MISCELLANEOUS AND TEMPORARY COMMISSIONS
STATE WAR BALLOT COMMISSION

Chairman: Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor

Vice Chairman: D. Lindley Sloan

Edward D. E. Rollins, Attorney General; George W. Della,
President of the Senate; John C. Luber, Speaker of the
House of Delegates; Robert B. Kimble, Senate Minority
Leader; Arthur H. Green, House Minority Leader; C. Arthur
Eby.
John R. Reeves, Secretary of State, Secretary to the Commission

State House, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 3-2666

The State War Ballot Commission was created by the special ses-
sion of the General Assembly held July 27, 1950, at which time the
State's wartime Absentee Voting Law was re-enacted. The Commis-
sion is composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney
General, the presiding officer of each House of the General Assembly,
the Minority Leader of each House of the General Assembly, ex-officio,
and two persons, who are not members of the same political party,
appointed by the Governor. The Commission is responsible for the
administration of the Absentee Voting Law. To carry out the provi-
sions of the law, the Commission may make necessary rules and
regulations and provide assistance to the local election boards as
required (Code 1951, Art. 33, sec. 154).

WASHINGTON CEMETERY TRUSTEES

C. L. Mobley, 1954; Fortune Odend'hall. 1964;
Mrs. J. Forney Young, 1954.

The Washington Cemetery Trustees were chartered in 1870 by the
General Assembly. The three trustees are appointed by the Governor
for a term of three years. The trustees are responsible for the main-
tenance of Washington Cemetery, Hagerstown, where the Confederate
dead of the battles of Antietam and South Mountain are interred
(Acts 1870, ch. 213).

COMMISSION ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
OF THE STATE

Chairman: Enos S. Stockbridge

Charles M. Bandiere, Roger Howell, Henry P. Irr, J.
Howard Johnson, David Kauffman, James A. Newell, Reuben
Oppenheimer, F. Neal Parke, J. Theodore Wolfe, Abel
Wolman.

34 Hopkins Place, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Lexington 9-0366

The Commission on the Administrative Organization of the State
was appointed by the Governor in March, 1961, for the purposes of
examining the administrative structures and procedures of the State
and making recommendations, if found necessary, to increase its
economy and efficiency. The Commission is assisted by a larger
Citizens' Advisory Committee, also appointed by the Governor. The
Commission is temporary and will disband upon completion of its
assigned task.