STATE GOVERNMENT. 217

WEATHER SERVICE, STATE.

(Terms expire 1908.)

NAME. POST OFFICE.

William Bullock Clark, Director.............. Baltimore.

Chas. F. von Herrmann, Meteorologist........ Baltimore.

W. T. L. Taliaferro, Sec. and Treasurer.......College Park.

The Governor commissions a Director, designated by the President of
.Johns Hopkins University; a Meteorologist, designated by the Chief of
the U. S. Weather Bureau, and a Secretary and Treasurer, designated
by the President of the Maryland Agricultural College, for a term of
two years from the first Monday in May. (Ch. 329, 1892.)

MISCELLANEOUS COMMISSIONS.

BATTLE-FLAG.

NAME. POST OFFICE.
George W. Johnson.......................... Baltimore.

James R. Wheeler........................... Baltimore.

Spencer C. Jones............................ Montgomery County.

John R. King............................... Baltimore.

Secretary of Commission,

George W. Johnson, 224 West Fayette Street, Baltimore.
The Governor appoints four, two of whom shall be Union soldiers

and two Confederate soldiers, whose duty is to provide a suitable place
at the State Capitol for the preservation and display of the battle-flags

of the State. (Ch. 485, 1900.)

FORT FREDERICK RESTORATION.

NAME. POSTOFFICE.
Governor Edwin Warfield.................... Annapolis.

Miss Leonore Hamilton....................... Hagerstown.

Alexander Armstrong, Jr.................... Hagerstown.

Ferdinand Williams ......................... Cumberland.

Commission appointed by Joint Resolution No. 7 of the General As-

sembly of 1904, to prepare a plan of Fort Frederick and obtain an
estimate of the cost of restoring such parts as have been torn away;
to ascertain the probable cost of securing title to the property for the
State and to report to General Assembly of 1906.

PUBLIC RECORDS.
(Terms expire 1906.)

NAME. POST OFFICE.

Albert L. Richardson, Chairman.............. Baltimore.

Samuel K. Dennis........................... Worcester County.

Bernard C. Steiner.......................... Baltimore.

The Governor appoints, with the consent of the Senate, three mem-
bers of this Board for a term of two years. (Ch. 282, 1904.)

This Commission examines into the condition of the public records
of the State, and makes a report thereon to the General Assembly of 1906,
with such recommendations as they may think proper for the better
custody and preservation of the same.