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96 MARYLAND MANUAL The Maryland Workshop for the Blind, located at 601 N. Fulton Ave., Baltimore, was founded by an Act of the Legislature of 1908, Chapter 566. It is governed by a Board of Directors, three members of which are appointed by the Governor and two by the Board of Directors of the Maryland School for the Blind. The Board elects its chairman and treasurer from its own mem- bership and is empowered to hire a secretary and other necessary employees and to fix their compensations. The Workshop shall be open for the training, labor and manufac- tures to all Blind citizens of Maryland over 18 years of age, who can give satisfactory evidence of character and of their ability to do the work required of them. It is the official commission appointed by the State for providing for the re-education of the adult blind and the relief of the needy blind of the State of Maryland. DIRECTORS OF MINERS’ HOSPITAL. Frostburg, Maryland. Name Postoffice. Term Expires John W. Hendly Frostburg 1939 Walter W. Wittig - Frostburg 1939 Dr. W. 0. McLane, Jr Frostburg 1937 B. F. McCrackin Frostburg 1937 Board consists of four members appointed by the Governor, two bi-ennially for a term of four years. Chapter 441, 1912, provides for a Board of seven directors—four to be appointed by the Governor and three to be selected by the four so appointed. The three members selected by other members of the Board are as follows: Name Postoffice. Dr. Harry Teter Frostburg Olin Gunnett Frostburg Rev. William Reese Frostburg BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE COMMISSION This Commission is created by Chapter 345 of the Acts of 1922. The Act provides that the Governor shall appoint three citizens who were former soldiers, sailors or marines from Maryland and who served in France during the recent war against Germany and her Allies, who shall serve without pay but be allowed actual and necessary expenses. It is the duty of the Commission to visit the battlefields of France and ascertain the points where Maryland troops were engaged and designate the points where monuments and markings shall be erected. It shall also determine the character and design of such monuments and markers and perform all necessary work in erecting these memo- rials. (This Commission has not been appointed.) |
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