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farm of 1,238 acres is done by the boys under a head farmer and an
assistant. The other industries in which the boys are trained are
tailoring, shoemaking, painting, laundering, baking; others are taught
to be waiters. All the clothing worn by the boys is made by them in
the tailoring department.
The boys are committed by the courts and magistrates of the State
and City of Baltimore. Those coming from Baltimore are committed
mostly by the Juvenile Court. All commitments are during minority,
but are really indeterminate, as, by an honor system, a boy may earn
his parole in one year after he enters the institution.
Chapter 366.acts 1935 authorizes the transfer by the House
of Reformation to the Board of Public Works of the State of Mary-
land^ all its property, rights, franchises, privileges and immunities
provided the State of Maryland assume all mortgage liens and en-
cumbrances against the same.
MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND.
601 N. Fulton Avenue, Baltimore.
(Term Expires 1937.)
Name. Postoffice.
Dr. A. G. Barrett, President.......................Baltimore
C. G. Hilgenberg...................................... Baltimore
John L. Beck, Sec. and Supt......................Baltimore
John F. Bledsoe.........................................Baltimore
Frederick A. Dolfield, Treasurer.................Baltimore
Wm. H. Klinefelter.....................................Baltimore
John G. Schilpp, V.-Pres. and Counsel.......Baltimore
The Maryland Workshop for the Blind, located at 601 N. Fulton
Ave., Baltimore, was founded by an Act of the Legislature of 1908,
Chapter 666.
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 all matter?
pertaining to the Adult Blind of the State.
DIRECTORS OF MINERS' HOSPITAL.
Frostburg, Maryland.
Name. Postoffice. Term Expires
JohnW.Hendley...................Frostburg............1939
Walter W. Wittig..................Frostburg...........1939
Dr. W. 0. McLane, Jr...........Frostburg........... 1937
B. H. 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
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