Senior Stenographer:
Helen R. Saumenig. ............................. Reisterstown

Junior Stenographer:
Sarah Borinsky.................................. Baltimore

Film Reviewer:
William C. Wright. .............................. Baltimore

Inspectors:

Michael A. Coughlan. ............................ Baltimore
Howard G. Cooling. ................................. Barton
Harry J. Hunt. ................................. Baltimore
Mrs. Sadie M. Dorsey. .......................... .Baltimore

Film Examiners and Measurers:
J. Elwood Knight. .............................. .Baltimore

Motion Picture Operators:

Arthur J. Stewart. ............................... Baltimore
William Gershourtz..............................Baltimore

The Board consists of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary,
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of three years. (Ch. 390, 1922; Ch. 655, 1929; and Ch. 430, 1939).

The duties of the Board are to examine all films, reels or views to
be exhibited or used in the State of Maryland; to approve such as are
moral and proper, and to condemn or eliminate those which, in the
judgment of the Board, tend to debase or corrupt morals, or incite to
crime.

The Board receives in advance a fee of $2.00 for each 1,000 feet of
film, or fractional part thereof, submitted for examination, and $1.00
for each duplicate of 1,000 feet, or fractional part thereof, if submitted
within a year after the examination and approval of the original film.
Upon completion of the examination the Board issues a certificate stat-
ing the result of the examination and furnishes an official approval
seal, record of which is kept by the Board.

Persons submitting films to the Board for examination, if dis-
satisfied with the result of the first examination, may, upon appeal,
submit the same film to the Board for re-examination, and finally to
the City Court of Baltimore.

Any person failing to display the approval seal of the Board may
be fined from $5.00 to $10.00, or in default of payment may be sen-
tenced to imprisonment from two to five days.

The law under which the Board was operating was found to be in-
adequate. A bill, therefore, was introduced and passed by Act of the
Legislature of 1922, Chapter 390, which repealed and re-enacted each
and every section of the original Acts of 1916, 1918 and 1920, with
amendments and changes, conferring additional powers upon the
Board and providing increased penalties for violations of the Act.

The Act of 1929 provides for a new schedule of fees chargeable by
the Board.

The provisions of the Act do not apply to any non-commercial ex-
hibition of films by religious, charitable or fraternal organizationg, or
by any library, school or museum, for purely religious, charitable,
fraternal or educational purposes. The Board is authorized to issue
permits free of charge to organizations of the above character where
exhibitions of films of the above type are to be shown in public places
of amusement, such permits to be issued at the discretion of the