Department or in the counties, investigate violent and suspicious
deaths or deaths unattended by a physician. They must file a. report
of all deaths investigated with the Office of the Chief Medical Ex-
aminer. The records of the Department are open for inspection to the
family of the deceased and are acceptable in Court as evidence of the
facts contained. The county pays the Deputy Medical Examiners for
each death investigated. The State Comptroller pays the salaries of
the Chief Medical Examiner, the 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 1961 1962

Special Funds ............. . . . $126,342 $125,705
Staff: S3. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes and
Pathologists: 96.

State Roads and Motor Vehicles

STATE ROADS COMMISSION

The Commission
Chairman: John B. Funk

Paul J. Bailey, 1964; Harley P. Brinsfield, 1964; William B.
Owings, 1964; Lansdale G. Clagett, 1965; Thomas N. Kay,
1965; John J. McMullen, 1965.
John B. Funk, Director of Highways
Charles R. Pease, Secretary

Albert S. Gordon, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
David H. Fisher, Chief Engineer
Carl L. Wannen, Comptroller
Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant Attorney General

300 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000
(Mailing address—P. O. 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 by Chapter 141, Acts of 1908. The State Roads
Commission now consists of seven members appointed by the Governor
for terms of four years. 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 Worcester County; one
from Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, or St. Mary's County; one from
Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, or Washington 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 lead-
ing political parties in the State is not the party of the Governor.
The Chairman holds office at the pleasure of the Governor.

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-