bureau has : :m5. approximately'40,000 books and pamphlets catalogued by theLibrary of Congress clas sification system. In . addition there are numerous sets of clippings and mjich type"- written material classified by nearly 300 ARTHUR A. different subjects and filed in several filing cases. It is impossible to estimate the' SCHWARTZ aqjount of this fnatefial. Chief of the Other Available Library Collections .Legislative There is available to the Legislative Ref erence Bureau the Ohio ^preme Court Li Referet}ce brary, located in the State House Annex... Bureau The State Library occupies a pairt of the; New State Office Building about a block from the Capitol Building. Both of these libraries are well equipped with material and with reference facilities. Offices: Research assistant, .Legislative- , FINANCES ' Reference . Division of -State Library, It is impossible to tell just what the ex 1916-27. - Chief, Legislative Reference penditures of the Bureau w^re during the Division of State Library, 1927-33. time it was a division of the State Library, Chief, Ohio Legislative Reference Bureau since expenditures were not segregated by . since 1933..' :, ,^ divisions or services. Information on ex Mcinber: Phi Beta Kappa. penditures since establishment as a separate 'Compiler and Annotator: Ohio School department are also not available. -r • STATE OF OKLAHOMA - No LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU , '::^ "V •'iSUS:^ LEGI'SLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 263 STATE OF OREGON • , HISTORY ^ . by the heads of five departnients of the No specific provision iias ever been made University of Oregon,"namely, political by the Oregon Le'gislative Assembly for the science^ law, economics, history, and busi- establishment: of a- legislative reference . i'ness, - administration^ - The men^bers, serve bureau biit the State Librarian is required without compensation and no funds are ap y by law to render such services. The Oregon propriated for the Bureau. The Governor State Library was quick to see. the need officiallyT-appoinjts the members of the . of a, legislative .^.reference bureau and acted Bureau for a two year term. The present in that capacity without authorization from term ends June 1, 1935, The Bureau may 1905 to 1913. An act approved February draw upon other members of the faculty 25, 1913, provided that among his other arid upon students.fot^assistance. duties the state librarian should render leg-; islative reference, service. No special 'ap-^s^ LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED ' \i propriation has /ever been made to carry ' . Oregon State Library ' • on this work. . -The State Library provides legislative LAW AND A-MENUMENTS . ' eference material to. members of the Leg "Th6 state librarian .. . shall also collect islative Assembly and other state officials. and index those public documents which It is not working (jnj^ny large compilations i shall be of service to state bdards, officials, or research problems but keeps close check' and commissioners, and for reference work of d-ige.sts made elsewhere that might be of . for ^he members of the Legislative As- service. • All comparative legislative ma .', sembly for investigation of public ques terial found in the Library has been care tions.'.'- Oregon, General, Laws, 1913, fully indexed. There is also an index to all bills introduced into the .Legislative As Chapter 14,9, page" 2.64. • , ', '" sembly, from 1907 to 19J 7.. Since 1917 the . ORGANIZATION bills have been adequately indexed in the"' Oregon State Library Journals of House and Senate. An official ; The State Librarian is appointed. for an file of bills of the House from 1885 to date and of "the Senate from 1887 to date has indefinite term by the Board of Trustees- of . been preserved. The Library maintains . thie State Library which: is composed of the three complete files of every.Oregon docu Governory the State Superintendent of ment and exchanges documents with other Schools, the Ghancellor of the Oregon states when possible. • The staff assembles State System' of- Higher Education, the Li from documents, pamphlets, and books, brarian of the Portland Library^ and three material on all public questions'of interest nriembers appointed by the Governor; The to the legislators. Immediately after the fr-. . library staff is appointed by the State Li November election-, a persojial letter is sent brarian >for indefini'te terms with the ap-. to each senator and representative-telling proval of.the Board. The librarian and one him of the facilities available, and offering member of the staff devote such time as to do any; necessary research off problems, is needed to the legislative reference work^^ of particular interest to him. All suchwork and call freely upon other, staff members done for individuals is of course held in for additional services. No^ temporary.staff strict confidence. The Library .publishes members are empldyed during legislative a biennial report on all its. activities and oc sessions. The State Library is not depart- casional bibliographies \on timely subjects rnentalized but very elastic as to organiza such as sales tax, and city planning. tion, personnel, material, and finances. Legislativ^Service and Reference Legislative Service and Reference. Bureau of the State of Oregon Bureau The Legislative Service anS'^Reference ' This Bureau, upon, request of legislators Bureau .is ^; semi-official bureau, directed ; or other state officials, makes investiga- ' "'"'-'v.^- "''', 264 THE BQOK OF TtiE/STA TES '^ tions and prepares reports for.their use. It •; ;I,,lbrary Department,/Wisconsin Free Li- also drafts bills, upon occasion. y^ brary Commission, .Madison, 1920-30. // Librarian, Oregon . State Library since The Office oj the Attorney-General//: '••' 1930. ,V .-• .,; • . • ;:- ; . The Attorney-General and. his staff draft \ Author: ] County Library Service 1925. bills, resolutions and amendments thereto, 'Contributor to professional publications.; upon the request of the legislators ^.anji of Member:. American Library Associa ficers and committees, of the •-sevferal tion, Pacific Northwestern. Library As- houses. The Attorney^General- also ad • sociation, American Association of: Uni vises legislators and. governrnent' officers versity Women. Phi Beta Kappa. . upon questions of- law aod especially upon • Clubs and Organizations: . Salem Wom- the validity of proposed legislation with" eri^s Club./ " .. • : respect to its conformance,'tq4he state and Residence: 173 'South Cottage Street, Federal constitutions. , Salem. •.•.•.' • Office: State Library, Salem. • (? • . The State Supreme Court Library Research Associate—rState Library, .'MIR- The State Law Librarian renders some PAH BLAIR ' / research' and library service on legal mat-, .ters to.legislators and other public officials. ..Lcgislativ%'-Service and Reference This"consists largely of looking up and com ' Bureau oj the. State oj Oregon paring the laws of several states upon cer University of Oregon tain subjects. PbliticarScience Department, Pr^'f. J. D. ,-" .PERSONNEL Barnett, , . • /^ State Librarian, HARRIET C. LONG Law Department, Prof.'R. C. Clark*. • Education: A.B.y University .of Ne-. Economics Department, Prof. Wayne L. biraska, 1908. B.L.S., New York Stated Morse. \ •'.• • ./•Library;School, Albany, 1910. M.L.S.,' History Department, Prof. H. V. Hoyt. ' New York State Library. School, 1925. \ Departmeflt of Business Administration, Prof. James H. Gilbert. Attorney-General, L H. VAN WINKLE .State Law Librarian, E. N; GILLINGHAM LIBRARY FACILITIES • . . Office Facilities' „ •'. The State Library, is inadequately housed HARRIET C: LONG in the Supreme Court Building.% It qqcu- . pies space in various parts of four floors and . State Librarian is crowded into every available'corner. Seg regation of legislative reference material is practically impossible because/of these]' condition's. Inadequate ventilation, light, and sj^ac^ are handicaps to efficient clerical; work. A new $350,000 State Library build-"/ ihg very close to the State House has been .planned as a P.. W. A. project and is await- ;.ir[g action. In the newTDuilding there is to; Offices: Assistant in Free Public Library, be a separate room for legislative service.. Santa Barbara, Cal., 1910-13.. • Libra The present housing is very convenientto rian, Kern County Library, Cal., 1913- the .House and Senate chambers, and^to ;' 15. Librarian, Brumback Library, V^ the Supreme Court Library. Wert County, OJuo, 1916-18. War work with American Library Association on Library Material ' Me.xicari Border in 1918 and in Germany The State Library has a collection of over and France in 1919. Chief, Traveling 342,000 books and pamphlets,, with un- e^ .V »^' LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 265 counted thousands of periodicals and clip Other Library Collections Available pings. The, only part'of the collection , •.. • • '•'" •. • . .. /.• - .;.••/-,•. •••.•. ^ • which is specially designated as legislative The materials in the State Supreme,Court ^^ reference is a file of more than 1,800 pieces Library are .iriimediately available "to the of comparative legislation. ^ The cr,bwded State Library. The University :'of Oregon condition of the library prohibits further Library and that of the Oregon State .Ag segregation. Most of the material is on ricultural College are farther removed, but the general shelves and is catalogued ac both arelvery willing to lend tlieir materials. cording to the Dewey Decimal System, The The resources of the Portland Libra:ry are majority of, the legislative inquiries are also available. .<•' ., , ' • handled by one person, tpained in legislative' The Legislative Service and Reference and governmental research and familiar Bureau of the State of'Oregon is located with the location of = pertirteht material. at, and uses the facilities of, the University /• / During legislative sessions needed materials of Oregon at Eugene. . , are withdrawn froni:circulatipn and re served for the use of the. legislators. Much • FINANCES' .•,.. , ' valuable rriaterial-has beeii collected by the The total-le.xpenditure of. the Oregon Library during its quarter century of legis State Library'for the biennium 1929-30 was v lative reference service and the collection $84,560; for 1931-32, $93,475;' and.for of such material is undoubtedly the best in 1933-3.4, approximately- $87,000. . It is irh- . / - ••; the Northwest. A slight additional appro- . possible to tell howinuch of this went into priation for more skilled service and for legislative reference service. The budget •. more space would make.it of much greater ' is kept flexible so that the money may be value to the Legislative .Assembly. , used where needed. : ••i COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA i HISTORY • LAWS AND AMENDMENTS .