high calibre and avoid unnecessary duplication. The Southern Re-
gional Education Board is active in approximately twenty-five aca-
demic fields. It administers the regional education contracts by means
of which states which lack schools in certain fields are able to secure
training for their students at institutions operated either by other
states or by private corporations. The Southern Regional Education
Board is also a planning and development agency which studies needs
and resources in various academic fields and joins with universities
in Memoranda of Agreement to plan the development of specific pro-
grama on a regional basis. The administrative work of the Southern
Regional Board in Maryland is carried on by the University of Mary-
land (Code 1955 supp., Art. 41, secs. 160A-160D). The state is repre-
sented on the Southern Regional Education Board by the Governor
and three other persons appointed by him.

Appropriations 1965 1956
General Fund ................................ $79,600 $72,000

MISCELLANEOUS COMMISSIONS

STATE WAR BALLOT COMMISSION

Chairman: Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor
Vice Chairman: D. Lindley Sloan

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General; Louis L. Goldstein,
President of the Senate; John C. Luber, Speaker of the House
of Delegates; Harry T. Phoebus, Senate Minority Leader;
Melvin H. Derr, House Minority Leader; C. Arthur Eby.
Blanchard Randall, 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, 1960, 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. 164).

WASHINGTON CEMETERY TRUSTEES

C. L. Mobley, 1957; Fortune Odend'hall, 1957;
Mrs. J. Forney Young, 1957.

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).