58 MARYLAND MANUAL.


Senior Clerk:
Mildred Medinger Baltimore

Stenographer:
Helen A. Yestadt Baltimore

Clerk:
Winona M. Hare Baltimore

Time Governor, without Senate confirmation, appoints one State Em
ployment Commissioner for a term of six years from October 1, 1926.
The others of the staff of the Commission are in the classified service.

The State Employment Commissioner is charged with administering
the Merit system Law of the State. (Art. 64A, page 2160, Annotated
Code of Maryland—Bagby.) The law gives the Commissioner general
control of employment and personnel matters so far as the classified
service is concerned.

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-
meats, leaves of absence, anu other actions affecting the status of clas
sified employees, provide for the removal of employees and hold hear
ings when charges are flied 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, investigate the
efficiency of employees in the classified service, and make recommen
dations for 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.

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.

Under the provisions of this section of the Act, the State Board of
Electrical Examiners and Supervisors and the State Board of Examiners
of Moving Picture Machine Operators, by authority of the Board of
Public Works, have their official office at 22 Light Street at the office
of the State Employment Commission and transact their official busi
ness there.

The Fifth Annual Report, giving in detail the activities of the
Commission for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1925, was issued
on January 1, 1926, in accordance with the provisions of the Merit
System Law.