*BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE COMMISSION

This Commission is created by Chapter 345 of, the Acts of 1922. The?
Act provides that the Governor shall appoint three citizens who were
former soldiers, sailors or marines from Maryland and who served a
France during the recent war against Germany and her Allies, who
shall serve without pay but be allowed actual and necessary expenses.

It is the duty of the Commission to visit the battlefields of France
and ascertain the points where Maryland troops were engaged and
designate the points where monuments and markers shall be erected.
It shall also determine the character and design of such monuments and
markers and perform all necessary work in erecting these memorials..

The Commission shall report to the Governor, on the completion of
its work, a detailed statement of its proceedings, including a state-
ment as to the locations and cost of such monuments and markers.

*This Commission had not been appointed when this volume went to
press.

CROWNSVILLE STATE HOSPITAL (FOR NEGROES).
Crownsville, Maryland.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Harry J. Hopkins...................Annapolis ..............................1928
Dr. Walton H. Hopkins.......................Annapolis...................................1924
Wlliam P. Gundry...................Baltimore County ............................1924
William L. Marbury............................Baltimore City .....................1928
John T. Daily........................Baltimore City ...................1926
Superintendent Dr. Robert P. Winterode.

Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints six, two bi-ennially
for a term of six years from the first day in May. Governor,
Comptroller and Treasurer are ex-officio members of this Board. (Ch.
250, 1910.)

For admission of city patients applications should be made through
Mr. Nathaniel G. Grasty, Secretary, Supervisors of City Charities,
Court House, Baltimore, Md.

For admission of county patients application should be made
through the County Commissioners of the county in which, patient is
a resident and on the certificates of two registered physicians' who have
practiced five years or more.

State appropriation, $100.00 per patient each year.
The Board of Managers have absolute control of the hospital and
its management, the acquisition of all property, construction of new
building, the care and treatment of patients, as pertains to matters
of both executive and medical characters.