BOARD OF SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS.
(Abolished by Act creating the Conservation Commission.)

BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Carville D. Benson.............. Halethorpe ................ 1918
Henry Castleberg. ............. .Baltimore ................ .1918
Robert Biggs................... Baltimore ................. 1918
Frank A. Furst................. Baltimore ... ............. 1920
John D. Worthington............ Belair .................... 1920
Philip Briscoe. ................ .Mutual ................... .1920

Governor appoints six, three for two years and three for four years
and as these terms expire a successor is appointed for a full term of four
years.

Two of the Board may be women and not more than three shall be
residents of any one city or county. (Ch. 705, 1916.)

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.)

The Secretary is charged with the duty of informing himself fully as
to the conditions of the institutions coming under the supervision of
the Board and he is, during the session of the Legislature, subject to the
orders of the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways and Means
Committee of the House of Delegates.