Board hears appeals from the decisions of the licensing authorities
in Anne Arundel County (except Annapolis), Dorchester, Wicomico
and Worcester Counties. For the counties of Anne Arundel, Dor-
chester and Wicomico, the decision of the Board is final; but in the
remaining three counties appeals may be taken to the Circuit Court
(Art. 2B, secs. 149, 151). The Board meets within the time prescribed
by law after the filing of an appeal, request or complaint at the
County Seat of the county in which the action originated. The appro-
priation for the expenses of the Board is included in the budget of
Alcoholic Beverages Division, Comptroller of the Treasury.

Staff: 3.

BOARD OF REVENUE ESTIMATES
BUREAU OF REVENUE ESTIMATES

J. Millard Tawes, Comptroller of the Treasury
Hooper S. Miles, State Treasurer

James G. Rennie, Director, Department of Budget and
Procurement

W. Irvin Young, Chief, Bureau of Revenue Estimates
State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 2631

The Board of Revenue Estimates and the Bureau of Revenue Esti-
mates were created in 1945. The Board is composed of the Comp-
troller of the Treasury, the State Treasurer and the Director of
Budget and Procurement. It is the duty of the Board to study the
findings and recommendations of the Bureau and upon the basis of
such study send to the Governor, for submission to the General As-
sembly, an itemized statement of anticipated revenues for the suc-
ceeding fiscal year, together with such other recommendations as
the Board may deem necessary. It is the duty of the Bureau to
study and analyze all sources of revenue, to prepare for the Board
the facts and findings for its itemized statement, to make and devise
more equitable and economical means of collection of such revenue,
and to devise and recommend new sources of revenue (Code 1947
Supp., Art. 41, sec. 134A).

Expenditures, 1950, included in Comptroller's funds.
Appropriation, 1951 .. $9,414.00
Staff: 2.

STATE TREASURER

Hooper S. Miles, Treasurer, 1955
Charles M. Speicher, Chief Deputy
J. Hugh Taylor, Deputy

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 3117
Mathieson Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Saratoga 5166

Under the Constitution of 1776, there were two State Treasurers—
the Treasurer of the Eastern Shore and the Treasurer of the West-