The Board is empowered to issue annual licenses to Institutions,
Associations, Agencies and Individuals having the care, custody and
control of children with certain exceptions. It also is empowered to
revoke same.

Under Chapter 686, Acts of 1936, the Board of State Aid and
Charities is declared to be the central, co-ordinating and directing
agency of welfare activities in the State, with authority to create in
each county a County Welfare Board, constituting an administrative
department of the local government. Such boards have authority to
administer public assistance and relief to families and individuals in
need, including- the administering of relief under the Mothers' Assist-
ance Law, the administering of Old Age Pension relief, the administer-
ing of relief to the blind, handicapped and needy, the care of neglected,
dependent and delinquent children. Each County Board consists of
seven members, one of whom shall be a County Commissioner, and
serves for three years The local board of each county and the Depart-
ment of Welfare of Baltimore City are charged with the administer-
ing of Old Age Pensions. The Old Age Pension Law (Chapter 592,
Acts of 1935 as amended by Chapter 149, Acts of 1936, provides for
a State-wide system of old age pensions by the local boards and the
Department of Public Welfare of Baltimore City, under the general
supervision of the Board of State Aid and Charities.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
327 St. Paul Place
Baltimore, Maryland

Thomas J. S. Waxter Director . - 327 St. Paul Place
Advisory Committee
Howard W. Jackson, Mayor .- -. City Hall
Dr. Winford H. Smith, Chairman Johns Hopkins Hospital, City
Dr. Huntington Williams, Ex-Officio - - - .Municipal Bldg., City
William L. Galvin. . 815 Mercantile Trust Bidg.
L. Edwin Goldman . - . First Nat'1 Bank Building
Mrs. Arthur Pacy - - 1606 Johnson Street, City
Dr. H. S. McCard . - - 2029 Druid Hill Avenue
Dr. Esther L. Richards - - - . Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. George Walker - - 1 E. Centre Street

ALLEGANY COUNTY WELFARE BOARD

37 Washington Street
Cumberland, Md.

Term of

Members Address Service
A. Charles Stewart, Chair-
man and Co. Commissioner i W. Union St., Frostburg,
Md. . I yr..to be
elected each
year there-
after.

Mrs. A. M. Lichtenstein - 12 N. Allegany St. - I yr.
Joseph L. Mansfield - Westernport, Md. - 3 yrs.
William A. Miller - 345 Bedford St., Cumber-
land, Md. . - - 2 yrs.
Rev. Walter Twigg -.Flintstone, Md. - I yr.
Harvey H. Weiss - Memorial Hospital, Cumberland,

Md. - - 2 yrs.

Webster K. Edwards . 817 Hill Top Drive, Cum-
berland, Md. - 3 yrs.