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serving and regulating the water resources of the Upper Potomac
River and its tributaries. To carry out its purpose, the Commission
is authorized to acquire, lands, structures, buildings, waterways,
watersheds, waterrights, or any stream bed for the purpose of con-
ducting and operating a dam or reservoir. For this purpose, the
County Commissioners of Allegany County were authorized by the
General Assembly of 1939 to issue bonds in the amount of one million
dollars, and to make a special tax levy to pay the principal and inter-
est of the bonds. These bonds were issued in 1940 and the construc-
tion of a Dam on the Savage River was begun with the assistance of
the Public Works Administration and the Potomac River Board.
The dam is still under construction. The special tax levy authorized
has been held in abeyance until the completion of the project (Acts
1935, Ch. 409; Acts 1936, Ch. 6; Acts 1939, Ch. 143; Acts 1947,
Ch.165).

Expenditures, 1949, .....................................$400,000

Appropriations, 1950: U. S. Army Engineers' Funds
Staff: None

INTERSTATE COOPERATION

MARYLAND COOPERATION COMMISSION

Honorary Members:

William Preston Lane, Jr., Governor

Joseph R. Bymes, President of the Senate

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Speaker of the House of Delegates.

Governor's Committee:

Chairman: Vivian V. Simpson, Secretary of State

Hall Hammond, Attorney General

James G. Rennie, Director, Department of Budget and

Procurement
John B. Funk, Acting Chairman, Maryland State Planning

Commission.

Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Cooperation:

Chairman: L. Harold Sothoron

Wilmer C. Carter, Vice Chairman; Stanford Hoff, David
Kenneth McLaughlin, Wallace H. White.

House Committee on Intergovernmental Cooperation;

Chairman: Albert L. Sklar

Charles M. Bandiere, Vice Chairman

Harry I. Warren, Charles M. See, J. Rush Baldwin.

The Maryland Cooperation Commission consists of three separate
and distinct Committees, which collectively act as the Commission; in
addition there are three honorary, ex-officio, non-voting members.
The honorary members are the Governor, the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. The three Committees
are (1) The Governor's Committee, which consists of three ex-officio
members, the Attorney General, the Director of the Department .of