MARYLAND MANUAL 85

Name Washington Mountain Port Tonolway Fort Frederick Gambrill Gathland Patapsco Wye Oak Elk Neck Sandy Point

STATE PARKS County Washington . Washington Washington Frederick Frederick Howard Talbot Cecil Anne Arundel

Area 96 20 279 1,088 101 1,088 1.6 995 750

 

Expenditures 1949 General Funds .................................$303,019.87 Special Funds Forest Reserve ...........--- 4,671.43 Roadside Tree Fund........... 114,869.87 Federal State Co-op-land-.- 4,165.50 Reforestration ........................ 50,747.07 Federal Grants .............................. 90,518.54(1) Total-..--------..$567,982.28

Appropriations 1950 $833,860.00 52,735.00 103,730.00 11,442.00 105,000.00 94,423.00(2) $701,190.00

(1) Federal funds are granted under the dark- McNary
Act and may be used for fire protection only.

(2) Tentative allotment.
Staff: 101.

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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, MINES AND
WATER RESOURCES

The Commission:

Chairman: Arthur B. Stewart, 1952

Mervin A. Pentz, 1953; Joseph C. Lore, Jr., 1954; Harry
R. Hall, 1950; Holmes D. Baker, 1951.

Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Director
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 0771

The Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources was estab-
lished in 1941, superseding the State Geological and Economic Survey
Advisory Commission, the Bureau of Mines, the Water Front Commis-
sion, and the Water Resources Commission. The Department is under
the direction of a Commission of five members appointed by the Gov-
ernor for terms of five years. The term of one member expires each
year. The Commission selects its own Chairman and appoints the
Director of the Department. Those functions of the Department deal-
ing with geology and water resources are under the immediate super-
vision of the Director; the supervision of the mining industry is
charged to the Bureau of Mines.

The Department has supervision of topographic, geologic, hydro-
graphic, and magnetic surveys. It prepares topographic, geologic and