118 MARYLAND MANUAL
Inspectors:
Kathryn Considine Baltimore
Michael A. Coughlan Baltimore
Sadie Dorsey Baltimore
Geraldine Edgar Baltimore
Mary C. Fahey Baltimore
Motion Picture Operators:
Arthur J. Stewart Baltimore
William Gershourtz Baltimore
Stenographers:
(Senior) Helen R. Saumenig Reisterstown
Sarah Borinsky 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. 555, 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 provisions of the Act do not apply to any non-commercial ex-
hibition of films by religious, charitable or fraternal organizations, 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
Board and without examination of film, provided proper affidavits of
character of film are made to the Board.
"The Board is self-sustaining, having as its source of revenue fees col-
lected for the examination and licensing of films."
THE MARYLAND RACING
COMMISSION
Maryland Trust Building, Baltimore..2, Md.
Commissioners: Address. Term Expires.
Frank Small, Jr. Clinton 1947
H. Courtenay Jenifer Timonium 1949
George P. Mahoney Glyndon 1945
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