The Merit System Law provides that the Commissioner shall classify
positions in the classified service, pass upon the qualifications of appli-
cants, and certify eligibles when vacancies are to be filled, recommend
minimum and maximum salary ranges with intermediate salary rates
for each class of position, pass upon transfers, promotions, reinstate-
ments, leaves of absence, ana other actions affecting the status of clas-
sified employees, provide for the removal of employees and hold hear-
ings when charges are filed by an appointing authority or a citizen,
prescribe the standards of performance and the form and scope of the
personnel records that appointing authorities keep, and investigate the
efficiency of employees in the classified service, and make recommen-
dations tor increased efficiency and economy. The Commissioner is
also required to check payrolls in advance of the payment of salaries
to employees in the classified service, and certify to the legality of
the employment of such employees.

During the second year the Commission, conducted 95 different ex-
aminations covering 67 different classes of positions. Eligible lists were
established resulting from these examinations, from which appointments
were made to vacancies in the various departments. A total number of
1,573 persons participated in the examinations. Three hundred and
seventy-five appointments were made from eligible lists resulting from
examinations.

Forty-six cases came betore the Commission for a hearing in the
matter of suspension from the State service or removal of names im-
properly included on the employment lists. The charges in each case
were sustained.

The Second Annual Report, giving in detail the activities of the
Commission for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1922, was issued
on January 1, 1923, in accordance with the provisions of the Merit
System Law.

By Act of the General Assembly, Session of 1922, Part XVI, Chap-
ter 29, there was established the Department of State Employment and
Registration, to be composed of the State Employment Commission and
the various examining and licensing boards of the State, with such ad-
ditional boards as may hereafter be provided for, the head of this de-
partment to be the State Employment Commissioner, and to be known
as the Commissioner of State Employment and Registration.

STATE BOARD OF BARBER EXAMINERS.
Royal Arcanum Building, West Saratoga Street, Baltimore.
(Terms Expire 1924.)

Name. Postoffice.

Louis Reuling, Chairman.....................................................................................Baltimore
George W, Sanders, Secretary................................. .Baltimore
J. Granville Lilly, Treasurer..................................................................................Baltimore

Governor appoints three for two years from appointment, one master
barber and two journeyman barbers. (Ch. 226, 1904.)

The duties of the Barber Examiners are to examine and license all
barbers who have come into the State and all apprentices who have
served their three-year term since May 1, 1904, and to see that the
barber shops that have started in business since the above date should
be run according to sanitary rules as laid down by the Board and ap-
proved by the Board of Health. Board meetings on Mondays from
2 to 5 P.M.