Commonwealth of Massachusetts. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. To the Honorable Legislature of Massachusetts. THE librarian of the State Library, in accordance with sect. 8 of chap. 5 of the General Statutes, submits the following report for the year ending Sept. 30, 1880: ADDITIONS. Number of Volumes added to the Library from Oct. 1, 1879, to Sept. 30, FINANCIAL STATEMENT. COMMONWEALTH IN ACCOUNT WITH TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LIBRARY. CR. Cash drawn from appropriations for 1878 and $793 33 1879. 1879. postage $6.40 300 By the foregoing account, which embraces the library year from Oct. 1, 1879, to Sept. 30, 1880, inclusive, it will be seen that the receipts and expenditures may be aggregated as follows: There remained in the treasury Sept. 30, 1880, an unexpended balance of the several appropriations made on account of the library of $440.32. AMERICAN LAW REPORTS. The special appropriation made by the Legislature of 1880 for the purchase of American Law Reports has covered the expense of the purchase of all the volumes needed to complete our series. Many of these volumes were rare, and their purchase has required a diligent search, extending to nearly every State in the Union. The library now contains complete sets of the printed reports of the decisions of all the courts of final resort in every State and Territory of the Union. Special effort has been made and will be continued to secure the current reports as rapidly as they are issued from the press; and it is believed that the current session laws and reports, together with the latest compilations of statutes and digests of reports, are now on the libraryshelves in the most convenient arrangement for use. |