1930. Special Session of the General Assembly to change existing regis-
tration days in Baltimore City. The same conflicted with
certain sacred Jewish Holidays, on which the Jews could not
register without violating the tenets of their faith, and the
changes were made in order to enable them to register and
to vote.

1931. Legislation enacted relating to old age pensions, mothers' pen-
sions, abolishing informers' fees, prohibiting the taking of
fish by purse nets, financial responsibility of motorists,
licensing and regulating billboards along public highways,
uniform aeronautics legislation, juvenile courts, training
school for colored girls, and taxicabs, Road Laws entirely
revised,

1933. Legislation enacted relating to the emergency banking situation,
and amending banking laws generally, State Convention to
pass upon proposed repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,
crop liens, chain stores, legalizing and licensing sale of beer
as authorized by Federal Act, $12,000,000 loan for unemploy-
ment relief in Baltimore City, economies and reduction in
State Budget to enable a reduction in local taxes and a re-
duction of the State tax rate from 25c to 22c for 1934 and
1935, being the lowest State tax rate since 1911. At special
election Maryland voted for repeal by nearly 160,000
majority.

BARONS OF BALTIMORE AND LORDS PROPRIETARY OF
MARYLAND

GEORGE CALVERT, First Lord Baltimore.

Lords Proprietary.

WM.Caecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore.
167..Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore.
1715.Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore.
1715.Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore.
1751.Frederick Calvert, Sixth and Last Lord Baltimore.
1771 to 1776.Henry Harford, Last Proprietary.

A LIST OF THOSE WHO GOVERNED MARYLAND BEFORE 1776

COMPILED BY BERNARD C. STEINER,
of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

1. William Claiborne, under a trading commission dated May 16,
1631, (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 20), settled at Kent Island August
17, 1631 (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 32), and governed it under the
authority of Virginia.

2. Leonard Calvert commissioned by his brother, Caecilius Calvert,
second Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietary of Maryland,
.1633; given instructions as "Deputy Governor" November
13, 1633 (Calvert Papers, i. 131); arrived in Maryland with
colonists March 25, 1634; recommissioned April 15, 1637 (3 Md.
Arch. Coun. 49), as "Lieutenant General, Admiral, Chief Cap-
tain and Commander," September 4,1642 (3 Md. Arch. Coun.
109), and September 6, 1664 (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 152); deposed
in February, 1645. During absences from the Province he left