Expenditures Appropriations

1950 1951

General funds $320,949.73 $326,510.00
Special funds

Forest Reserve 43,024.96 50,166.00
Roadside Tree fund 87,863.42 105,006.00
Federal State Co-op-land 5,573.86 10,470.00
Reforestation 103,165.18 39,553.00
Federal Grants (1) 92,750.27 130,762.00

Total $653,327.42 $662,567.00

(1) Federal funds are granted under the Clark-McNary,
Norris-Doxey and Flood Control Acts.

Staff: 126.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. MINES AND

WATER RESOURCES
The Commission:

Chairman. Arthur B. Stewart, 1952

Mervin A. Pentz, 1953; Joseph C. Lore, Jr., 1954; Harry
R. Hall, 1966; C. Victor Cushwa, 1951.
Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Director

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 0771

The Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources was estab-
lished in 1941, superseding the State Geological and Economic Survey
Advisory Commission, the Bureau of Mines, the Water Front Commis-
sion, and the Water Resources Commission. The Department is under
the direction of a Commission of five members appointed by the Gov-
ernor for terms of five years. The term of one member expires each
year. The Commission selects its own chairman and appoints the
Director of the Department. Those functions of the Department deal-
ing with geology and water resources are under the immediate super-
vision of the Director; the supervision of the mining industry is
charged to the Bureau of Mines.

The Department has supervision of topographic, geologic, hydro-
graphic, and magnetic surveys. It prepares topographic, geologic and
such other maps as may be necessary to meet a specific need. Reports
on the extent and character of the State's mineral and water resources
are prepared by the Department. In cooperation with the United
States Government, surveys of the water resources of the State are
made. The agency investigates and recommends plans and policies for
the protection of the State's waterfront and waterways against
erosion. The Department has the further power to control and to
conserve, in so far as is practicable, the surface and underground
waters of Maryland; and to that end has jurisdiction over the con-
struction and repairs of reservoirs, dams, and other water-way obstruc-
tions. In this regard, the Department works in cooperation with the
Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State Department of Health.
In order to carry out this function, the Department licenses all water
well drillers in the State and issues a permit for each well to be drilled.
The Commission also has the power to promulgate and enforce such