MARYLAND MANUAL 47

term of six years, is the head of the Department of State Employ-
ment and Registration. The Commissioner is responsible for the ad-
ministration of the Merit System Law and is empowered to make such
rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, as are
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act (Code 1939 and
1947 Supp. Art. 64A, sees. 4 and 5). Examinations are given by the
Commissioner's office for the various grades and classes of positions
in the State's service and from the registers established by means of
these examinations, appointments are made. The Commissioner's
office surveys, from time to time, the duties and qualifications neces-
sary for the various positions in the classified service for the purpose
of revising the classification of the positions. The Merit System, a
professional example of modern practice in public employment, func-
tions as a procurement agency charged with the duty of supplying
the State's departments and institutions with the most competent
personnel at the stated rate of pay.

Expenditures, 1949 .--......................---$143,358.77

Appropriation, I960 ...................--..... 147,688.00

Staff: 64.

STATE EMPLOYEES STANDARD SALARY BOARD

Ex-officio Members: James G. Eennie, Director Depart-
ment of Budget and Procurement; Russell S. Davis, State
Employment Commissioner; Joseph O'C. McCusker, Chief
Deputy Comptroller.

Appointed Members: James A. Downey, 1953; Brooke E.
Furr, 1953; Charles D. Harris, 1953; George W. Reed, 1953.
James P. Slicher, Secretary
318 Light Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 2050

The State Employees Standard Salary Board was established in
1941. The Board of seven members is composed of the Director of
Budget and Procurement, the State Employment Commissioner, and
the Chief Deputy Comptroller, ex-offido, and four persons appointed
by the Governor for six-year terms.

The Board prepared and recommended to the Governor a pay plan
for all classes of positions in both the Classified and Unclassified Serv-
ice, to the end that all positions in such services involving comparable
duties, experience, responsibilities and authority be paid in accord-
ance with the standard salary schedule. In establishing rates of pay,
the State Employees Standard Salary Board gives consideration to
experience, the prevailing rates of pay for services performed, and
for comparable services in public and private employment, living
costs, maintenance, or other benefits received by employees, and the
State's financial condition and policies. The pay plan, as approved by
the Governor, has the force of law. Amendments to the plan may,
from time to time, be recommended by the Board, and 'when approved