Commission was passed in 1920. It embodies advanced principles of
personnel legislation which have made possible the inauguration in
Maryland of a progressive personnel program based upon the most
favorably accepted practices in both the public and the private fields
of employment.

There is no provision in the Law for exempt, non-competitive, or
labor groups of employees in the classified service in recognition of the
fact that all positions which may properly be placed in the classified
service may be handled on the competitive basis. The classified posi-
tions range from those held by the lowest paid employees in the in-
stitutions to those held by the bureau and division chiefs of the various
departments.

By Act of the General Assembly, Session of 1922, Part XVI Chap-
ter 29, there was established the Department of State Employment and
Registration, to be composed of the State Employment Commissioner
and the various examining and licensing boards of the State, with such
additional boards as may hereafter be provided for, the head of this
department to be the State Employment Commissioner, and to be
known as the Commissioner of State Employment and Registration.

The chief duties devolving upon the Commissioner are the classify-
ing and preparing of specifications for all positions in the classified
service; the listing, by appropriate tests, of qualified eligibles for
appointment to vacancies which occur or are created; the regulation
of such personnel matters as, salary adjustments, transfers, promo-
tions, reinstatements, leaves of absence, and lay-offs; the establish-
ment of procedure to assure tenure of service to those performing
meritorious service; and the providing of ways and means for the
prompt removal from the service of those who have become indolent,
incompetent, inefficient, or otherwise unfit to remain therein. The
Commissioner is also required to check payrolls in advance of the pay-
ment of salaries to employees in the classified service and to certify to
the legality of the appointment of such employees.

The Merit System Law of Maryland is workable, efficient and must
be carried out to the letter under the present administration, as pub-
licly announced by Governor Nice.

The Fifteenth Annual Report, giving in detail the activities of
the Commissioner for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1935, is
available for distribution upon application to the office of the Com-
missioner.

STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND REGISTRATION

OF ARCHITECTS.
(Chapter 309, Acts of 1935.)

Name. Address. Term Expires.
Clyde N. Friz, Chairman, 2010 Lexington Bldg., Baltimore........ July 1, 1941
Howard M. Mottu, 2127 N. Charles St., Baltimore............July 1, 1937
Amos J. Klinkhart, Hagerstown............................. July 1, 1938
James R. Edmunds, Jr., Calvert Bidg., Baltimore..............July 1,1939
G. Corner Fenhagen, 326 N. Charles St., Baltimore ............July 1, 1940

The Law creating the State Board of Examiners and Registration
of Architects is declared to be a public health, life and safety measure,
and generally to promote the public welfare by requiring that only
properly qualified persons shall use the designation "Architects" in
the State of Maryland; and provides that all such persons shall
submit to an examination or submit evidence of their qualifications
to the Board before being entitled to practice architecture in the State
of Maryland.