the rapidly increasing population of older persons. The Commission
consists of sixteen members, of whom ten are appointed by the
Governor for staggered six-year terms. Of these ten, one must be a
member of the Maryland. State Senate, and one, a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates. One must represent the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty, and one, the Baltimore City Medical Society. In
addition, one must represent labor, one must represent industry, one
must be specially knowledgeable in research, one must be associated
with the work of charitable organizations, and two must be selected
because of their interest in the problems of the aging. The remaining
six members must be, ex officio, the Director of the State Department
of Health, the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Hygiene,
the Director of the State Department of Public Welfare, the State
Superintendent of Schools, the Executive Director of the Department
of Employment Security, and the Chairman of the State Planning
Commission. The Commission appoints an Executive Director.

The Commission studies the problems of the aging in order to
promote their welfare in every manner possible. It cooperates with,
and receives the cooperation of, other State agencies. It must report
to the Governor and the General Assembly each year (Acts 1959,
chap. 1).

Appropriation 1959 1960

General Funds $26,000
Staff: 2.

Correctional Agencies

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
Board of Correction

Chairman: G. C. A. Anderson, 1963

Ex officio member: Wallace Reidt, Chairman, Board of Parole

and Probation.

Appointed members: Gertrude E. Horigan, 1962; Angelo Schia-
daressi, 1962; Ray S. Gould, 1963; John T. King, M.D., 1963;
Joseph H. Rash, 1963; William H. Reisner, Jr., 1963.
James W. Curran, Superintendent of Prisons
Alice J. Ford, Secretary, Board <)of Correction

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: Vernon 7-9000

Until the twentieth century, Maryland prisons were independent
agencies. In 1916 the General Assembly put them under the super-
vision of the Board of Prison Control. A general reorganization of the
Executive Branch in 1922 abolished this agency and created the Board
of Welfare. In 1939, the Department of Correction superseded this
Board, and an Act of 1953 put administration of the Department under
the control of the Superintendent of Prisons, who is appointed by the
Board of Correction with the approval of the Governor and the consent
of the Senate. The Board of Correction, as presently organized, con-
sists of the Chairman of the Board of Parole and Probation, ex officio,
and the Chairman and six associate members, at least one of whom
must be a woman, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Senate, for four-year terms. The Board
establishes the policy of the Department and appoints the executive
personnel of the institutions upon the recommendation of the Super-