vision over them in Baltimore City only. Examinations are written
and practical. Applicants are eligible for examination after having
worked for six months under a licensed operator. Licenses must be
renewed annually. The Board has full power to suspend and revoke
licenses. The Board is required to meet monthly, but may meet more
often.

Appropriations 1955 1956
Special Fund ...................................... $1,863 $1,366

Staff: None.

STATE BOARD OF HAIRDRESSERS
AND BEAUTY CULTURISTS

Chairman: Agnes L. Giordano, 1957
Nyna Fey, 1956; Virgie Waters, 1956
Katheryne C. Linder, Chief Clerk

102 Park Avenue, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Mulberry 5-3843

The Board of Hairdressers and Beauty Culturists was created in
1935. The Board is composed of three members appointed by the
Governor for terms of three years. All members of the Board must
have had at least five years' practical experience in hairdressing or
beauty culture. They may not be affiliated with any firm manufac-
turing or selling any merchandise or commodity used in beauty shops,
nor be directly or indirectly connected with any school of beauty
culture. No two members shall serve at the same time who are
graduates of the same school of beauty culture. The Board employs
a secretary and a chief inspector.

The Board examines, licenses and registers all persons engaged in
or teaching hairdressing and beauty culture within the State. It has
general supervision of all beauty shops and schools of beauty culture
in the State in all matters pertaining to health and sanitation. In this
regard the board may issue such rules and regulations as it deems
proper and necessary, conduct hearings, administer oaths and compel
the attendance of witnesses. Examinations, both practical and writ-
ten, are conducted by the Board once in every three months. The
examinations are usually held in Baltimore (Code 1951, Art. 43, secs.
492-515).

Appropriations 1955 1956
Special Fund .................................. $37,704 $34,448
Staff: 16.

STATE BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS
President: Kermit F. Smith, D.C., 1955
Lewis S. Tawney, Sr., D.C.,1957

Adam Baer, D.C., Secretary-Treasurer, 1957

22 Broadway, Frostburg Telephone: Frostburg 355

The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners was created by an Act
of the General Assembly of 1920. The Board is composed of three
practicing chiropractors who must be residents of the State, be
graduated from a resident course in chiropractic, and have practiced
chiropractic in the State for a period of at least five consecutive