reviews all budget amendments presented by the various State
agencies. The Bureau may investigate the necessity for all expendi-
tures (Code 1951, 1957 supp., Art. ISA, secs. 15-23).

Purchasing Bureau

The Director also appoints the head of the Purchasing Bureau,
which is charged with the purchase of all supplies, material, and
equipment for the use of State agencies. It maintains a warehouse
for the storage of supplies paid for out of the Revolving Fund of
$300,000. Supplies stocked by the Warehouse are purchased from
it by State agencies, which receive invoices and make payment to
the Revolving Fund in the same manner as to other vendors. (Code
1951, 1957 supp., Art. 15A, secs. 24-29).

Since March 6, 1949, the Department has distributed donable foods
from the Production and Marketing Administration, U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, to public and private eleemosynary institutions
and agencies in the State of Maryland. There are 142 such institu-
tions .and agencies serving 23,297 persons.

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds $341,221 $350,150
Staff: 57.

Law and Legislation

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, 1958
Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Attorney General
Assistant Attorneys General:
Charles B. Reeves, Jr.
Joseph S. Kaufman
Clayton A. Dietrich
E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr.
Special Assistant Attorneys General:

Theodore C. Waters, Jr., for Comptroller of the Treasury
Joseph D. Buscher, for State Roads Commission
Bernard S. Melnicove, for Department of Employment Se-
curity

Leroy W. Preston, for Enforcement of Anti-Subversive Act
Special Attorneys:
For State Accident Fund: Ernest N. Cory, Jr., U. Theodore

Hayes, J. Howard Holzer.

For State Roads Commission: Walter W. Claggett, Thomas
Joseph Missel, T. Thornton Murray, Frederick A. Puder-
baugh, Eugene Ricks, Earl I. Rosenthal, Robert S. Rothen-
hoefer.

For Commission of Tidewater Fisheries: Edward S. Digges.
Special Assistant to the Attorney General:
James H. Norris, Jr.

1201 Mathieson Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 9-5413

The Attorney General is elected by the people for a term of four
years (Const. 1867, Art. 5, sec. 1). He is the Director of the De-
partment of Law, which was established in 1916. The Attorney
General serves as legal counsel to the Governor, the General As-
sembly, and to all departments, boards, or commissions of the State,