Assistant Medical Examiners, and the Toxicologists, and the expenses
of performing autopsies in the counties and the transportation of
bodies incident thereto. All other expenses of the Department are paid
by the City of Baltimore (Code 1967, Art. 22).

Appropriations 1969 1960

Special Funds ....................................... $108,600 $119,700
Staff: 32. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes and
Pathologists: 96.

State Roads and Motor Vehicles

STATE ROADS COMMISSION
The Commission

Chairman: John B. Funk

Paul J. Bailey, 1960; Harley P. Brinsfield, 1960; William B.
Owings, 1960; Lansdale G. Clagett, 1961; Thomas N. Kay,
1961; John J. McMullen, 1961.
John B. Funk, Director of Highways
Charles R. Pease, Secretary

Albert S. Gordon, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Norman M. Pritchett, Chief Engineer
Carl L. Wannen, Comptroller
Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant Attorney General

300 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: Vernon 7-9000
(Mailing address—P. 0. Box 717, Baltimore 3)

The State first took action to improve Maryland roads in 1898, when
the General Assembly ordered the Maryland Geological Survey Com-
mission to make a survey of State roads and write a report. In 1904
the first law authorizing State aid for road building put this program
under the supervision of the Highway Division of the Survey Commis-
sion, which performed this function until the creation of the State
Roads Commission in 1908. The State Roads Commission now consists
of seven members appointed by the Governor. The Chairman of the
Commission, also known as the Director of Highways, is appointed
from the State at large. One member is appointed from Caroline, Cecil,
Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, or Wor-
cester County; one from Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, or St. Mary's
County; one from Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, or Washing-
ton County; one from Montgomery or Prince George's County; one
from Baltimore, Harford, or Howard County; and one from the City
of Baltimore. At least two of the members must belong to whichever
of the two leading political parties in the State is not the party of the
Governor. The Chairman holds office at the pleasure of the Governor.
Three of the six other members were appointed for a term of one
year beginning June 1, 1959, and the three other members were
appointed for a term of two years beginning June 1, 1959; at the end
of the respective terms of one and two years, appointments will be
for a term of four years.

The Director of Highways has exclusive jurisdiction over the loca-
tion, construction, geometrics, design, and maintenance 'of the high-
ways that embrace the Interstate and the Primary systems of high-
ways. He has authority to confer with and conclude agreements with
the Bureau of Public Roads and other agencies of the United States