In Baltimore City the relief funds made available by the Federal
Government and the State loan of $12,000,000 are being administered
by the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission, appointed by Mayor
Howard W. Jackson. This commission has taken over the four private
agencies which have been administering relief so effectively for a period
of more than two years, and hereafter, although the personnel of the
city staff will be largely made up of representatives of the four private
agencies, they will definitely be designated as public agents subject to
the control of the City Commission, the Board of State Aid and Chari-
ties and the Federal Relief Administrator.

Maryland has not yet accepted the provisions of the Wagner Act,
but Mr. Oliver C. Short, State Employment Commissioner, has been
appointed Re-employment Director under the Federal Re-employment
Act, and as this Manual goes to press the necessary local committees to
administer that act are being organized in Baltimore City and in the
various counties of the State.

Maryland has also, of course, taken advantage of the emergency
conservation and reforestation work, authorized by the Federal Govern-
ment.

MARYLAND STATE DROUGHT COMMITTEE
Appointed by Governor Ritchie, August 22nd, 1930.
OFFICERS
Chairman, Waldo Newcomer
Vice-Chairman, J. W. Davis
Secretary, Dr. Thomas B. Symons

MEMBERS
Agriculture

J. W. Davis, President Farm Bureau Federation, Baltimore.
Abram G. Ensor, Master Maryland State Grange, Forest Hill, Har-
ford County.
1. W. Heaps, Secretary Maryland State Dairymen's Association,

Baltimore.

George I. Gardiner, Vice-President Maryland Tobacco Growers' As-
sociation, Baltimore.
Gustavus Ober, Jr., Fertilizer Manufacturer, Eastern representative

of National Fertilizer Association, Baltimore.
William G. Scarlett, Seed Dealer, Baltimore.
W. R. Harvey, President Maryland Stockmen's Association, Corbett,

Baltimore County.

Frank M. Shook, Secretary Tri-State Packers' Association, Easton.
Howard. I. Moss, President Baltimore Florists Club, 5315 York. Road,

Baltimore.
H. C. Whiteford, representative of Maryland Horticultural Society

on State Agricultural Society, Whiteford, Harford County.
Aaron Fell, Secretary-Treasurer, Maryland State Poultrymen's As-
sociation, Bethesda.

George S. Jackson, Western Maryland Dairy, representing Milk Dis-
tributors.

Bankers
Waldo Newcomer, President Baltimore Clearing House Association

and Chairman Executive Committee Baltimore Trust Company.
Morton Prentis, President First National Bank, Baltimore.
William J. Casey, Vice-President Maryland Trust Company, Balti-
more.