100 MARYLAND MANUAL

The executive direction of the Department of Postmortem Ex-
aminers is vested in a Commission composed of the Director of the
State Department of Health, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore
City, the Superintendent of Maryland State Police, and the Professors
of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of
Maryland. The Department, which was established in 1939, replaced
the coroners of Baltimore City by a Chief and two Assistant Medical
Examiners and the county coroners by Deputy Medical Examiners.
All personnel are appointed by the Commission. It is the duty of the
Department, or the Deputy Medical Examiners assigned to it, to
investigate violent and suspicious deaths or those unattended by a
physician. A report of all deaths investigated must be filed with the
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The records of the Department
are open for inspection to the family of the deceased and are accept-
able in Court as evidence of the facts contained (Code 1939, 1947
Supp., Art 22, sees. 1-8. The Deputy Medical Examiners are paid by
the county for each death investigated. The salaries of the Chief
Medical Examiner, the Assistant Medical Examiners and the Toxi-
cologist are paid by the State Comptroller. (Acts 1949, Ch. 246).
All other expenses of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are
paid by the City of Baltimore.

Expenditures Appropriation
1949 1950

State of Maryland ...........................$ 833.32 $45,000.00

City of Baltimore .............................. 66,245.00

Total ....................................................$67,078.32

Staff: 20. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes, and
Pathologists: 95.

STATE ROADS COMMISSION

Chairman: Robert. M. Reindollar
Russell H. McCain, Joseph M. George
Charles R. Pease, Secretary

Albert S. Gordon, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
William F. Childs, Jr., Chief Engineer
Carl L. Wannen, Comptroller
William A. Codd, Chief Auditor

Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant to the Attorney
General

108 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore 3 Telephone: Lexington 4370

The State Roads Commission was established in 1908 succeeding to
the highway survey functions of the Maryland Geological and Eco-
nomic Survey. The Commission consists of three members, appointed
by, and holding office at the pleasure of, the Governor. One of the
members must be a resident of the Eastern Shore, one a resident of
the Western Shore, and one a resident of Baltimore City, or a person
who, at the time of his appointment and for a period of at least two
years prior thereto, has continuously had his principal place of busi-
ness, or employment or professional activity in Baltimore City. At least
one member must be affiliated with one of the two leading political
parties different from that to which the Governor belongs (Code 1947
Supp. Art. 89B, sec. 1).

The State Roads Commission has jurisdiction over the construction,
maintenance and administration of the State highway system; and
in addition, maintains, constructs, or reconstructs the road systems