This Commission was established under the law above referred to,
with power to give advice and counsel to all public libraries, and pub-
lic school libraries, in the State, and to all persons proposing to es-
tablish them, as to the best means to their establishment and main-
tenance, the selection of books, cataloguing, and other details of man-
agement; and also to organize and conduct traveling libraries through-
out the State.

MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF MOTION PICTURE CENSORS.
211 North Calvert Street, Baltimore.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Chairman:

George Heller, M. D......................Baltimore ..............................................1923
Vice....Chairman:

Charles F. Macklin................................Ilchester ....................................1924
Secretary:

Marie W. Presstman .. .... Baltimore ..... 1926

The Board consists of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary,
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of three years. The first appointments are made for terms of one, two
and three years, and as these terms expire a successor is appointed for
a full term of three years. (Ch. 390, 1922.)

The duties of the Board are to examine all films, reels or views to
be exhibited or used in the State of Maryland; to approve such as are
moral and proper, and to condemn or eliminate those which, in the
judgment of the Board, tend to debase or corrupt morals; or incite to
crime.

The Board receives in advance a fee of $2,00 per reel, for each reel
of 1,000 feet or less, submitted for examination, and $1.00 per reel for
each duplicate if submitted at the same time. Upon completion of the
examination the Board issues a certificate stating the result of the
examination and furnishes an official approval seal, record of which is
kept by the Board. The Board examined a total of 5,335 films during
the past fiscal year. Of this number 4,086 subjects were approved, 57
rejected and 1,192 passed with eliminations.

Persons submitting films to the Board for examination, if dis-
satisfied with the result of the first examination, may, upon appeal,
submit the same film to the Board for re-examination, and finally to
the City Court of Baltimore.

Any person failing to display the approval seal of the Board may
be fined from $5.00 to $10.00, or in defult of payment shall be sentenced
to imprisonment from two to five days.

The law under which the Board was operating was found to be in-
adequate. A bill, therefore, was introduced and passed by Act of the
Legislature of 1922, Chapter 390, which repealed and re....enacted each
and every section of the original Acts of 1916, 1918 and 1920, with
amendments and changes, conferring additional powers upon the Board
and providing increased penalties for violations of the Act.

The provisions of the Act do not apply to any non....commercial ex-
hibition of films by religious, charitable or fraternal organizations, or
by any library, school or museum, for purely religious, charitable, fra-