Name. Postoffice.
Assistant Clerk:

M. H. Gill. .......................................... .Elkridge
Second Assistant Clerk:

Harry C. Linstid. .................................... .Armiger
Stenographer:
Miss Anna K. Pierson................................Baltimore

The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of Maryland consists of three
members appointed for the term of two years by the Board of Public
Works. (Ch. 711, 1906.)

Under the Act creating the Board one of its members must be a
resident of an Eastern Shore tidewater county, one a resident of a West-
ern Shore tidewater county, and the third a resident of Baltimore City.
It is also provided that one of the three shall be a member of the
minority party at the time of bis appointment. The Board has full
power to select and employ its own subordinates.

The chief duty of the Board is to supervise the rental of oyster
bottoms and to make examinations and re-examinations for the purpose
of re-classifying from time to time bottoms not already under lease.

BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

Office: 514 Garrett Building, Baltimore.
(All Terms Expire 1916.)

Name. Postoffice.
President;

Philip Briscoe, M. D....................................Mutual
William Levy.........................................Baltimore
Emory L. Coblentz.................................... Frederick
Thos. M. Bartlett. ...................................... .Easton
Dr. Hiram Woods. ................................... .Baltimore
Robert Biggs.........................................Baltimore
Dr. H. Mason Knox. ................................ .Baltimore

Secretary:
Wm. H. Davenport, 514 Garrett Bldg. ................. .Baltimore

Stenographers:
lrma V. Olwine.
Lena P. Bell.

The duties of this Board are to investigate and consider the whole
system of State aid to public and private institutions. It investigates
all applications of institutions for aid from the State and submits to
the Legislature a report showing the conditions that it finds at each of
the institutions so applying, together with recommendations concerning
them. It is the official representative of the State in regard to charitable
matters. The Board is also charged with the duty of enforcing the law
regarding the importation of pauper children into the State.

Its members are seven in number, appointed by the Governor for a
term of two years from the first Monday in May, not more than four
members of any retiring Board are eligible to succeed themselves.
(Ch. 549,1904.)