• The-Legislative Reference Bureau of Bureau Established, Penn., Public Laws, Pennsylvania was organized as a division of 1909 p.-208.;/ / ;b ,: r ••. :* the State .Library by: an act approved Duties Enlarged, Penn., Public Laws, 1911 April 27, 1909.' The duties of the Bureau •p/'76.:- . / '. . . were expanded in. 1911 and 1915. The act Statutory Revision Ordered, Penn., Public- approved by the General Assembly in 1913'. Laws, 1913 p. :250.> • "^ ; directed the Bureau to examine and com Statutory Revision .Continued,:Tenn., Pub pile the statute law of Pennsylvania and • lic Laws, 1915 p. 194. subsequent j^'-^s of 1915 andT9T7'^liuIhoi^~ --Dutiies-Enlarged;_Eenn.,_Public Laws, 1915 ized it to dohtinue this work. The Legis- • ..'p..474..., . . •' ..'V. lative R^rfence Bureau was reorganized as Statutory Revision Continued, Penn., Pub a legislative agency by an act approved iMay lic Laws, 1917 p. 8-7. : ; • . 7, 1923. The director of the Bureau, in Bureaus Reorganized, Penn., Public Laws, stead of b,eing appointed by the. Governor, 1923 p. 158. . I- • is now elected by the Senate and ijouse • Salary Amendment, Penn'., Public Lalws, of Representatives, in joint session. One 1927 p. 876. -. , •; .; of the leading legislative agencies in the Salary Amendment, Penii., Public. Laws,.. United States at the present time, the Penn^' .1929 p.' 1803. . sylvania.Legislative Reference Bureau pub- Salary Amendment, Penn., Public La:ws, • lishes" many-of its digests and compilations - 1931: p. 95. ' ':. • .and operates with.the whole-hearted sup ORGANIZATION port, and coiifidenc^ of the General Assem The Director of the.Pennsylvania Leg bly and the Administration,, islative Reference .Bureau is appointed by a :./. " -s^ THEJBOO^ OF THE STATES .(F' \ f>^ -tar; ^ ItfcSj^i^ of the Senate and Hous^. of DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE^ year term,^ be- (T^ Re^preseif^ives for a two- ginning the third Tuesday in January in The. Attorney-General of Pennsylvania odd nurribereci years.. The Bureau staff is assists in bill drafting and statutory revi appointed by the.Directoi . A staff of sion upon request, of the members of the twelve devotes full time to legislative ref- General Assembly,', Governor, or depart erence service and bill dr^l ting arid seven ment heads. ' temporary staff members arc eipiployed dur- UEPARTIMENT OF REVENUE ing regular legislative sessions The Executive Assistant to the Secre LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED tary _of the Bureau of Administration and Accounts assists in,the drafting of revenue •: - Legislative Rejereric'/Bureau measures. The Executive Assistant to the The Pennsylvania Bureau furnishes ref- Commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Ve .erence service to the members of tjie Gen- hicles renders a similar service in the draft ' eral Assembly, the Governors, the heads of ing of motor vehicle legisHHon. • the several departments and to any citizens of the Commonwealth who desire to lise it. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS • The Bureau prepares indexes of Penn The attorney of the Burea;u of General sylvania laws, digests the laws of other Engineering Headquarters, Department of states, and keeps a complete collection of Highways, is of great assistance in the Pennsylvania bills filed by I bill number. drafting of highway legislation. f A; file of reports of departments^ boards ^'and commissions and of other! public docu y ; PERSONNEI; ments of the Commonwealth Is. also ;main- •lained, The Bureau furnishes a complete Director, Legislative Refvrcnce Bureau, JoH^ H; FE^TIG . inquiry service. It has by ready cooperation Edutation: High school and one year of built up good will with th0 burVus of other post-graduate work for teaching profes'-^ states-, thus'making it possiale to secure' sion. information in a short time.; ~p\ periodical indexed history of legislation is kept both iDy bill -number and bv legislative sponsors, and the travel of all bills-intro duced is recorded. From ti ne to time topical codifications of the exis;ing general JOHN H. FERTIG statutes, arranged ,by chapter and section, are presented to the Generalf Assembly for Director, adoption or rejection. Lists of obsolete laws to be repealed are added tl: eretp. The Legislative Bureau upon request advises th(; legislators. Reference : Governor, and heads of departments on Bureau '_• bills and resolutions and drafts't he bills into the proper form. Three, thousand and fif- ; teen bills were drafted during the session ^f jthe 1933 General Assembly. The Director, acts as ex-officio advisor to thej General As sembly in legal matters and on parliamen- • tary law. The Bureau prepares and pub Offices: Teacher in public schools, 1901- lishes bulletins,. pamphlets, *and circulars 04. Admitted to bar by Pennsyl containing infp^ation collected by the vania Supreme Court, 1906. Active Law Bureau. Copies of some of flhese pulDlica-. 'practice, 1906-12. Assistant CJefk, Or tions are distributed upon request to any phans' .Court,. Schuylkill CoUnty, 1911, citizen desiring them. Others are sold at 1912. Bill drafter,-Pennsylvania Legis the cost of publication by t^e Division of lative Reference Bureau, 1912-17. As Documents. sistant Director, Pennsylvania Legisla- •/f- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 267 tive\. Reference Bureau, 1917-31. heating and ventilation are very poor. The Director since 1931. quarters are not arranged conveniently. Memper: American Law Institute They occupy a part of the Museum build (Charter Member), American Bar As ing which is next door to the Capitol Build- . sociation, Pennsylvania Bar Association. ing and is corffiected to it by a short under State ^Epiployes'Retirement Board. • ground passage. Clubs\ and .^Organizations: Director, Izaak ]lValtOTi League. Director, Zoolog : y Library Matericd f~^ ical S6ciety;"of Harrisburg; Harrisburg Club, 'i The Legislative Reference Library has " Married: E. Edith Wunder. / approximately 3,050 volumes, of which: Residence: .108 North Second Street, 1,500 volumes are devoted to law.rThis is Harrisburg; ,/ considered a very adequate working: library. 6§ich: State Museum Building, Harris- The files incfude 5,450 pamphlets, over • burg. , . / • 1,500'clippings and about 6,000 separate • Assistant Director,'R.OB'E^T^.'FR'E.Y pieces of typewritten material.' The ma Bill Drafter and Compiler, S. EDWARD HAN- terial'is catalogued by a special classifica •NESTAD • tion system developed in the Bureau. Orig er,'BuRT R. GLID- inally 6,000 numbers were assigned to the DEN- .;-. • • system.' Where expansion becomes neces Bill Drafter and Compiler, HERBERT S. sary and unused numbers are not available, a decimal point is used. e^~- SCHAFFNER f Research Associate,VAVLW. ORTH ;. Reference Librarian, IRMA A. WATTS Other Library Collections Avaiiable, 5ecrc/flr>', ANNA M, AIKEN ./'•'. The Pennsylvania Bureau makes ,,fr.e-. quent use of the State General Library and' :> LIBRARY FACILITIES V the State Law Library, especially of the ,[''^^Office Facilities public documents section of the latter. The office of the Pennsylvania Legisla These libraries are housed in the Education tive Reference Bureau covers approxi Building, which, is about two city blocks mately 2,185 square feet of floor space and from the Bureau offices. • is equipped with the usual files, desksf chairs, "tables and office machinery. The FINANCES bill filing room is equipped with metal fil^ • The actual expenditures of the Pennsyl ing cases and occupies 1,180 square feet of vania Legislative Reference Bureau for the flobr space. Th^ space is adequate for of biennium 1931-33; for the fiscal year 1933- fice purposes but not for library purposes 34; estimated for the fiscal year 1934-35;.. since there is insufficient room for shelves. and the. estimated total for .the. biennium The lighting fatilrties are excellent but the 1933-35 areas follows: ' Purpose : '• Total - Total Est. Total Est. Total ' >• . .1931-33 1933-34 . :m4-35 ; 1933-35 V, Salary of Director ': $15,000.00 $ 6,000!00 $ 6,000.00 $12,000.g0 Other Salaries ; r'--68,8 56:50- -287528.00" ; -•28331.00 •57,059.00* Temporary Wages • 6,2-S2.70 3,50^.00 : 3,5b2:;bO Subscriptions, etc. 810.39 261.45 300.00 ; 561.45 • Traveling Expenses - 410.18. .** **'. . ,;•.•'.• Express, Freight, etc. .:, • 1.54'; • 2J3 ; : 5.00 7.'73 • Postage •';, 1,050.00 436.00 . 448.00 884.00 Telegrams. .20.09 , 5.89 12.00 V 47.89 Dues to .Associations 50.00 . 30.00 ; 35.00 65.00 BoSks and Reports ; : 1,334,94 42.56 , .;•> iop.oo: ; 142.56 • . Total;; $93,786.34 $35,306.63 $38,933.00 $74,239.00*** 268 THE BOOK OF THE STATES * Marked difference in two biennia is due to. certain amounts from the Department of cut in appropriation. Property and Supplies for printing, bind •* No allocation .to this classification because ing, stationery, telephone, telegraph, re of cut in appropriation. pairs, equipment, bottled water, insurance .*** Deficiencv*. appropriation will be. rc'quested and other incidentials. This amounted'to from the General Assembly for e.vtra session help, ?3,845.99 for the biennium" 1931-33, and. appro.ximately !55;OC)0. ; '.. $1,220.96 for the first fiscal year of the '.* ., I ' • 1' • present biennium 1933-35. It is estimated In addition to the above amounts the that.the total for the 1933-35 biennium will, Legislative Reference Bureau was allocated be $2,3.15. STJTE OF RHODE ISIjAND AND f ' PRpVIDENCE PLANTATIONS- : ' HISTORY •. Secretary of State with the advice and con The Legislative Reference Bureau was sent of the Senate, for a three year.term— originally established as a division of the the .present one ending January 31, 1937. The director and staff of the Legislative ' Rhode Island State Library by an act ap • - - • I proved Api-il 2i, 1907, This act was .Reference Bureau.are appointed for indef amended April 30, 1908, The facilities of inite terms by the State Librarian with the . p*<.- the State Library are at the disposal of the approval of the Secretary.of St^te.; A staff, Bureau when the'General Assembly is-in of three devotes full time to legislative ref-. session. No provision was made; for the erence work. Temporary staff members are ' employment of draftsmen in the Reference employed during legislative sessions, and Bureau, but the State Librarian and assist .the services of the Library staff are drawn ants render in an unofficial way such assist upon as needed. ance as may be required in preparing bills /The State Law Revision Commissioner .7 for introduction. In 1925 the salary of is appointed by the Governor, with the ad each employee of the Legislative Reference vice and consent of the Senate. He is re Bureau was specified by law. quired to be a practising attorney and ex . The office of State Law Revision Com perienced, in. legislative procedure. missioner was created in 1926. The Com missioner codifies and revises existing, "^ LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDEREDI statutes, drafts bills, and resolutions, and Legislative Reference Bureau advises on bills before, the Governor signs The Rhode Island Legislative Reference them. • Bureau undertakes to furnish complete leg '•^7 L.AWs AND AMENDMENTS. islative refereiice'serv'ice for the legislators Bureau estabfished, Rhode Island, Acts, and other state officials—that is- to supply - 1907, Chapter 1471. , . information on the layfs of other states on Duties brpadened, Rhode Island, Acts, a given subject; on legislation engrted-at^" . 