BOARD OF BOILER RULES.
This Board for 1936-37 consists of:
Chairman:
A. Stengle Marine, Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, 330

North Charles Street, Baltimore.
Members:
William F. Broening, Chairman of the State Industrial Accident

Commission, 741 Equitable Building, Baltimore.
Herbert R. O'Conor, Attorney-General, Baltimore Trust Building,

Baltimore.

By the Act of 1920, Chapter 676, a Board of Boiler Rules was
created consisting of the Commissioner of the State Bureau of Labor
and Statistics, who shall be Chairman; the Attorney-General and the
Chairman of the State Industrial Accident Commission.

This Board is created for and charged with the duty of formulating
rules and .. regulations governing the proper construction and installa-
tion of boilers of over fifteen pounds to the square inch, for sale or use
in this State, and to enforce such rules and regulations and the con-
tinued maintenance of them on a basis of proper safety.

INSPECTIONS.

For data concerning inspections address Commissions of Labor and
Statistics.

BUREAU OF MINES.
Chief Mine Engineer:

John J. Rutledge.................................... 22 Light Street, Baltimore
District Mine Inspectors:

Frank T. Powers ............ ..... Frostburg
Clyde J. Rowe.......................... ............ ..... .. ....... ...... ... ... Westernport
Stenographer and Clerk:

Miss Julia E. Jefferson. . ....... .......22 Light Street, Baltimore
Junior Clerk:

M. Agnes Probst . 22 Light Street, Baltimore
The Bureau of Mines was created in the State Board of Labor and
Statistics by the General Assembly of 1922. The Chief Mine Engineer
was appointed by the Governor from a list of eligibles prepared by
the State Employment Commissioner. The Act became effective Octo-
ber 1,1922.

The Act was prepared by a special commission appointed by the
Governor and supersedes the several local laws which governed min-
ing operations in this State prior to the enactment of this law.

The Act makes provision for the inspection, sanitation, ventilation
and safeguarding of all the operations connected with mining. Pro-
vision is also made for the weighing of all coal mined in the State.
It is the duty of the Chief Mine Engineer to enforce all provisions
of the Act. He is given the authority to make and enforce necessary
rules and regulations in connection with the enforcement of the Act
and the operation of the mines. After hearings had been held in Frost-
burg and Westernport between the Chief Mine Engineer and opera-
tors and miners, such regulations were issued and became effective
March 13, 1929, and have been in force since that date. (Ch. 307, 1922.)
There was created by this Act in the Bureau of Mines a State
Mine Examining Board with powers to examine and pass upon the
qualifications of applicants for certificates of competency as mine
foremen, assistant mine foremen, and fire bosses. Sixteen examina-