DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE.

City Hall, Baltimore.

Executive Officer, Horace E. Flack, Baltimore.

The function of the Department of Legislative Reference is to col-
lect, compile and index information on all questions of proposed legis-
lation, to investigate and report upon the laws .of Maryland and other
States at the request of the Governor, any committee or member of the
General 'Assembly, or the head of any State Department. It is also
made the duty of the Department to prepare or aid in the preparation
of any bill or resolution on the request of any member of the Legis-
lature, and to maintain an office at Annapolis during the sessions of
the Legislature. There is on file in the Department a complete set of
all bills which have been introduced in the Legislature of Maryland
from 1908 to 1922, inclusive, with a full index of same and the Code
and Laws of the other States. (Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1916.)

STATE LUNACY COMMISSION.
Baltimore, Md.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Dr. Henry J. Berkley...............................Baltimore ..............................1923
Dr. J. Albert Chatard.................. Baltimore ....................................1924
Dr. Hugh H. foung.....................Baltimore ..........................1925
Dr. George H. Hocking.............................Govans ....................................1926
Secretary.......330 N. Charles St., Baltimore.

The Commission consists of the Attorney....General and four mem-
bers appointed by the Governor; one annually for a term of four years
from the first Monday in May. Three of those appointed shall be resi-
dents of Baltimore City, two of whom shall be physicians. (Bagby....
Code, Art 59, Sees. 13, 14, 15.)

The State Lunacy Commission has supervision over all institutions,
public, corporate or private, in which insane persons are detained.
The Secretary of the Commission, or one member thereof, is required
at least once every six months to visit all institutions in the State,
including almshouses, jails, etc., where the insane are .kept. This
Commission makes an annual report to the Governor in the month of
December.

BOARD OF MANAGERS OF SPRINGFIELD STATE HOSPITAL
FOR THE INSANE.
Sykesville, Md.

Ex-Officio Members:

Governor Albert C. Ritchie......................................Baltimore
Comptroller Wm. S. .Gordy, Jr....................................Salisbury
Treasurer John M. Dennis......................................Riderwood