1908, Chapter' 1554. : __^ any tihie.iri Rhode-Islandf references to .Salaries specified, ^hg(l£_Jslar\df-""A.cr§7 "any^BS5kfTiealrn^^=Tvith legislative ques • 1925, Chapter."3X2." ., tions: and to comments on legislation in Revision Comriiissioner, Rhode. Island, current peric^icals. The pendihg bills of Acts, 1:926, Chapter 790; . •; '^lassachusetts, Connecticut, Xew York and/ Salary revisions,.Rhode Island, Acts, 1930, other states'are on file in the library. The . Chapter 160Q.- ' •i^ V pending bills of Rhode Island have a special ; filing room and duplicates are supplied \ ' ORGANIZATION I upon application. For this purpose a The State Librarian, also, ex officio State dictionary card catalogue is kept as well as Record Cprnmissioner, is appointied by the a file of serial cards upon which is enteredy-^r -.i: .'I.; LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 269 the travel of the bills. Entry is also maide sity, 1922-30, Associate in'Bibliography, under the name of the introducer. The 'Brown University, 1931^date, Chair Bureau makes a sessional index of all legis man, Public Do'cument Clearing Hciuse- lation by bill number and keeps up to date a Secretary, American Library Institute, card list'of all Rhode Island Ifegislatprs sinc% Editor: Special Libraries, 1924-31. .1850, A cooperative. arrangement "was maintained between the Bureau and Brown ,,University from '1908-1929. by which stu-/ dents w.ere permitted to perform work in/ cooperative legislation under the direction of the Legislative Reference Bureau. Sorne of the miaterjal prepared by the students has HERBERT O. been utilized in ifielegislative reference bul- . B HIGH AM letins which the Bureau publishes. Other digests and important compilations and re- ' State pprt$ are, al^o published by th'& Rhode Is . Librarian land Bureau and listed with the PulDiiic Af fairs Information Service. While • the Bureau is not officially required to draft bills, for many years it has drafted a^arge •portion of the acts and resolutions presented <}' . to the General .Assembly. Seven hundred and twelve bills, were handled during the 1934 session of the General Assembly con Mcmbei.: American Library .Associa vening, in January. Since Rhode Island is tion, National Association -of' State Li so small in area, municipalities and towns braries, American .Association of Law Li- iare also assisted in their research work by braries, j Special Libraries'Association, the Bureau. .American .Academy of Political and So- . cial Science, .American Economic Assdr The State Law Revision Commissioner ciationjAmerican Historical Association, National Fire Protection Association, The Comrnissioner Avorks on a consolida New England Historical-Genealogical tion of all the statutes and publi.c.laws of Society,! and Brigham'Family Association. the state, beginning with the general laws Married: Widower. of 1923. He maintains the consolidations: ^Residence: 11 Nisbet Street, Providence. andl^evisions in up to date form. Upon . Office: ! State House, Providence. ;' written request' of the Governor, the ..pre- Director ^/ Legislative Rejerct^ce Bureau, '/siding officer ofs the Senate, the Speaker of, GRACE M' SHERWOOD r. the-House of Representatives, or the chair-, Education:'. .A.B,, Women's College, man of any standing committee of either Brown University, 1906. house, the Commissioner will prepare, draft, . Offices: Student .Assistant, John Hay ' and redraft bills, acts, resolutions or amend- Library, Brown University, 1902-06. rhents. ,He is also called upon to serve on Assistaht, John Carter Brown Lijjrary, or to assist.many legislative commissions. Providence, 1904. Assistant, Rhode Island j School of Design, 1905, Assist • V.V . -. PERSONNEL- • .••:}••'•':•: ant j ' Legislative Reference Bureaif, State Librarian, }lERBE^TO.BRlGUAil 1907-09. Director, Legislative Refer Education: 'Student, Brown University, ence Bureau since 1909. * . Providence, Rhode Island, 1895-96 and Author: Numerous articles, stories, 1898-99.. : . _ . . plays,; poems and songs. Served with Offices: / Assistant Librarian, Brown Y.iM,G,A. in France^'writing and direct-' University, 1900-03. Librarian, JRhode • ing plays for soldier productions. Island State Librai-y since 1903, Record Member: .Amei;ican Library Association, , Gommissioner since 1910. Associate in . National-Association of State Libraries. . Gpjnparative Legislation, BroWnUniver- (Vice I Presi,dent 1931-32), American .. //•'\":,\. '• '••'.• '• -' ' ' .; ••.•.,' • .- /."• .••'-••'•:••••'•'\: '^ .•:•••.. '-"^,'- .•••':••-;. - •6 /••: ./• .^-U. •«--OK.„ -\ ?7Q THE BOOK OF THE ST A TES Museum of Natural History. Board of 80,000 pamphlets^ This includes the Rhode . Directors, 'Fedei-al Hill House. Island Collection, state documents and 'Clubs and Organizations: Providence journals, city documents^" United States Players Club. Providence Plantations Government Depository Set, United States Club; Brown Alumni Association. . Departi^iental Collection^ foreign docu- Residence: 123 Waterman Street,/ ,ments arid laws, classified pamphlet laws, Providence. legal reference^, .pamphlets, periodicals, Office: Stafte House, Providence, ; legal reports, bulletinsy-arid circulars in ad V State Law Revision Commissioner,. JAMES dition to the official archives an^'records G. CONNOLLY -^ ' maintained: by the State Record. Commis ••'•/• '" V sioners and the Secretary of State. . LIBRARY FACILITIES Office Facilities Other Library Collections Available The Rhode Island Legislative Reference The Jibraries of Brown University, Provi Biureau sh^ies the State Library quarters dence Public Library^ Rhode Island Histor which occupy the ceritral point on the ical Society: and other special collections second floor of the State House midway be in the city of Providence are available to ; tween the Senate arid the House chambers. the Legislative Reference Bureau, Jhe The equipment and' rriaterials of the close proximity to Boston gives opportunity Bureau and the Library are not kept for use of th6 facilities .of the ^Iassachu- separate. A private office: for the Librarian, setts State Library and other Boston li an office for the State Record Commissioner, braries... •• and numerous stack rooms throughout the building are maintained in addition to the '-'-^'f'''•'[-''•••: FINANCES. • ••.',• main Hbrary. , Legislative Rejerence Bi&eati : ^^, -—-:—^^,^} Library Materials J- The expenditures of the Rhode Island . The iBureau library isan integral part Legislativfe Reference Department' for the •of the State Library and draws its matierials four fiscal years' (ending June 30) 1931, : .• from the Library files. The Dewey classi 1932, 1933; and' 1934 together. with the fication system is used in general. The li recommended appropriation for 1935 are \ brary contajns over 65,000 books and as follows: tt^ 1930-31 1931-32 19.32-33 ; 1933-34 . v ^ 1934-35. • Personal Service §5>3()p:oo $5,300.00 :$5,430.00 r $5,341.67 55,300.00 •Office Expense 310.26 "^ / 230,00 173,69 •:' ; 282.91 / 330.00 Other M - Expenses. 67.10 150.00 .48.54 "50.00 '";,; 50.00 Total $5,677.36. $5,680.00 • $5,652.23 55,674.58 $5,680.00. ' The annual expenditures for the S.tate. Service, $7,500, Office Expense, 5200, and. Law I^visipn Commissioner cover Personal other expenses, $100. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY ordered its Attorney-General to aid in the It is interesting to note that South Caro preparation of legislative documehts and lina made an early official step in expert bill bills on the request of either house. At drafting; In 1868 the General Assembly the next session the Attorney-General was <{V. WJ!«. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SER VICES 271 .'.".authorized to require'the State Solicitors The Code Commissioner makes a con J • in the eight judicial districts to aid in this tinuous revision of the South Carolina { function. The.Attorney-General still drafts ,Cpdes/ He also inde.xes the,statutes after bilisiupon the request of members of the 'each session pf the General Assembly. I General Assembly. However, a law creat- ing^n official legislative reference bureau • PERSONNEL'•'' • ''.:^'.,'-•>'•• • . ' . in South Carolina has never been enacted. In 1914, when the present State Librarian State Librarian, Mn$, VIRGINLA G, MOODY took office, she saw the n^d for such 'a serv- y.- Education: Graduate, College for ' .- ''• ice and as a result, legislative research work Women, Coitimbia,Sduth CarpUha. has been lindertaken to a slight extent. No Offices: Librarian, South Carolina State ?. [-^ extra appropriation is given to the Library Library since 1914. ^ .[, " ' ; for this work and since the staff has been 'Office: State Capitol, Columbia. reduced to the librarian, legislative services Attorney-General, JOHN M. DANIEL are necessarily limited. • ^;rf?5' LIBRARY FACILITIES ; ;«; . LAWS AND'AMENDMENTS ' Office Facilities • • Bill drafting was first officially estab lished in South Carolina by the South Caro The South Carolina State Library is I07 lina. Statutes at Large, XXII, Number 249. cated in the Capitol Building midway be tween the llouse arid Seriate chambers, ^ ORGANIZATION The Library is nioi l?.rge but there is ade quate floor space and equipment. „Bpth The State Librarian, the Attorney-Gen- lighting and ventilation facilities are ex- ^ , eral, arid the Code Commission render all of cellent. the legislative; services performed. . The v State Librarian is appointed by the Gej^^ral. V Library Material . ' . -Assembly to serve a four year term. There is no staff. The,Librarian devotes pVt ^he State Library contains approxi time to legislative reference work. mately^ 75,000 bound volume^/and a considerable collection of pamphlets, peri; .LEGISLAITIVE SERVICES RENDERED ,. odicals and clippings. The material used for legislative reference work is not separate, At the present time, the Librarian main- but, with the legal collection, forms ah inte " tains a file of the bills jntroduced into the; gral part of the State Library. General Assembly arranged by subject. A set of all of the reports and documents of'' •'/ , the state is also maintained. Very little ;.