This institution receives colored female minors under the age of
eighteen years, as shall be taken up and committed as street beggars
or vagrants, or shall be convicted of criminal offenses against the laws
of the State and has power to bind out these girls committed to their
care as apprentices until they reach the age of eighteen years, whether
in or out of this State, and. to teach them such proper trades or em-
ployments as in the judgment of the managers will be most conducive
to their reformation.

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 in 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.

BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS OF WASHINGTON

COLLEGE.

Name. Term Expires. Address.
Dr. Joseph K. Shriver..............................1929 .........................................................Cambridge
Dr. Mary C. Buchinal.................................1929 ..............................Chester Heights, Pa.
E. Benson Dennis...........................................1929 ............................................................ Crisfield
Benjamin A. Johnson.................................1929 ...................................................... Salisbury
Lambert W. Davis.........................................1931 ............................................................Cecilton
Edward M. Nob]e..........................................1931 ......................... ....................................Denton
Clarence Hodson.............................................1931 .........................................................New York
Charles B. Humphries..............................1931 .............................................................Easton
S. Scott Beck..................................................1927 ...................................................Chestertown
Thomas J. Keating.....................................l927 ...................................................... Centreville
James W. Chapman, Jr....... ................1927 ........................................................Baltimore
Orlando Harrison...........................................1927 ..................................................................Berlin

This Board consists of twenty-five members. Twelve are appointed
by the alumni of the college, twelve by the Governor, without Senate
confirmation, and these thus appointed appoint annually a President
of the College, who, by virtue of his office, is the twenty-fifth member
of the Board.

In making the first appointments the Governor appoints as follows:
Four for two years, four for four years and four for six years from
June 1, 1922. In each of these groups three shall be residents of
Eastern Shore counties and one from elsewhere. At the expiration of
the above terms the Governor appoints a successor for the full term
of six years from June 1st. (Ch. 121, 1922.)*

* Due to Constitutional Amendment of 1922, appointments made in 1924 are
for a term of five years.