BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

405 Union Trust Building, Baltimore.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.

Governor Albert C. Ritchie.......................Baltimore ......................................1924

Frank A. Furst....................................Baltimore .....................................1924
John D. Worthington.......................... .....Bel Air.. ........................

Philip Briscoe.......................................Mutual .............................................1924
Henry Castelberg..............................Baltimore ....................................1926
Robert Biggs............................................Baltimore ......................................1926
Samuel E. Shannahan.....................Easton ........................................... 1926

Secretary, William J. Ogden.

Governor appoints six members of the Board, of State Aid and
Charities, three for two years and three for four years, and as these
terms expire successors are appointed for the full term of four years.
The Governor is a member of the Board. Two of the Board may be
women. (Ch. 705, Acts 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
each Legislature a report showing the condition that it finds at each
of the institutions so applying, together with recommendations con..
cerning them. It is the official representative of the State in regard to
charitable matters and has the administration of the laws regarding the
placement of children in this State by out-of-State agencies, and the
supervision of the law prohibiting the separation of babies from their
mothers during the first six months after birth. ( Ch. 42, Acts of 1908;
and 210, Acts of 1916.)

The Secretary is charged with the duty of informing himself fully
as to the conditions of the institutions coming under the supervision
Ox 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.

BUREAU OF MINES.

Chief Engineer:
John J. Rutledge........................................................Frostburg

The Bureau of Mines was created in the State Board of Labor and
Statistics by the General Assembly of 1922. The Chief Mine Engineer
is appointed by the Governor from a list of eligibles prepared by the
State Employment Commissioner. The Act becomes effective October
1,1922.

The Act was prepared by a special commission appointed by the
Governor and supersedes the several local laws which governed .mining
operations in this State prior to the enactment of this law.

The Act makes provision for the inspection, sanitation, ventilation
and safeguarding of all the operations connected with mining. Pro-
vision is also made for the weighing of all coal mined in the State.

it is the duty of the Chief Mine Engineer to enforce all provisions
of the Act. He is also given the authority to make and enforce neces-
sary rules and regulations in connection with the enforcement of the
Act and the operation of the mines. (Ch. 307, 1922.)