BOARD OF MENTAL HYGIENE.

Commissioner of Mental Hygiene •
Dr. George H. Preston, 330 N. Charles St., Baltimore.

Members of the Board:

Name. Address. Term Expire.
Dr. Henry J. Berkley Baltimore City . 1929
Dr. George H. Hocking . Baltimore City .1929
Dr. J. Albert Chatard . . Baltimore City 1931
R. Lee Slingluff.......... Baltimore City 1931
Dr. Hugh H. Young Baltimore City 1934
Mrs. Allan L Carter Baltimore City 1934

The Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints a Commis-
sioner of Mental Hygiene and six associate members of the Board. The
Commissioner is appointed upon the recommendation of the Associate
Members and for no specified term of office. The first appointments of
Associate Members under the Act are as follows 2 until the first Mon-
day in May, 1924; 2 until the first Monday in May, 192B, and 2 until
the first Monday in May, 1928. As these terms expire successors are
appointed for 6 years from the first Monday in May. ( Ch. 29, 1922. ) *
This board succeeded the State Lunacy Commission.

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

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES

BOARD OF STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

405 Union Trust Building, Baltimore.
Director of Charities and Chairman, Samuel E. Shannahan.

Name. Postoffice. Term Expires.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie Annapolis 1931
Frank A. Furst .. ... ......... Baltimore 1931
Richard F. Cleveland Baltimore 1931
James H. Gambrill, Jr. . Frederick 1931
Henry Castelberg..................... ....... ...Baltimore 1929
Robert Biggs ............. .. . .. .. Baltimore 1929
Samuel E. Shannahan ... ... . Easton 1929
Secretaiy, William J. Ogden.

Governor appoints six members of the Board of State Aid and
Charities, three for two years and three for four years, and as these
terms expire successors are appointed for the full term of four years,
The Governor is a member of the Board. Two of the Board may be
women. (Ch. 705, Acts 1916.)*

The duties of this Board are to investigate and consider the whole
system of State aid to public and private institutions. It investigates
all applications of institutions for aid from the State and submits to
each Legislature a report showing the condition that it finds at each
of the institutions so applying, together with recommendations con-
cerning them. It is the official representative of the State in regard to
charitable matters and has the administration of the laws regarding the
placement of children in this State by out-of-State agencies, and the
supervision of the law prohibiting the separation of babies from their
mothers during the first six months after birth, (Ch. 42, Acts of 1908;
and 210, Acts of 1916.)

By Chapter 632, Acts of 1927, the Board is empowered to issue
annual licenses to Institutions, Associations, Agencies and Individuals
having the care, custody and control of children with certain excep-
tions. It also is empowered to revoke same.