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 practical knowledge of tidewater fisheries, but
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.

Appointive Members Term Expires

Edwin G.Baetjer....................... ......1944....... .. ......... ..Baltimore
George S. Miles....................... 1949.................... Leonardtown
Isaiah Bowman ........ . .................. ..... .1947............ ..... . ...........Baltimore
Norman E.Carr.......... . .......... ... .1945.................................Edgewater
Ellsworth Leary........ ....... ................1948. ............ . . .. ........Rock Hall
Nelson Colbourne ..................1949.................. Crisfield
Ex-Officio Members
Edwin Warfield, Jr., Chairman, Commission of Tidewater

Fisheries, Chairman of the Board............... . . .................. ....... Annapolis
Joseph F. Kaylor, State Forester .......... .............. .......... ............Baltimore
B. Lee LeCompte, State Game Warden........ . ............... . ....Baltimore
Director, Dept. Geology, Mines and Water Resources.
E. Lester Muller, Chairman, Md. Publicity Commission... ..Baltimore
B. V. Truitt, Director, Department Research and Edu-
cation, U. of Md........... .......................... . .. . College Park
William H. Bayliff, Executive Secretary

DEPARTMENT OF TIDEWATER FISHERIES

Chapter 508..Acts of 1941.

"There is hereby created a State Department to regulate and control
the tidewater fisheries to be known as the Commission of Tidewater
Fisheries. Said Commission shall be composed of three members,
citizens and residents of this State, to be appointed by the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more than two
of whom shall be of the same political party. The Governor shall
designate one member as Chairman, and the member thus designated
will retain such status during his term of office. The initial members
of said Commission shall be those persons constituting the Conserva-
tion Commission on the effective date of this Act. Upon the expira-
tion of the respective terms of such persons on June 1, 1943, one mem-
ber shall be appointed for a term of two years, one for a term of four
years and one for a term of six years, thereafter, the terms shall be
for a period of six years."