ations have been held at Frostburg, Maryland. The personnel of the
Mine Examining Board is as follows:

B. H. McCrackin, Frostburg, Md., representing Maryland Coal
Operators.

Vacancy. ......................................... .representing Maryland Coal
Miners.

John J. Rutledge, Chairman Ex-officio; representing State of Mary-
land.

The Department of State
Employment and Registration

22 Light Street, Baltimore
Commissioner:

Colonel Harry C. Jones (Term expires 1943) ........ .Baltimore
Chief Examiner:

Margaret Dambly Frank. ................................. .Baltimore
Secretary:

Lillian A. Hoshall............................................ Baltimore
Chief Clerk:

Ruth Engel Hubbard.................................................. Baltimore
Medical Director:

Paul E. Carliner, M.D................................. Baltimore

The Governor appoints one State Employment Commissioner for
a term of six years. All members of the staff of the Commissioner
and employees of the Department are in the Classified Service.

The Merit System Law of Maryland (Article 64-A, page 2160,
Annotated Code of Maryland—Bagby) creating the State Employ-
ment Commissioner was passed in 1920. The basic Law has not been
amended in any material manner since its passage. The statute
provides that "The State Employment Commissioner" prepare and
publish Rules and Regulations for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of the Act, which, when approved by the Governor, shall
have the force of law. The Rules, like the Law itself, have shown
but few and unimportant-amendments. The Law is efficient, work-
able and its stability has enabled its provisions to be well known and
understood by all State employees. The Rules of the Commissioner
are practical, and are intended to safe-guard, not only the employee,
but the taxpayer. The Merit System, as applied to the State service,
functions, not only as a technically professional exemplification of
modern practice in public employment, but as a procurement agency
charged with the duty of supplying State departments and institu-
tions with the most competent personnel procurable at the compen-
sation provided by the State in the Budget.

A material advance was made by the Legislature of 1937, which
approved the establishment of a "Medical Division" in the Department
of State Employment and Registration, a facility that the Depart-
ment has long needed. It also enacted a statute, which established
a system providing for retirement, with compensation, of aged and
disabled State employees.

The General Assembly of 1939 added strength to the Merit System
by the enactment of legislation providing for Standardization of