- '^FINANCES'' research is done. Material is secured upoh The total expenditures for the South request of the legislators for their own use. Carolina State Library for the fecal year ?;. iu The Attorney-General drafts bills during 1933 were $5,343. In 1934 they dropped legislative sessions upon the request of the to $3,761,50. It is not possible to estimate individual members of the General As-: what portion of this expenditure is charge-"" sembly. : able against legislative reference services. /-- *>: STA^E OF SOUTH DAKOTA v , ' . HISTORY drafting services were provided and a legis The South Dakotai Legislative Reference lative reference library accumulated: Since Bureau was originally established as a di 1927, however, the constant derhands for vision of the state library in 1907.; Legis retrenchment have greatly reduced the per lative reference research and some bill sonnel and curtailed the services.. .^^.. •tk •••. • y 272 TUE~mOK OF THE. STATES . LAWS AND AMENDMENTS terest. An attempt is riiade to answer all •"The act of 1907 requires the State Li inquiries-sent to the Bureau. Bill drafting brarian "to establish a division of legis is occasionally, done by the Superinten(^ent lative reference, in which he shall provide in-his capacity as director of the LegisTa- the reports o^he various officers and boards tiye Reference Division. However, as a reT, of this state and as far as may be pos? suit of tlie many functions undertaken by sible of other states and other such' ma-': Jhe Department riiost of this service has terial upon economic and sociological sub been diwrted to the Attorney-Geineral's jects as he may be able to provide, and shall office. ^ ' index and classify the same arid make the PERSONNEL \ information therein available for the use of the state legislature, and shall, as required, Superintendent, Department of History, provide for tiie use of members of the legis LAWRENCE K. FOX .,, lature, such information and assist in draft Education: .A'^B'., "Unjversily* of South ing bills and in every reasonable way make Dakota, 1922. ; '-" !^ , the division useful in the preparation of Offices: Assistant Superintendent, State legislation." ' "^ . " • Department of Histdi'y, 1922-26. Su Established; South Dakota, ' Acts 1907,; perintendent since, 1926, Chapter 185, p. 395. . ' . • Member: Secretary and member South Under Library Commission, South Dakota, Dakota State Historical Society. Secre "Acts i913,ChapteY 217,p. 300. tary South Dakota Frjee Library Commis Under State Librariansr, South Dakota, sion since 1926. Secretary, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Commission since 1926. Revised Code of 1919, Section 9922. , Ex officio State Librarian since 1926. ORGANIZATION ' Mississippi Valley Historical' Society. -: Mirinei^a Historical Society. ; The South Dakota State Historical So , .-lw^//or^• Who's Who Among South Da- ciety administers the State Library, the kotans (1-924 and 1928). . Legislative Reference Library and the State Clubs and Organizations: ^Masqn, 52nd Department of History. The Superintend degree, Knights pf Pythias, American ent of the State Department of History is Legion^^'Lariibda Chi Alpha, i - appointed for an indefinite term by the % Married: Jennie E.Lamkiu; : Executive Committee of the South Dakota Residence: 475 Central Ave., Pierre. State Historical Society and acts as its Office Address: ]M^morial : Building, secretary. He is also ex officio State Li : Pierfie. . ^ ,.,/ s. brarian and as such becomes secretary of the South Dakota Free Library Commis LIBRARY FACILITIES * sion. The superintendent demotes -most of Office JFdcilities „. . his time during sessions to legislative refer ence and bill drafting. He is assisted dur TheLegislative.Reference Division of the; ing this period by several untrained assist State, Library is maintained ift,the State ants appofeited by „the Legislature. Capitol during the session of the legislature close to both Senate and House, chambers.' LEGISL.ATIVE SERVICES RENDERED The Superintendent'^s office is across the U»ntil 1927 an assistant had been actively street from the Capitol in the Soldiers' and in charge of the legislative reference work. Sailors' World 'War Memorial builcfing .At present the legislative reference library which was completed in 1932. in (injunction with the State Library" is maintained by the Superintendept of the Library Material State Department of History and one assist Xhe Legislative R.eference Library is a ant. The Superintendent gives advice on part of the State Library and the facilities requested subjects arid assists the legisla and materials are merged since.there is riot tors in analyzing state reports'while the sufficient personnel to care for them sepa assistant catalogues all material and com rately. The collection consists of the usual piles digests on subjects of legislative in material, bills,. departmental reports, state LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES ; 273 documents,'pamphlets, peHodicals, com'pila- sion, located in the capitpl-anniex since tions and collections of clippings. 1933, is also available. , • ••"••• '•'•••'' '\ ' 'i- ' . • . ' • ^ . .• • ' ' Other Available .Obllcctions^ .' .FINANCES • . " of Material :, •."•/. There are no special appropriations made ; , The Supreme Court Xibrary makes all to the Legislative Reference Division of of ks legal material avaijabje to. the legis the South Dakota Department of History. lators and administrative ''officials. . It.is administered solely as' a function of The library of the Free'Lrjbrary Commis that department;' " lT,4T§ OF TENNESSEM ' No official organization or. dejpartment of A private organization known as the the state government of Tennessee furr Tennessee Legislative Service was estab 'nishes legislative reference service.. The lished in 1923 and functions at the Capitol State Department of Finance and Taxa during legislative sessions. It issues,daily tion by virtue of the Code of Tennessee reports of legislative transactions for the 'A 1923, Chapter 7, Section 19 lias power . . . "to investigate the tax systems of other . information of members of the General As states, and to forrnulate and recommend sembly and state officials and will answer such legislation as'may be deemed expe occasional inquiries requiring a small dient to prevent evasion of assessmehts and amount of legislative research. The .service tax laws, and to secure a just and equal .^^erated by Mr. Verner.M. Jones'and Mr. taxation and irn'provenlent in the system of John D. Green is rendered upon contract taxation in the''state.'' This provision limr with the General Assembly and has no of its Che department to studies, on taxation. ficial status. -. •; • STATE OF.TEXAS HISTORY 1915.made an appropriation for the opera ' An act of March 19, 1909, creating the tion of the Legislative Reference Section Texas Library and Historical Commission and also considered an.amendment of its provided for a Legislative Reference Sec Joint Rules of Prpcedure to provide for the tion whichwould engage in the collection, enforced submission of all bills to this sec indexing and classification of materials for tion for revision. This amendment failed to legislative use, and in bill drafting. In pass. .The Legislature of 1917 cut all ap 1912-13 the University of Texas sent one propriations to the reference section except of their law professois,lQ.jEarry^ on._the .work.. the salary of the legislative "reference li The professor was paid his regular salary, brarian". But in 1921 an additional appro exempted from nearly all of his university priation ."for conducting the Legislative Hutres'and'-furnishea with a part time secre Reference Section" was added and has been tary. The legislative reference service was continued tP date. very satisfactory and some bill drafting was * •.,••.•-. ., •" • done. The University did not return the LAWS AND AMENDMENTS professqj: in 1915. That year, the State Library-used a stenographer's salary to . The Reference Section was established pay an assistant librarian to carry on legis by Texas, Acts, 19a9, Chapter 70, p. 120, lative reference work. The legislature of 126.. ^ r ••..••..•.••: ••• 274 THE BOOK OF THE STATEl ORGANIZATION \ PERSONNEL The Legislative, Reference Section is State'Librarian, FANNIE M. WILCOX governed as a part of the Texas State Li Librarian, Legislative Rejerence Section, brary by tiie Texas Library and Historical DORIS H. CONNERLY ' , Commission which is composed of five Education: LL.B,, University of Texas, "members appointed by the Governor, with 1919, the approvaJ of the Senate, for six-year Officer: Librarian^Law Firm, Houston, terms. The Commission appoints both a Texas, 1920-24; Law Librarian, Univer state librarian and a legislative reference sity of. Texas, 1924-26. Librarian, Leg librarian for. two-year terms. The librarian islative Reference Seetioff, State Library appoints staff members. At present iKe since 1928. . legislative re'ference librarian devotes full Residence: ' 506 West ' 29/2 Street, time to the Section and two part time staff Austin. members are regularly employed. Other Office: State Library, State Capitol, members of • the State Library staff help Austin. Vduring legislative sessions. ' ' - Assistant Legislative Reference Librarian (Part Time), MARY KATE PARKER, B.A., LL.B., Univ. of Texas; FRITZ SORRELL. LEGISLATWE SERVICES RENDERED ••-'.••• •• • •. - . • '•.',» . LIBRARY FACILITIES The Legislative Section answers all special requests for research and compila Office: Facilities tion. During the sessions a daily history The Legislative Reference Section is lo of bills and resolutions is kept, together cated with the State Library and the Su with a card catalogue containing page ref preme Court Library on the second floor of erences to the daily journals. After the the Capitol building. It has a section of sessions the Section prepares a list of all the main library for its own library which bills passed. These lists, together with a contains filings of pamphlets, clippings and table which shows at a glance a history of typewritten compilations of laws. The legislative treatment of Texas law subse planning arrangement is very convenient, quent to 1925, are extrenlely valuable. The to the House and Senate chambers. The Section alsojkeeps a card index of members^ space is so small, however, that much of of the Legislature from 1880 to the present. the niaterial of the State Library is shelved A card index of school district laws i^? kept in the basement. ." This is inconvenient as up to date. The division alsosend^' out the basement material includes such valu legal texts and compilations upon request. able reference publications as the Texas The Legislative Reference Section has pub Archives, . non-current state documents, lished certain of its more important research United States documents, periodicals, news studies, has aided in the publicatiojn of the papers, etc. " X •T: Statesman's Yearbook of Texas, and" has Library Material • . contributed its section to the biennial re The Section has in its own library over port of the State Library. A reclassification •400 feet of -separate filing cases in which of all the library material to a modified pamphlets, clipjpings, " compilations, re Dewey Decimal system has recently been ports, and other condensed material of leg ^ completed. ' - - islative value are kept. The statutes arid The bill drafting service has never been laws of Texas and of other states, are in emphasized by the Legislative Reference the adjoining main library room under the Section. Most of this work is done on supervision of the Legislative Reference request by the office of the Attorney- Section. The state court and legislative General. journals are also kept here. The State The Supreme Court Library gives li Library' contains ,n?any . bound " volumes brary service on legal matters and the Secre dealing with legislative subjects. The Sec tary of State's Office answers inquiries re tion has been allowed approximately $500 garding legislation. ' ^ for booksj a surri which is nearly one fifth LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 275 of the total annual book appropriation of .1, 1931 ancFending August 31, 1933, the the State Library. salary of the legislative reference librarian was $1 j800 per annum. An annual amount Other Library Collections Available of ?750 was allowed for "conducting legis lative reference division." This was used In addition to thg vast amount of ma fdr salaries for part-time student assistants. terial in the State Library of which" the The cost of pamphlet ..materiar and text Legislative Reference Division is a part,, book^ is paid out of the general book ap the entire resources of the University of propriation of the State Library, and it is Texas libraries are located only a fe\Y almost impossible to,estimate the propor blocks |way. The University has a greater tionate share of the legislative reference am'ount of material than the State Library*^ division. and since it is very interested in legislative . For the present biehnium, September 1, reference service it is-glad to supply not 1933-August 31, 1935, the annual-salary only material.but jesearch facilities as well. of the legislative reference librarian is fixed, at ?ij420 and the amount, for conducting • FINANCES •"•• the legislativeTeference division (salaries of For the.biennium beginning September part-time assistants) is $600 annually. STATE OF UTAH No LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE. BUREAU ,,,p* iv"2>- STATE OF VERMONT HISTORY LAWS ANDZ-AMENDMENTS j The Legislative Reference Bureau was Established Bureau, Vermont, Acts,! 1910, originally established on January 12, 1911,, . No. 9, p. 7. • ^' under the supervision of the State Library. Revisers of Bills, Vermont, Acts, 1912, No. No provision was made for bill drafting 14, p,14. services in the 1911 act but the rules of Legislative Draftsmen, Vermont, i^t Acts, the General Assembly provided for a Revi^ , 1915, No. 10, p. 74. ; • • •' : sion Committee,to which all bills were re Publish Department Reports, Vermont, ferred for correction previous to their in ' Acts, 1917, No.'32, p. 27. troduction. An act of 1912 provided for Revision, \^rmont. Acts, 1933, Sec. 367- two officers known ^ "revisers of bills," to . 371.- • ;;. • • ;• V--^ •. be appointed by the Governor and con firmed by the Senate. A later amendment ORGANIZATION of .1915 changed their title to "Legislative The Legislative Reference Bureau is a .Draftsmen" and placed the power of their part of the Vermont State Library which is appointment in the hands'of the President governed by a board of ten trustees. The of the Senate and Speaker of the Hoyse. Governor, Chief Justice, Commissioner of It also provided that the "Legislative • Education and the President of the. Ver Draftsmen" should work in conjunction mont Historical Society are ex-officio trus with and in the offices of the Legislative tees. The Board appoints the State Li Reference Bureau. An addition to the brarian^, who is ex-officio a Secretary duties of the Legislative Reference Bureau and Legislative Reference Librarian. The .was made in 1917. entire staff holds office for indefinite lerms. e^j) V . 276 THE BOOK OF THE STATES An assist^t Librarian devotes full time and PERSONNEL the State.Librarian devotes part time to legislative reference work. INO terhporary Stat(; Librarian, HAWISOU J. CONANT staff members are employed during legis Education: A;B,, Amherst College, lative sessions. 190(f; A.M., Columbia University, 1906.' The legislative draftsmen are appointed LL.B., Columbia University Law School, . for two-year terms by the President of the 1907, ...... Senate and the Speaker of the House of Offices:. Executive Secretary to Gover Representatives; The deciding vote is cast nor Mead of Vermont, 1911. Town. by tM Chief Justice if necessary. During Grand Juror, East Montpelier, 1918-22. the year 1933, there were two. legislative Librarian, Vermont iJtate Library since draftsmen. "1925. ; • '• • • . • . ' ' ^ • Member: National Association of State LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED Libraries (President, 192)6). Vermont Bar Asspciation. (secretary, 1933); The Legislative Reference Bureau col Board of Legislative.Draftsmen, Board, lects, arranges, indexes and places on file for of Public Docum.ents, Board of Geo , the use of legislators and other state ol"ficers, graphic Names.. Curator, Vermont His books, pamphlets,- clippings and exchanges. torical Society. Custodian, Vermont The Bureau maintains a complete index Public Docliments.. -/, of bills, and prepares the House and Senate Married: Bess Butterfield (1909). journals. It also prepares abstracts of Residence: 3^4 Winter Street, Mont-. the laws of other states and furnishes any • pelier, ''• available data regarding the results of laws Office: State House, Montpelier. •" in actual practice, together with, references ^ Assistant Librarian, Legislative Rejercnce to judicial interpretations of such laws. The '.^ Library, BEAT:RICE LOWE HASKINS • Legislative Reference Librarian drafts bills Educ^ation: Student, Smith College, upon the request of the legislative drafts 1907-8. : . men. The Bureau gives complete and con • Offices: First Assistant Librarian, Public densed information upon any subject on Library, Athol, Massachusetts,. 1917-21. short notice; it prepares briefs showing Assistant Librarian, Legislative Refer facts, opinions, and arguments on any ques ence Bureau of Vermont State Library tion; it cites authorities and furnishes docu since 1921. ' - ments; and finally it carries on legislative Married: Clarence H. Haskins. research and publishes resultsof its studies. Residence: 24 Marvin Street, ]\Iont-_ It also prepares a biennial "Preliminary pelier. . Legislative Manual" which is- a real help Oficc: State House, ]\Iontpelier. to members of the General Assembly. A Board of Legislative Draftsmen > cumulative.Index of Laws and a Table of • Legislative Draftsman, 1933 Wade Keys. Changes in La\ys which are contained in Legislative Draftsman, 1933 H. F. the Session Laws of each legislative session .Graham. are also edited and published by the Legisla tive Reference Bureau, The legislative draftsmen draft bills, LIBRARY FACILITIES resolutions and amendments upon request Office/Facilities of the legislators. . They perform all the functions, of a committee on revision of The Legislative Reference Bureau oc —billsr—Their-work is coordinated with that cupies one of the large offices on the main, of the Legislative Reference Bureau and no . -floor of the State House, directly under the. duplication of effort occurs. hall of the House of Represeritatives. The The temporary Statutory Revision Com Bureau is well equipped with batteries of mission completed a revision of the statutes vertical files, wall cases, cabinets-, catalogue in 1934 known as "Vermont ^J^ublic Laws, files, newspaper racks, desks, and tables. 1933.'- It* worked jointly with the legisla The lighting is good and other physical tive draftsmen. facilities are adequate. E^, LEGISMTIVEREFERENG-E SERVICES 2.77 1 Library Material / House. Much of the state lega,!, historical, • , . • ' ' • • . <» and statistical ^material is used: It is impossible for the Bureau to esti-^ The Bureau borrows material from th^__' ,mate the number of pieces of rriaterial in Vermont State Library Commission and the its files. This material includes books on JNIontpelier Public Library when it is neces "legislative subjects, law reports, files of sary. , • '' ' bills, departmental reports, compilations, pamphlets, peripdicals," collections of clip pings and. circulars. TheAVhitten system • ••y. ' . FINANCES.'- of classification is used, but has been ex-• The expenses of the Reference Bureau = panded to meet pfeent needs. and "the; State LibraLry are not separated. , The State Librarian receives a salary of Other- Library Collections^ Available, S3,000 per year^ The annual budget of the : The entire collection of • State Library State Library^ is approximately I^15,000.- material which includes a good law library The Ij^gislative draftsmen .receive ."?7.50 is only a short, distance from the State per day,, for actual time-employed. <, ; .''• t •* '%^ ' mMMONlFEALTH, OE FIRGINIA --i I . 'HISTORY ter 254, page 674, organized the.Division The Division of Statutory Research and of Statutory Research and Drafting again .Drafting is an outgrowth of the Legislative under the Gavernor. . '-•. - " Reference Burfau.. of Virginia which was created by an act approved March 21, .•.ORGANIZATION 1914.' The Bureau was an independent, The Division of StatuttJry Res^-ch arid office in charge of. a director who was ap Drafting is under the supervision oj a di pointed by the Governor with the approval rector, -who is appointed by the Governor, of the Senate. The act made provision for subject to the approvalvof^tl]^ General the collection and classification of ma Assembly. He holds office-at t^e pleasure terial, for the drafting of legislative bills of the Governor. The Director^.subject to \ and resolutions, and for the employment of the approval of the Governor, may employ the necessary personnel. The Reorganiza -—and fix- the compensation of—:the neces tion Act of 1927 placed the Legislative sary staff. The Director and .the Secretary of Reference Bureau, then designated as the the Division devote full time to legislative Division of Legislative Drafting, under the reference work. Two temporary staff mem Department of the Attorney-General where bers are employed-during legislative . ses it remained until 1930 when it was again sions. ' . • . '• •:.••• separated and placed under the supervision of a director appointed by the Governor. : LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED • The name of the Division was changed in 1930 to the Division of.Statutory Research The Division undertakes a complete leg and Drafting. islative reference service. It prepares in dexes, lists, and digests of nTaterial relating to prospective or pending legislation. It LAWS AND AMENDMENTS keeps on file copies of all bills, resolutions, Original Establishment, Acts pf Assembly, amendments, reports of committees and 1914, Chapter 194, p. 303.'