THE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT

Office, 516 Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md.

Commissioner (Term Expires 1935) ;

Swepson Earle . .. Baltimore
Chief Clerk:

H. H. Johnson ........ . .. Baltimore
Assistant Chief Clerk:

C. E. Ebberts .. Arbutus
Engineer:

H. E. Collins . . Crisfield
Stenographers:

Agnes M. Lochte ............. Baltimore
M. C. Rafferty ......... Baltimore

Junior Account Clerk:

Evelyn E. Morck Baltimore
Seafood Auditor
Milton C. Greer, Jr.. . Baltimore

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
District No. I:

Robert S. Harrison . . . Sherwood, Talbot County
District No. 2:

John T. Handy ......... . Crisfield, Somerset County
District No. 3:

Herman A. Woodfield .. . Galesville, Anne Arundel County
The Governor appoints the Conservation Commissioner for a term of
four years from the first Monday in May (Ch. 29, 1922), and the mem-
bers of the Advisory Committee for a term of four years from June I
(Ch. 369, 1927).

CONSERVATION

The Conservation Department succeeded the Conservation Commis-
sion of Maryland, which was organized in 1915, when the Legislature
consolidated the various commissions and boards which dealt with the
administration of the natural resources of the State. At that time, there
were in existence the Maryland Shell Fish Commission, the State Game
Warden, the State Fishery Force and the Board of Fish Commissioners,
each of which had some integral part of the above resources under its
supervision. The Conservation Commission, when first appointed, was
composed of three members, but in 1922 it was reduced to a one-man
commission.