motion of traffic safety. In cooperation with the Department of State
Police, the Commission releases monthly reports of traffic accidents
and fatalities in the State (Code 1957, sees. 229-30).

Appropriations 1959 1960

Special Funds $84,786 $84,785
Staff: 8.

Conservation of Natural Resources

BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Acting Chairman: Dr. Harry C. Byrd, Acting Director,

Department of Tidewater Fisheries

Ex officio members: L. Eugene Cronin, Director, Department
of Research and Education; Joseph F. Kaylor, Director,
Department of Forests and Parks; Paul W. McKee, Director,
Water Pollution Control Commission; Joseph T. Singewald,
Jr., Director, Department of Geology, Mines, and Water
Resources; Ernest A. Vaughn, Director, Department of
Game and Inland Fish.

Appointed members: Donald W. Pritchard, Ph.D., 1960;
George W. Todd, 1960; Richard H. Collins, 1961; Edward
K. Grimes, 1961; Ronald Bamford Ph.D., 1962; Lester N.
Towner, 1962; David Hume, 1963; Myron L. Bloom, 1963.

William H. Bayliff, Executive Secretary

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 8-3371

The General Assembly in 1941 (Code 1957, Art. 66C, sees. 6-21) con-
solidated nine independent conservation agencies into five equal depart-
ments, namely, the Department of Tidewater Fisheries, the Department
of Game and Inland Fish, the Department of Forests and Parks, the
Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, and the Depart-
ment of Research and Education. The same Act created the Board of
Natural Resources to coordinate and integrate the activities of these
five departments (Code 1957, Art. 66C, sees. 1-5). In 1969, the Water
Pollution Control Commission became the sixth agency associated with
the Board of Natural Resources (Acts 1959, chap. 695).

The Board is composed of eight appointed and six ex officio mem-
bers. The appointed members hold office for four-year terms and are
designated by the Governor as follows: two from the tidewater
counties of the Western Shore, two from the tidewater counties of the
Eastern Shore, and four from the State at-large. The ex officio mem-
bers are the directors of the six agencies associated with the Board.
The Director of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries is designated
by law as the Chairman of the Board.

The Board was created to formulate general policies on conservation
(Code 1957, Art. 66C, sec. 3). It publishes an annual report covering
the activities of the six agencies represented on the Board; maintains
the boundaries of the State (Code 1957, Art. 66C, sees. 31-32); admin-
isters certain mineral resources under the Chesapeake Bay (Code 1957,
Art. 66C, sees. 22-30); administers artificial islands in Sinepuxent Bay
(Code 1957, Art. 66C, sec. 33); and approves or disapproves of certain
fishery regulations (Code 1957, Art. 66C, sees. 294, 329).

Appropriations 1959 1960

General Funds $19,608 $20,070
Staff: 3.