- other documents. Facts regarding the prac Act of 1914 codified, Code 1919, Chapter tical operation and effect of statutes in 30, Sections 573-580. other states are accumulated. The-Di Under^Attomey-General, Acts of Assembly, rector makes researches oh-any subject of 1927, Chapte^r 33, p: 119. proposed legislation at the requefst of the The Acts. of Assembly of 1930, Chap Governor or any member of the General ^. •-••* •••>_ 278 THE BOOK OF THE STATES Assembly. Upori request, the Division will Residence: 4020 Chevy Chase Street, draft bills, resolutions and amendments; Richmond. •- ••. • ' and give advice as to the constitutionality Office: State Capitol. or probable legal effect of proposed legis S'ccrctary of Division, OCTAV^C. LAMM; lation. It prepares summaries of existing laVs affected by proposed legislation. LIBRARY .JFAGILITIES Compilations of laws irt'other states or countries relating to the subject matter of Office Facilities . . such legislation are also made. Statements as to the,operation arid effect of such laws • The physical equipment of the Division are sometimes required of the Division, is excellent. The three offices maintained The Director examines statutory laws for .by. the Division of Statutory Research and defective and obsolete statutes and other Drafting are located on the third floor of irregularities and reports his findings to the Capitol Building, directly across the 'the Governor. Continuous statutory re hall from the office of the Governor and vision arid codification is carried on be very near the offices of the-Secretary of tween sessi%s. . . ,:: the Commonwealth and the Director of the Budget. The chambers of the Senate and •-'••• •• •, -/v" • • • •• •• PERSONNEL :,., the House of Delegates are on the second floor while, the Committee rooms are Director, Division of Stdtidory Research largely, on >tlie first floor. The entire ar-' and Drafting, yViLLiA^ R. SHANDS ' rangement is very convenient. \' • Library Material y WILLIAM" R. The library keeps all state statutes, Vir ginia and United States Reports and Codes, . SHAN'DS.y. , and acts of the General Assembly. , The Library, does.not have a great vol Director,. ume of periodical literature except on par Division of • ticular matters in which the General'^s- Staliitory sembly is or will probably be interested.. In such instances everything available is Research collected. . When the General Assembly and Drafting. acts on the matter, the'material is often turned over to the State Library/ior pres ervation. . The Reference Library is thus kept, "free of material which, from the legislative viewpoint, is obsolete. Education: Student, College of William /-Other Available Library Collections and Mary/ Williamsburg, .Virginia, 1913- 15. LL.B., University of Richmond, .The Virginia State Library and State 192,1. • taw Library are .located in the Library Offices: Director, Securities Division, Building about 200 feet from, the Capitol. State Corporation Commission, 1921-26. The Division has access to the records and Active law practice, Richmond; Virginia, materials of each.- 1926::30. Faculty Member, T. C. Wil liams School of Law, University of Rich FINANCES .', •- ,' ;' mond, 1925-31. Director, Division.of Statutory Research and Drafting ^nce The total expenditures of the Division .193a of Statutory Research and Drafting for Member: Virginia Bar Association; each fiscal year (J[uly 1 to June 30), from Richmond Bar Association.. 1930-31 to the fiscfMyea r 1933-34 are as Marr/erf; Josephine Winston. follows: •id- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 219 1930-31 : . 1931-32 .1932-33 .: • .1933--34 Director $4,166.60 • $5,000:00. $4,216.08 $4,158.72 Secretary •,1,500.00 ; 1,500.00^ : •9.08.49. . 1,32*^.77 Draftsmen, etc. 3,244.90-. • 2,888.56 Other Expenses 423.82 : 7.16.28 . V 200.37 .. .^: ' 728.15 ..... f ,• ..11 Total .<;6,Q90.42 $10,461,18 $5,324.94 $9,098V20 STATE OF WASMINGTON J '•••\:' 7; . . HISTORY .;'• .. 'f^' .; tionality of some proposed legislation and • investigation^ of the economic, phases of The Washingtop State Law Library.and; pending acts . both within and outside of the Washington State Library have been ; the state. A bill file is kept and the libra rendering certain legislative reference serv ries attempt to secure information re ices for many years. However, neither de-. quested by legislators. The State Library "partment has been officially/established as. and the Law'Library cooperate effectively; an agency for this purpose by legislative to ' avoid '.duplication.. The Attorney-; act or departmental order, nor has anyspe- General employs two specialassistantsdur- ,cific appropriation ever been made. ing the legislative sessions for bill drafting. , ORGANIZATION PERSONNEL •"".' State Law Library .' State Law Librarian, MARK H. WISHT ..The Stat^Law Librarian is appointed for . Edticatton:.:*Stu6\ed -at the University an indefinite term by' the Judges of the ' of JJtah. A.B., Syracuse Universityj Supreme Court. The Law Librarian ap 1912.• : y . , points his staff on a similar basis.- None OfHccs: In active law practice in. of the staff devote_full time to legislative Olympia, 1915-22,- Assista'fit Attorney- reference work. No temporary staff mem General, Washington, 1922-28. State bers are employed to engage in this work. Law Librarian since 1928. __ during legislative sessions. Member: W'ashington State Bar Asso ciation, blympia Pubhc School Board • '--•". State Library since:J931. Ex-officio Secretary Wash The State Librarian is, appointed for ington Judicial Council. an indefinite term by the State Super Clubs and Organizaiiotis: Olympla. Ro intendent of Public Listruction. . The li tary Club. American Legion. Masons. brary staff is appointed for indefinite terms; Married: Maude Seneco. ' -^ by the State Librarian. No member of the Residence: 2501 Columbia , Street, library staff devotes full time to legislative Olympia. -^ : ••—' reference service. During legislative, ses Office: Temple of Justice, Olympia. sions one temporary staff member, trained Assistant Law Librarian, RALPH ROGERS in legislative, reference Service, and an e.xtra.. Secretary, GERTRUDE QUERY clerk are employed.; State Librarian, MILDRED'H.I'ovE Assistant Librarian, AiiA GRIM HAMILTON LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES- A ttorney-General, G. W. .iflENDERED • \ . LIBRARY • FACILITIES Both the State -Library and the State . Law Library undertake library service and " """~'~"7"' 0 Facilities some legislative research for state legisla The State Library and State Law Li tors and other-State officials. The research brary ar-e. both located in the Washington has consisted of studies on the-constitu Temple of Justice, less than a blocK- from ^ ri;Yt' 280 / THE BOOK OF THE STATES-• the Gapitol. The building is very modern • FINANCES' and all of the facilities are adequate. No specific appropriation is rhade by the Washington Legislature for legislative ref .' • Library Materials erence services. It is impossible to esti The'^tate Law Library contains 65'000 mate the portion of the e.vpenditures of volumes.which includes the laws anB reports either the State Library or tlfe State Law of every.state, the United States, G'anada Library which is chargeable against the and England.. It also has reports! from legislative services rendered. The average Australia, \South Africa and India.\ In biennial expenditure of the Washington addition, it^as the usual curr^ent legalpub- State.Library is close to $20,000, lications including reports,^ digests, tMs Owing to the very limited appropriation and periodicals. :\ -. for the current biennium,.the State La>V The State Library contairi^ approxir Library has been compelled to discontinue mately.55,000 bound volumes and a great the purchase-of new legal publications and number of pamphlets, periodic}ils, reports has also been required to discontinue some arid clippings. A. small appropriation is of the periodicals to which it previously made for new books. subscribed. STJTE OF JFEST mRGINiA ' HISTORY •.•LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED No legislative reference and bill drafting The Historian personally gives as much, service has been officially organized in West legislative reference service as time permit^i A'irginia, and no specific appropriation has He answers inquiries of legislators concefn-| been made for the service. The Governor, ing matters of legislation and all pertinent in 1913, requested the State Historian and and available legislative material is kept : Archivist to organize a legislative refer for the ready use of the members of the Leg- ; ence section in the Department of Archives islatui*e, adniihistrativ.e officers and other/l and History. Since then 'some research citizens."-^here is no opportunity, for ex- 1 and tentative drafts of legislation have tended legislative research. The Depai:t- \ been made. . ' . ment has undertaken, to a limited e.xtent, J There has been an active movement to the preparation of teritative drafts of legis create ail official Legislative Bureau in West lative measures in accordance'with-speci-; \'irginia for several years. The West Vir fications submitted by the legislators de ginia University at ^Nlorgantown is plan siring a bill. ning a legislative reference service at the Lf'niversity for the use of the Governor PERSONNEL and the Legislature.. State Historian and Archivist, CLIFFORD-R. ORGANIZATION MYERS. ' ' ,. ' Education: A.B.,-'West Virginia Uni The State Historian and Archivist is ap versity, Morgantown, 1907. , M.A., pointed by the Governor for a "four-year West Virginia University, 1909. Studied, term and he in turn appoints staff members • University of Chicago, Summers of .1914 for an indefinite tefm subject to approval ' • and 1915. by the Governor. The department has a Offices: Assistant Superintendent, Public staff of four employees, none of whom Schools, Ravenswood, West Virginia, devote full time to legislative reference ,1910-13. .. Instructor, State: Normal service* No temporary staff members are School, Concord, West Virginia, 1913- employed during legislative sessions. .' 1914. Teacher, High School, Hibbing, •%^^ ,LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 281 ^Minnesota, 1914-16. State Historian . Library Facilities ? and Archivist since 1919. Member:^ American Historical Associa The Pepartmentof Archives and History tion, Mississippi Valley Historical Asso 'gathers all rnaterial that is likely to be of ciation j Illinois Historical Association. use to the legislative and administrative Ohio Archeoldgical and Historical As- branches of the state; government and spe cially arranges it for legislative reference • sociationy West Virginia Library Asso purposes. It is however, difficult to segre-' ciation. National Educational Asso- gate'the legislative reference material quan ' ciation. • * . \ ' - titatively, as much of it makes up the regular Gltibs . and Organizations: American library. Legion Masons; Elks; Odd Fellows; -Kiwanis and Sigma Nu.