MARYLAND TOBACCO AUTHORITY

George Max Beal, 1957; William w. Dyson, 1955; Frank
Hall, 1955; T. Reid Hutchins, 1960, James P. Ryon, 1956;
John Schillinger, 1959; Dudley Smith, 1957.
Bryan M. Pumphrey, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

Upper Marlboro Telephone: Market 7-3603

The Maryland Tobacco Authority was created by the General As-
sembly of Maryland in 1947. The Authority is composed of seven
members appointed by the Governor for a term of three years. The
Board elects its own chairman.

The Authority may make investigations and studies of any phase of
tobacco marketing or production in the State, provide information
relative to the tobacco price structure; and make recommendations
for legislation to provide more effective handling of tobacco, to have
a voice with the buyers and commission agencies in fixing marketing
periods, and to assure the accuracy of weights and measures used by
tobacco commission selling agencies. The Authority is further em-
powered to license commission agencies and purchasers. The agency
shall also collect a fee from the owner of tobacco sold at a commission
agency. The funds as collected shall be used by the agency (Code
1951, Art. 48, secs. 64-76).

The Authority has appointed a representative to visit American
and European factories for the purpose of developing markets for
Maryland tobacco.

Appropriations 1955 1956
Special Fund .................................. $18,840 $19,860
Staff: 2.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
Board of Correction

Chairman: Enos S. Stockbridge, 1959

Wallace Reidt, Chairman, Board of Parole and Probation;
John T. King, M.D., 1961; John D. Dunn, 1961; Gertrude E.
Horigan, 1958; Angelo Schiadaressi, 1958; Howard E. Crook,
1959; Joseph H. Rash, 1959.
Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent of Prisons
Alice J. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer

James W. Curran, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons and
Industrial Supervisor

1410 Standard Oil Bldg., Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 9-3789

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 was further re-organized by an Act of 1963 so that the
administration of the Department of Correction is under the control
of the Superintendent of Prisons, appointed by the Board of Correc-
tion, with the approval of the Governor and the consent of the Sen-
ate. The Board of Correction, as presently organized, consists of
the Chairman of the Board of Parole and Probation, ex-officio, and
the Chairman and six associate members, at least one of whom shall
be a woman, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent
of the Senate, for terms of six years. The Board establishes the