MARYLAND MANUAL. 13
County. Name Address.
Talbot Robert S. Harrison (D) Sherwood
Charles A. Coulby (D) Easton
A. Bowdle Highley (D) Trappe
Washington J. Kieffer Funk (D) Hagerstown
R. J. Funkhouser (D) Hagerstown
Joseph W. Wolfinger (R) Smithsburg
W. Scott Corbett (R) Clearspring
Charles W. Wolf (R) Hagerstown
Stover E. Krepa (R) Hagerstown
Wicomico Jehu D. Dolbey (D) White Haven
L. Thomas Parker (D) Salisbury
Henry White Roberts (D) Nanticoke
Rex A. Taylor (D) Salisbury
Worcester George L. Barnes, Jr. (D) Girdletree
Horace E, Davis (D) Berlin
Samuel M. Crockett (D) Pocomoke City
House.Democrats, 73; Republicans, 33; majority, 40 Democrats.
Joint Ballot-.Democrats, 94; Republicans, 39; majority, 55 Demo-
crats.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md.
William Milnes Maloy, Chairman......l928.......................................................Baltimore
Ezra B. Whitman............................................1924......................................................Baltimore
J. Frank Harper................................................l926....................................................Centrevllle
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-
ness within the State 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
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