-Fraternity. , •.'<• . •• ' • • ' ••""; /•.' .,•" " ••-'', . . Married: Evelyn D,j\Iorton. . ..Other Available Collections Residence: 708 Main Street,.Charleston, The L^niversity of West Virginia .at ; Office: State Gapitol, Charleston. Morgan town has a very fine'librat-y which Librarian, FLORENCE SCHUM ' is;open to legislative and administrative Cc/o/o^«er, EDNA LEWIS • . " . : officials although it is about one hundred Stenographer, 0v\L'^-[3CK0hS miles away. The University contemplates setting up a legislative reference bureau at •' LIBRARY FACILITIES . Charlestown during legislative sessions'and Office Facilities ; . atMbrgantown in other times. ; /^. The State Department of; History and FINANCES ., - ^ '•' Archives Is housed in the Capitol building, Unit Two. It has adequate facilities and No sieparate appropriation is made by the is fairly close to both House aiid Senate. Legislature.qf West Virginia for legislative Chambers., reference or bill drafting services. • Sr^TE OF JFISCONSIN HISTORY pamphlets.. By the end of the session, leg While the State of New York actually , islation was passed placing the innovation started a Legislative Referencie Bureau as under the Free Library Commission. Bill a section of the State Library in 1890, it drafting was one of the functions of the was Wisconsin that first attracted national department from the beginning, and in 1907, interest in the field. The Legislative Ref legislation was enacted authorizing the em erence Library of the Wisconsin Free Li ployment of bill draftsmen (luring and for brary Commission was established in 1901. sixty days prior to sessions. In 1909 the It owes much of the^success i^.has achieved office of revisor of statutes was created and to the late Dr. Charle:5 McCarthy who was the plan .of continuous statutory revision ^ its chief from 1901 until his death in 1921. ii^iaugiirated...... Its establishment is said to" date from a ''^he Wisconsin depa^gnent was the first time when several members of the legisla one which cornbined t^ two functions of ture walked from the capitol to the historical reference service and bill-drafting under library at the university to seek information one control. IMoredver, reference service 'f^ on a siibjectriri.which they were interested. as conceived in Wisconsin, differed con There they met a graduate student who as siderably from the activities .which had sisted them in their research. They took been.carried on under that name in New him back to the.capitol. to start an infor York and Massachusetts. The collecting mation service for merhbers of the state and digesting of state laws is certainly an legislature. The first bureau consisted of item of such-work, but Wisconsin went much McCarthy a:nd a few borrowed books and . further, and attempted to collect and make 282 THE BOOK OF THE STA TES immediately available every sort of ma Legislative Reference Library is a board terial. It was the aim of the department of.. five members: three, ex officio mem to be able to supply any legislator with bers—the President of the Li^niversity of material on any subject about which he Wisconsin, the State Superintendent ofv . might inquire, and to do so in the briefest Public Instruction; and the Secretary of possible time. The- department was im the'State Historical Society—:and two citi- mediately popular with the legislature, and , zens appointed by the Governor for five- appropriations grew steadily. Statutory year terms. All of. this 'members of the revision' is carried on by an indepeiidient Commission are remoLved from politics. It department, whose h^ead, the Revisor of , is an-tmpaid, part-time boardj which meets Statutes, is selected by the trustees of the only once or twice a year,. but it has a state library consisting of. the 'justices of permanent secretary. Its principal func the supreme'cout-fand the attorney-general, tions in relation to the Legislative 'Refer ,i.all ex-officio, ence Library are the selection of its chief, Since its organization'the Legislative the annual reiview of its work, and the ap- Reference Library has consistently in . provaJ"of its budgets. Legally, the Com- creased in size and scope of activities and ^.mission controls the • Legislative Reference in popularity with the legislators. Library in. all respects, but, it has always, pureed the policy of giving the chief a LAWS AND AMENDMENTS free hand and holcling him responsible for "The said commission, (Wisconsin results. .This set-up has worked e.xcep- '. Free Library Commission) is also tionally well. It has kept the Legislative, .•• authorized and directed to maintain in Reference Library out of the maelstrom of the state capitol, for the use and in- politics, and thereby has enabled it to ' .^; formatipn of the legislature, the sev- • ^render a strictly non-partisan service. eral state departments and such other There are some distinct advantages re citizens as^may desire to consult the sulting from its connection with.the other ' same, a working library . ... to; co branches of the state library service—and... operate \yith Historical Society . , . .no disadvantages, v.. in the matter of books." • . The permanent staff of the Legislative I An original appropriation of $1,500 was Reference Library consists-of eleven per made for this purpose. sons: the chief, five librarians and research . Establishment, Wis., Acts, 1901, Chapter. assistants, four stenographers and clerksp „// 168, pp. 213. and a part-time messenger. In addition, Definition of Duties, Wis., Acts, 19.03, : there are employed as bill draftsmen during: Chapter 177, pp. .384. •.•/,_ • [ ' legislative sessions several attorneys (five • Increased Appropriationj Wis.,-Acts, 1905; at the opening^pf the session, reduced to : Chapter 177,pp. 263: two at the end), and as many stenographers Increased Appropriation and Bill drafts and clerks as are needed to, type, proof men,^ Wis., Acts! 1907, Chapter 508, read, and index bills. Some state em pp. 70. . ployees may. do extra work evenings in Increased Functions, Wis., Acts, 1913, the bill-drafting department. The entire Chapter 772,. pp, 1269. ^^ staff is selected and employed under the Emergency fund for Special Sessions, Wis., provisions of the. state civil service law. Acts, 1917, Chapter 425, pp.'%90. . Eleven persons devote full time"^o the . Memorial to; McCarthy, Wis., Acts, 1921, service and twenty to tw'enty-five temporary ;;• pp. 1160. : "-. J, -^.. To Edit Wisconsin Blue Book, Wis.,. Acts, staff members are employed during leg [:• 1929, Chapter 194; islative sessions. Codify Wis. Labor Laws, Wis., Apts, 1929, As previously stated the Revisor of Chapter 393. - Statutes is selected by the trustees of the state library.' The trustees include the ?^: ORGANIZATION justices of the state supreme court and the The Wisconsin-Free Library Comrnis- attorney-general, all ex officio. A staff of sion, which is the governing-body, of the. fivedevotes full time to continuous revision. •:s^ •/ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICES 283 SERVICES—RENDERED people outside of the state. The latter, • • v.- • ••••., with only minor exceptions to be; noted Le^gislative Reference Library hereafter, is done only for members of the The/department undertakes SL complete legislature and upon their wTitten instruc legislative reference service—excepting tions, ^"legislative reference, work is carried only statutory ' -revision—^^for legislators, on at all times, both during and between state officials, public commissions, universi- sessions; whereas %[\\ drafting is done al ti^, public^organizatioriS, ciLv and county most exclusively during sessions and for .officials, candidates and. citizens. about a month before the opening of each '' Every effort is made to keep the library session. The majority*of the major studies collection up-to-date in relation to chang-. and compilations are made by the Legisla- /• ing legislative interests, and biennially be • tiyevJReference Library between sessions. tween sessions rniich of theoldmat/erial," Wi^onsin^started the practice of sending which is no longer of current value, is given out a dfcul^ letter between sessions to dis to the State Historical Library or otherwise cover tlfe^feubjects in which legislators disposed of. The Legislative Reference Li were most^ interested. Information, was brary has never prided, itself, upon the size then gathered on those subjects. of its collection; rather, it^'^^aim has bee^ In addition, the Wisconsin Library to have the smallest possible working li publishes the state year book and renders brary ofAhe best material oh the legislative a detailed annual report of its services. questions of immediate interest, so minutely ^--^H classified and catalogued that the refer ence workers can locate all available infor Revisor of Statutes \ mation in a few minutes. The Dewey As before stated, the department of the /pecimEd classification has been developed Revisor of Statutes is not connected with and e.xtended to meet the needs'of the li the Legislative Reference Library, though brary. The library collection^ is invalu it is closely related to it in its functions. able for the services rendered by 'the It is the work of the Revisor which rnakes Legislative Reference Library. It is, how it possible for Wisconsin to publish its ever, conducted only as a means to the ends compiled statutes biennially in one law for which the Legislative Reference Library book six months after the adjournment is maintained. .'' of the legislaturev He consolidates, This libi;ary is rather a research organi reconciles, and clarifies all sections of the zation than a library, as this term is usually- statutes and repeals dead material by understood. It has.both readers and bor "revision" bills presented during each legis rowers, biit it does not measure its work lative session. - in terms Tof circulation. While it is glad •. • • . j , • . to have students and others who are en / . PERSONNEL gaged in research studies upon govern- Chief, Legislative Reference . Library, . nierital problems fnake use of its collec- HOWARD F. OHM .. tions,^nd while it\fre'&iy loans.its books . Education: LL.B.