Maryland State Horticultural Society. The terms of the members are
for four years. However, of the first group, one was appointed for
one year, two for two years, two for three years, and two for four
years. All successive appointments shall be for full four-year terms.
The purpose of the Commission is to raise funds for conducting pub-
licity and advertising, sales promotion, education, and research to
increase the demand for, and consumption of, Maryland apples. All
apples of U. S. Number 1 Canner Grade or better, grown in Maryland
and sold in commercial trade are subject to a tax of one cent a
bushel. However, the first five hundred bushels sold by any producer
are tax-exempt. Commercial growers must report all apples sold
during the crop season by December 311 each year. Apples sold after
the season shall be reported by the close of the following May. The
funds received by the Commission for these purposes are deposited
with the State Treasurer in a Merchandising Fund, and none of this
money may be used for any other purpose (Code 1947 Supp. Art. 97,
secs. 66-78).

Expenditures, 1950, Special Funds $6,422.83
Appropriation. 1951, Special Funds 7,423.00
Staff: 1.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

Board of Correction

Enos S. Stockbridge, Chairman and Director, 1956
Gertrude E. Horigan, 1952; Angelo Schiadaressi, 1952;
Howard E. Crook, 1953; R. Emmet Bradley, 1953; John T.
King, M.D., 1955; James H. Grove, Jr., 1955.

Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent of Prisons
Alice J. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer
1410 Standard Oil Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 3789

The Department of Correction was organized in 1939 superseding
the Board of Welfare and the Board of Prison Control in the super-
vision and administration of the penal institutions of the State. The
Department is administered by a Board of Correction appointed by
the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Chair-
man of the Board, who is also the Director of the Department, is
appointed by the Governor for a term of four years, while associate
members of the Board are appointed for six terms. The Board has
power to make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the
government of the institutions under its control (Code 1939, Art. 27,
sec. 743). The Superintendent of Prisons acts as executive of the
department by a directive of the Board of Correction.

The Department supervises and operates the State Use Industries
which provide employment for the prisoners in the various penal insti-
tutions. The goods manufactured in the State Use Industries shops
are for sale to the various agencies of the State of Maryland, the
Federal government, the District of Columbia, and the states and
territories of the United States as well as to the political sub-
divisions thereof. Manufactured products are also available to re-
ligious and charitable institutions providing the goods are for their