THE MARYLAND STATE BOARD
OF MOTION PICTURE CENSORS

211 North Calvert Street, Baltimore.
Name. Postoffice Term Expires

Chairman
George Heller, M D Baltimore 1932

Vice Chairman and Treasurer
Asa C. Sharp Knollwood 1933

Secretary
Marie W Presstman Baltimore 1931

Chief Clerk
Helen L Odom Baltimore

Senior Clerk
Mrs Mabel K. Lyman Baltimore

Inspectors

Charles Bonnett Baltimore
Mrs Martha P. Gaskins .. Baltimore
Mrs Mary H Duvall Baltimore
Sadie M Dorset Baltimore
Michael A. Coughlan .. Baltimore
Mrs. Edith B. Reed .. Baltimore

Film Examiner and Measurer
Mrs Margaret D Hasselhoff Baltimore

Moving Picture Operators

Arthur J Stewart Baltimore
George T. Sewell .. .. . .. Baltimore

Moving Picture Operator's Assistant
William Gershourtz .. Baltimore

The Board consists of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary,
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of three years (Ch 390, 1922 )

The duties of the Board are to examine all films, reels or views to
be exhibited or used in the State of Maryland, to approve such as are
inoral and proper, and to condemn or eliminate those which, in the
Judgment of the Board, tend to debase or corrupt morals, or incite to
crime

The Board receives in advance a fee of $200 for each 1,000 feet of
film, or fractional part thereof, submitted for examination, and $100
for each duplicate of 1,000 feet, or fractional part thereof, if submitted
within a year after the examination and approval of the original film
Upon completion of the examination the Board issues a certificate stat
ing the result of the examination and furnishes an official approval
seal) record of which is kept by the Board

Persons submitting films to the Board for examination, if dis-
satisfied with the result of the first examination, may, upon appeal,
submit the same film to the Board for re examination, and finally to
the City Court of Baltimore.

Any person failing to display the approval seal of the Board may
be fined from $5 00 to $10 00, or in default of payment shall be sentenced
to imprisonment from two to five days