CONTENTS. 1-Biennial Report of the Trustees of the California State Library. 1896–1898. 2-Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Preston School of Industry. 1896- 3-Biennial Report of the State Board of Fish Commissioners. 1896–1898. 4-Biennial Report of the Trustees of the State Normal School at San José. 1897-1898. 5-Sixth and Seventh Annual Reports of the California State Board of Pharmacy. 6-Report of the Committee appointed by the Senate to Examine State Institutions. 7-Report of Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law-Civil Code. 8--Supplemental Report of the Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY. A SACRAMENTO, CAL., June 30, 1898. To his Excellency JAMES H. BUDD, Governor of California: We have the honor of submitting to you, in conformity with law, our biennial report for the forty-eighth and forty-ninth fiscal years. The report of the State Librarian is hereto attached and made a part hereof. It will be noticed that the two preceding years cover almost entirely the administration of our predecessors. As will be seen, the receipts for said period amount to $40,142 65; the expenditures amount to $43,622 46; the balance on hand, as per statement of the Controller, is $8,969 88. We desire to follow in the line of the several suggestions contained in the report of the State Librarian, and especially commend for your notice his suggestion with reference to providing separate rooms for the Law Department and the opening of the same to the public during evening hours; the providing of a method for the future annual inventorying of books without extra employment; the carrying out of the new system of cataloguing which he has commenced; the strict enforcement of the rules pertaining to the loaning of books, and the suggestions with reference to the future of the library. Respectfully submitted. FRANK D. RYAN, President of Board. ALLEN B. LEMMON. BRADNER W. LEE. J. H. NEFF. THOS. FLINT. |