Sources consulted:

Maryland State Archives:

Comptroller's Annual Reports for 1943 and 1951–nothing found.

Biographical files for the delegates who introduced the bills, respectively:

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Biographical Series) MSA SC 3520-1724, Milton Tolle, 2/11/11/22–nothing found.

No paper file exists for John F. McNulty, MSA SC 3520-13643.

Governors' addresses to the legislature for 1943 and 1951 in the prefaces to the Proceedings of the House of Delegates for those years and did not find any references to the alcoholic beverages issues mentioned.

Proceedings of the House of Delegates and the Senate for 1943 and 1951–bills read and passed with no unusual delays or debates noted.

Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR (General File) MSA S1041 1942-1944, 1949-1950 and 1951-1952. I checked those years under "A" for alcohol, "L" for liquor, and "C" for comptroller.

State Papers and Addresses of Governor O'Conor (REF A-3-5). We have these through December, 1942. The volume for 1942 included campaign speeches. Although the fall 1942 campaign brochure that I found in GOVERNOR (General File) outlines O'Conor's pledge to review Maryland's Alcoholic Beverage Laws and to appoint a committee to review the laws, the campaign speeches themselves do not mention the issue.

Topic Files-- no listings under "Alcoholic Beverages" or "Liquor."

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TAX DIVISION (Annual Report) 1940-1969, 2/3/9/10.

Reports photocopied:

State of Maryland 1943 Report of Alcoholic Beverages Tax Division Comptroller of the Treasury State of Maryland 1951 Report of Alcoholic Beverages Tax Division Comptroller of the Treasury

EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES, TASK FORCES, AND ADVISORY BOARDS (Reports) 1950, 2/3/6/33.

Report photocopied:

Interim Report of the Maryland Tax Survey Commission of 1949: Report on Tax Administration and Procedure and Alcoholic Beverages Taxes (includes recommendations to the General Assembly).

Secondary sources:

Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament 1634-1980. Baltimore: The Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1980. Mentions prohibition but nothing on the 1943 and 1951

legislation.

Callcott, George H. Maryland and America 1940 to 1980. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins

University, 1985. Nothing found

Kirwin, Harry A. The Inevitable Success: Herbert R. O'Conor. Westminster, Md.: The

Newman Press, 1962. No mention of 1943 law or the formation of the Alcoholic

Beverage Survey Commission

MHS War Records Division, Maryland in World War II. Baltimore: The Maryland Historical

Society, 1950-56. Nothing found.

Walsh, Richard and William Lloyd Fox, eds. Maryland: A History. Annapolis: The Hall of

Records Commission, Annapolis, 1983.

White, Frank F., Jr., The Governors of Maryland 1777-1970. Annapolis: The Hall of Records

Commission, 1970. Nothing found.