municipality, or when interviewing or seeking to interview
a witness or a supposed witness to such a crime;

(3) When requested to act by the chief executive officer
of the municipality in question or its chief police officer;

_ (4) When ordered by the Governor to act within the mu-
nicipality in question.

They are directed to cooperate and exchange information with any
other Department or authority with police forces, both within and
without the State and with Federal Police forces, toward the end of
achieving greater success in preventing and detecting crimes and
apprehending criminals.

The superintendent shall annually, within thirty days following the
close of the fiscal year of the Department, make a full financial and
operative report to the Governor showing the activities of the Depart-
ment.
The Act went into force and took effect after June 1, 1935.

BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Chapter 508..Acts of 1941.

Chairman:
Edwin M. Warfield, Jr., Chairman Commission of

Tidewater Fisheries. .......................... .Woodbine, Md.
E. Lee LeCompte, State Game Warden....................... Cambridge, Md.
F. W. Besley, State Forester of Md.................... Baltimore, Md.
E. Lester Muller, Chr. Md. Publicity Comm.. ........ .Baltimore, Md.

Edward B. Matthews, State Geologist, Director of
Research & Education......................... Baltimore, Md.

Dr. Isaiah Bowman............. 1947 ............. Baltimore, Md.
Edwin G. Baetjer. .............. 1.944. ............. ..Baltimore, Md.
Geo. T. Harrison. .............. .1946. ...... .Tilghmans Island, Md.
Ellsworth Leary ............... .1942. ............ ..Rock Hall, Md.
Samuel M. Bailey. ............. .1943................. Milestown, Md.
Norman E. Carr. ................ .1945. .................... ..Mayo, Md.

There is hereby created a State Agency to be known as The Board
of Natural Resources to co-ordinate the activities of the several State
departments that are concerned with the conservation of natural re-
sources. The Board shall be composed of the Chairman of the Com-
mission of Tidewater Fisheries, the State Game Warden, the State
Forester, the Director of the Department of Geology, Mines and Water
Resources, the Director of Research and Education, Chairman of the
Maryland Publicity Commission, and six other members to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, two from the tidewater counties of the
Eastern Shore, two from the tidewater counties of the Western Shore,
and two from the State at large. The four appointed from the tide-
water counties shall have no practical knowledge of tidewater fisheries
and shall have no financial interest in the fisheries industry. The
Chairman of the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries shall serve as
Chairman of the Board.

The term of office of the six appointive members of the Board shall
be six years from June 1, 1941, but of those first appointed one shall
serve for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four
years, one for five years, and one for six years.