^ University of'Wis and articles to all who have use for them, consin, 1913. .; these are merely incidental services. • O^cb: Draftsman during regular ses The major services of the Wisconsin Leg sions of Wisconsin Legislature, Wiscon islative Reference Library are two: legisla sin Legislative Reference Library, 1911- tive reference work.and bill drafting. The 1921; (1929-1933). Special legal as former consists of locating, compiling, and sistant to Wisconsin State Board of Pub digesting information on pending or past lic Affairs, 1913-1915. General law legislation, in response to specific requests. practice, Madison, 1915-1927, 1931- .The latter involves the drafting of bills, 1933. Counsel to Wisconsin'Legislative resolutions, and amendments for introduc Interim Committee on Marketing, 1919- tion in the legislature. The former is'a 1921. Examiner, Industrial Commission service extended to members of the legis of Wisconsin,. 1927-1931. Chief, Wis- lature, state departments, local officials, ; consin Legislative Reference Library private citizens, and, occasionally, even to since 1933. 284 THE BOOK OF THE STATES Chibs and Organizations:- Delta Up- Association; Wisconsin Bar'Association. silon and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Dane County Bar Association, W^.iscon- Married: Helene B. Dunfield. sin Historical Society. Madison Library Residence: 1811 Vilas Avenue, Madison. Boardr , ' 0^c«; State Capitol, Madison. Clubs and Organizations: Gamma Eta -X.J.: HOWARD F. EUGENE E. > OHM BROSSARD . Chief, Legislative Revisoroj Rcjercncc Statutes. , Library Librarian, ^IRS, MARY M. KIRSCH : Gamma law fraternity. Catholic Com Research Associate, MRS. LUCILLE MC munity. Association; Trustee St.. Paul's^ CARTHY ; » University Chapel.\ • ' : i?c5earc/f'.-l5soc/a|e, ANN NEAL Married: WMdower. Research Associate:, LJEONE G, BRYHAN Residence: 1130 Erin Street, Madison, Assistant Librarian, iREtiE. AVP^HN 'Wisconsin. ^ . . ' ' Library Assistant, (to be atD.pointed.) (.Office: State Capitol, Madison, y Chief Clerk of Drafting Division, DELL A [Statute Editor, J.ii. BLIED MEYERS \ Statute Editor, LORRETTA F. DINNEEN . Secretary, AGNES CARR 'Secretary, DELMA COCORAN Clerk, MiNA NEVIPSTS . C/cr^, NELL PURCELL . ' A ssistant Clerk, MRS . ANNA JOHNSON . \ Session Bill Drafter,] A^ni.s]. MAC DONALD Se.ssion Bill Drafter, LEON E. ISAACSON I LIBRARY FAGILITIES Session Bill Drafter, (Three additional to Physical Adequacy be appointed,) . ^ Revisor of Statutes, EUGENE E, BROSSARD The Legislative Reference Library is lo Education: B.L., University of Wiscon cated on the second floor of the new north sin, 1888. LL.B.,-University of Wis wing in the state capitol building. Orl the consin, 1890. . same floor in other wings, the senate arid as Offices: Law Practice, Ashland and Co- sembly charribers' and supreme court are -..'lumbus, Wisconsiri, 1890-1915. City located. The quarters were planned by Attorney, Ashland, 1897-99. Teacher the late Dr.. McCarthy and were.then Public Schools Columbia County, Wis deemed adequate for normal e.xpansion;. consin-two years. Mayor and member Increased demand for services have re of Board of Education, Columbus, Wis quired the use of the entire space before it consin, 1902-1904. Assistant .Attorney-, was expected. General of Wisconsin, 1915-1922. Re The building .is -a fire proof structure visor of Statutes since 1922. • with both.direct and indirect heating sys Member: Secretary and member Wis-, tems thermostatically controlled. A force . Gonsin Judicial Council, Commissioner draft ventilation system is used. . All rooms on-Uniform State Laws. .American Bar with the exception of the stacks and vault ^? LEGISLATIVE REFEREl^CE SERVICES 285 are oh the outside and have five by ten foot terial, exclusive of newspaper clippings. windows. The numbier of newspaper clippings is also The'aggregate of working space ^ about approxiriiately 75,000. / . six thousand square feet. This consists of: Of the 75,000 pieces Of material men a main library room, the bill drafting room, tioned above, 20,000 pieces are known a-s a room, adjoining .the drafting room,_ "State Document Callectipn"' and are the wherein the drafting records of the current official reports of, the various departments or last legislative session are kept and of the-Wisconsin state gpv&mmenl. They whiere some of theclipping work is done be- are equally divided between bound and un ;. twieen sessions; adjoining the latter is a bound volumes, ' ": ;. room of the same size, which, betweemses- o. ^TH^rV. are not more than 10,000 other ;\^sions, is -used as the chief's private.office pieces of bound material ; on the regular , and duHng the legislative sessions as a shelves. These consist of valuable sta work room for stenographers. • tistical material, suclr~as: U. S. census re Adjoining the' main library rcjom are ports^ Bureau of Labor statistics,.Monthly. four floors of-Stacks, wEereih most of the Labor Review, etc. library material is kept. The remainder of the coTlection^consists A vault, equipped ; with forty-.eight of unbound pamphlets, proceedingsof-con- filing cases, provides storage space for ventions and organizations, political cam supplies and drafting records.^ i^dd.i-' paign . material, manuscript 'studies, tiohal. space is availabl'ein tlie. vault for.- documents—all ~valuable in content .but forty-eight more pases sufficient to enable •inexpensive to accjuire. : . ."* .drafting records tQ, be • kept in the vault for ten years. Other Available Library Collections The mairi library room is equipped with wall shelving for the most used material, The State Law Library: The law library catalogue cases containing nearly 275,000 is housed'^ in the, capitol building. It is catalogue cards, four desks for staff mem used for session laws .and statutes of the bers and three large tables for visitors. United States and the different states, laws ' The stacks have open steel shelving with of foreign countries, legal magazines, court ceiling lights,, The main aisles are equipped decisions, etc. '. with'small tables. .Electric fans are pro The Universttv of Wisconsin Librar^i: The vided oh each floor of the stacks for "addi University library and the special libraries tional ventilation. of this library are used for reference and The drafting room has a large tableland research assignments as well as for the bor '^tfiye desks for draftsmen during sessions. rowing of books. . .' ^'S'he.chief clerk's office adjoining the draft The State Historical Library] This.library ing room, contains twehty-si.x filing cases is ..used as a source of books arid govern- . of drafting records and desks and tables ment documents, and as a base f()r compil : for the staff. . ing reference and research material. . Additional space will be available on the The United States Forest Products Library: installation.'of permanent steel shelving in Valuable material on natural resources is the near future. . "available at this library.' ^ Departmental Material FINANCES At the present time there Tare on the The table on the next page gives a com shelves pt the Legislative Reference Li plete financial picture of the WisconsinLegis- brary approximately y^.tDOO pieces of ma lative. Reference Library since 1929-1930. Ikvs 286 THE BOOK OF THE STA TES EXPENDITURES If : • • Supplies . Books Years Appropriation • Salaries Postage . =and Total General Drafting Aiiscl. Periodicals 1929-1930 $26,25D* $21,434.82 $ 2,924.45 $1,135.93- , $679.25 $26,174;45 " 1930-1931 • 41,000 • 19,568.63 > 18,000.00 2,825:72.' •;• '^^501.94 40,896:29 1931-1932 27,000 22,944.97 2,634.75 • . 905.78 '" 467.70 . 26,953.20 1932-1933 . „ 42,S00t • 20,388.70 13,939.14 .2,174.55 : • 298.91 36,8OU0 1933-1934 25,000 fl 20,127.43:}: • 2,794;43| . 1,598.85 .470.81 24,99l.52§ * Not including specif appropriation of $3,000 for compiling and publishing Wisconsin Labor •.. • Laws. - • ' ^' ._',(, •.•"..•;•'• t Less emergency reduction of $728.30.' * j Waiver of about .10 per cent. • . § Estimated-r-Secretary of "State's books not yet closed. . . STATE OF WYOMING '¥.. ^ • HISTORY . with the approval of-the Governor, for a "... - , • - • ^' ' similar term. Neither the Librarian nor The Wyoming State Library has taken anyy-rnember of her staff can give much over a few legislative reference activities, time to legislative reference work and ho but no legislative reference division or de temporary staff members are employed partment has been officially set up either during'sessions of the': Legislature. . . within or outside of .the Library, . A bill drafting committee was created PERSONNEL 'as a result of afi appropriation act approved February 24, 1917, which contained the State Librariari, ALICE LYMAN item entitled "Compensation-Bill Drafting Offices: Secretary to U. S. Senator Ken- Comc&ittee." The amount of the appro- ^.priatjion was very small and has long since been'discontinued. At the present time the Legislature usually employs two attorneys to draft bills which the mernberswish to present. ALICE LYMAN . . LAWS AND AMENDMENTS State The appropriation act creating the Bill Dl-afting Comnfiittee made appropriation Librarian "for services rendered to members of both branches of the Legislature, and its committees, during the session, in prepa.ration of bills, resolutions, and amendments theretoj examining and revising; proposed bills, advising^ as to the effect thereof on existing laws and pending measures." Wyoming, Acts, drick, 1917-33. State Librarian since 1917, Chapter 1:25, Section 55, p. 232. • 1933. ft -•-.'• • . - . , • . . * • • Residence: V\a.ms, Hotel, Cheyenne; ' ORGANIZATION Oj^ce." State Capitol, Cheyenne.. . The Wyoming State Librarian is ap LEGISLATIVE SERVICES RENDERED / pointed by the Governor, for a two year term. The Libraripji appoints the staff, Before each. session of the Legislature' LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVfCES 287 the State Librarian writes to each of the • Library Materials newly elected members inquiring as to the The Wyoming State Library contains kind^of legislation in which he is particu 125,000 pieces of material including books,; larly interested. Material on these sub pamphlets, periodicals, reports, documents, jects is gathered and placed for reference etc. No count is made of each separate use. The Librarian also attempts to ob class 01 material. ^The law library is in tain pamphlet bills and laws from all of cluded within the State Library. the states to place On file in the document "-division for the u^e of the legislators. The Other Library Collections Available lawyers emplofra by the Legislature are •r The only other available library is the engaged entirely in bill drafting and do no t,aramie County Carnegie Public Library reference work. which contains approximately 33,000 vol •. ••; A ; ,..'.••..•• - /; umes. • LIBRARY FACILITIES . ,• FINANCE There is no separate appropriation for. Office Facilities legislative services. The State Library re The State Library is located in the State ceives a regular biennial appropriation of Capitol Building close to both House and approximately $32,000 to cover all of its .Senate Chambers.- It has adequate facili activities. The session bill drafters are ties at present but there is little room.for paid from a business Jund set aside for e.xpansibn. the Legislature. •\i-?:^. ^•# ••f.0 K fr-