to encourage and assist the legislative, executive, administrative and
judicial officials and employees of this State to develop and maintain
friendly contact with officials and employees of the other States, of
the Federal government and of local units of government; to en-
deavor to advance cooperation between this State and other units of
government, whenever it seems advisable, formulating proposals
for, and facilitating the adoption of compacts, the enactment of
uniform or reciprocal statutes or administrative rules or regula-
tions, and the cooperation of governmental officials and officers with
one another; and to take such other steps as it may deem advisable to
bring the various governments in the United States into closer con-
tact and to develop the Council of State Governments for this pur-
pose. The Commission may establish delegations and committees
to formulate proposals for securing intergovernmental harmony and
is required by the creating Act to report to the Governor and to the
Legislature within fifteen days after the convening of each regular
session and at other times deemed appropriate (Code 1951, Art. 40,
secs. 15-22).

COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PROMOTION OF UNIFORMITY
OF LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Chairman: C. Walter Cole, 1959
Roger Howell, 1959, Avrum K. Rifman, 1959
Masonic Building, Towson 4 Telephone: Valley 3-8465

The Governor, every fourth year, appoints this Board of three
Commissioners, who represent Maryland in the National Conference
of Commissioners OB Uniform State Laws. They receive no salary but
are allowed their actual disbursements for expenses (Code 1951, Art.
41, secs. 130, 131). The Commissioners meet on call of the chairman
to determine what acts to sponsor before the Legislative Council of
Maryland. The National Conference drafts laws to be submitted to
the legislatures of the several states and recommends measures for
the promotion of uniform legislation.

Appropriations 1967 1958

General Funds .......................$2,500 ?2,500
Staff: None

ATLANTIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION

Commissioners from the State of Maryland:

Chairman, Commission of Tidewater Fisheries: John P. Tawes
Appointed by the Commission on Interstate Cooperation:

Louis L. Goldstein
Appointed by the Governor: Hopkins Fisher, 1959

Wayne D. Heydecker, Secretary-Treasurer
22 West First Street,
Mount Vernon, N. Y. Telephone: Mount Vernon 8-1414

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is an outgrowth
of the "Eastern Conservation Conference" begun in 1937. Seven
states, including Maryland, drew up and ratified a compact in 1941,
This compact, assented to by the United States Congress and signed
by the President in 1942, is the legal basis of the Atlantic States
Marine Fisheries Commission, which today has a membership of fif-
teen Atlantic Seaboard States.