County. Name. Address
Talbot H. Leonard Collins (D) Fairbanks
A. Bowie Highley (D) Trappe
John S. McDaniel (D) Easton

Washington W. Scott Corbett (R) Clearspring
Clarence E. Fahrney (R) Boonsboro
Vernon N. Simmons (R) Hagerstown
Charles W. Wolf (R) Hagerstown
E. Russell Hicks (R) deal-spring

Wicomico Nathaniel C. Austin (D) Mardela Springs

Lloyd L. Larmore (D) Tyaskili
Hooper S. Miles (D) Salisbury

Worcester Samuel J. Crockett (D) Pocomoke City

Harry E. Palmer (D) Berlin
Orlando M. Shockley (P) Showell

House: Democrats, 56; Republicans 46; Majority, 10 Democrats.

Joint Ballot, Democrats, 71; Republicans, 58; Majority, 13 Demo-
crats.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md..

Name. Term Expires. Postoffice.
William Milnes Maloy Chairman....1922 .................. .Baltimore
Ezra B. Whitman. ............... 1924 .................. .Baltimore
J. Frank Harper ...................... 1926.................. Centreville
W. Cabell Bruce, Counsel............................... .Baltimore
Benj, T. Fendall, Secretary, Munsey Building. ........... .Baltimore

Governor appoints three, one of whom he designates Chairman;
one for two, one for four, and one for six years; and, as these terms
expire, the successor is appointed for a term of six years. (Ch. 180,
1910.)

This Board has the supervision of railroads, steam and electric,
common carriers in general, gas corporations, electrical corporations,
telephone companies, telegraph companies, water companies steam
heating and refrigerating companies, express companies, sleeping car
companies, steamship, steamboat, motorboat and sailing boat com-
panies and automobile bus companies doing business as common car-
riers, provided any of the aforementioned companies are doing busi-
neag within the Sta.te of Maryland. Its supervision and jurisdiction
covers the service furnished, the rates charged, capitalization, issue of
stocks and bonds, the right to exercise franchises granted by the
counties or by the cities, the right to fix rates for service, fix stand-
ards for service and general supervisory and regulatory powers.

In the matter of permitting the companies to exercise franchises
and to issue securities, they are required in all cases to advertise the
fact that the Commission will hear their application upon a certain
date. This done in order that any person, or persons, opposed to the
exercise of the franchise or the issuance of securities may have an
opportunity to be heard and submit to the Commission their reason
for believing that the Commission should withhold the order permit-
ting the things to be done under the application filed.