an automobile accident or collision or certain infractions of the motor
vehicle laws, certain evidence of financial responsibility must be pro-
duced to the Commissioner before licenses may be restored; (2) shat-
ter-proof glass is required in all motor vehicles manufactured or
assembled, sold and registered in this State after July 1, 1936: (3)
periodical inspection of vehicles by designated agencies.

DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND STATE POLICE

Headquarters, Pikesville Armory, Pikesville 8, Md.

Telephone: MOhawk 3701

Name Postoffice
Superintendent:

Colonel Beverly Ober (Term Expires 1947).. Baltimore 12, Md.
Executive Officer:

Major Edward McK. Johnson ... .... Baltimore 29, Md.
Traffic and Training Division

Captain Ruxton M. Ridgely.... ... Baltimore 18, Md.
Administrative Officer:

Captain Andrew T. Conner .. .... — . Baltimore 18, Md.
Field Force Operations:

Lieutenant William H. Weber........ .. Brooklyn Park, Md.
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Statistics:

Lieutenant George E. Davidson .. .... Baltimore 7, Md.
Training School:

Lieutenant Wilbour H. Conroy Baltimore 18, Md.
Traffic Collision Statistical Bureau:

Lieutenant Marlin D. Brubaker Glenwood, Md.
Medical Bureau:

Howard M. Bubert, M.D.... .......... .. Baltimore 10, Md.
The Department of Maryland State Police was created by Chapter
303 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1935. The Direction of
the Department is vested in the Superintendent, who holds the rank
of Colonel. He is appointed by the Governor with the advice and
consent of the senate, to serve for four years, from the first day of
June following his appointment.

Chapter 973 of the Acts of 1945, provided a roster of ranks and
grades with specified base salaries and a longevity pay plan, for the
police personnel of the Department. This Act further authorized the
Superintendent to establish such additional ranks and grades for the
police employees as may be required from time to time to carry on
the work of the Department and the number of police employees in
such additional ranks and grades shall be such as the Budget or Budget
Amendment or Amendments may from time to time provide.

All civilian and police employees are in the classified service, with
the exception of the Superintendent; police employees appointed to
the Department are on probation for two years from date of appoint-
ment.

The duties of the Maryland State Police, as now specified in the
State Police Act, are to prevent and detect crime, to apprehend
criminals, to enforce the criminal and motor vehicle laws, and to
perform such other related duties as may be imposed upon them by
the Legislature, which power shall be exercised in any and all parts
of the State. It further provides that the State Police shall not act