MARYLAND MANUAL 85
Appropriations—1956

	General	Special	Federal
	Fund	Fund	Fund	Total
General Administration ....	$91,661	$365	$............	$ 92,026
Forest Fire Prevention
and Control ....................	236,923	9,082	100,000	346,005
Technical Forestry and
Reforestation ..................	85,991	13,500	24,500	123,991
State Forest and Recreation
Area Management ........	56,283	50,000		106,283
Patapsco State Park ........	88,677	12,050		100,727
Sandy Point State Park ....	18,745	38,000		56,745
Other State Park
Operations ......................	63,986	13,000		76,986
Roadside Tree Protection		123,612		123,612
Totals ........................	$642,266	$259,609	$124,500	$1,026,375
Staff: 154.

PATAPSCO LAND ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairman: Howard DeMuth

Representing the State:

H. Lee Hoffman, Nancy A. Parr, I. Alvin Pasarew, Charles
M. Bandiere, Mrs. Jesse F. Hakes, August A. Denhard,
W. Bladen Lowndes.

Representing the Counties:

Anne Arundel County: Walter C. Munroe, John W. Sherwood;
Baltimore County: George A. Oursler, Charles W. Keller,
Jr., Carroll County: Walter V. Bennett, Capt. H. C. Jeffer-
son; Howard County: Carl W. Meyer, A. Brooke Gallion.

Representing Baltimore City:

John A. Cochran, Robert Garrett.

The Patapsco Land Advisory Committee was appointed in June
1951, by the Governor. It consists of sixteen members, six represent-
ing the State, two representing Baltimore City and two representing
each of the four counties in which the park is situated. The Com-
mittee serves as an advisory group to the Department of Forests and
Parks in the acquisition of land for the Patapsco River Valley Park.

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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, MINES AND

WATER RESOURCES

The Commission

Chairman: Arthur B. Stewart, 1957

Harry R. Hall, 1955; C. Victor Cushwa, 1956, Richard W.
Cooper, 1958; John U Geyer, 1959. /
Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Director

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18

Telephone: Belmont 5-0771

The Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources was estab-
lished in 1941, superseding the State Geological and Economic Survey