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114 MARYLAND MANUAL The Department of Post-Mortem Examiners created by Chapter 369, Acts of 1939 to replace a decentralized system of local coroners, is directed by a commission composed of a representative of the State Department of Health, the Commissioner of Health of Balti- more City, the Superintendent of Maryland State Police, and the Professors of Pathology at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. The Department replaced the coroners of Baltimore City by a Chief and two Assistant Medical Examiners, and the county coroners by Deputy Medical Examiners. In 1957 the Gen- eral Assembly authorized three Assistant Medical Examiners and an Assistant Toxicologist and in 1965 an additional Medical Examiner and a Serologist. The Commission appoints all personnel. The medical examiners investigate violent and suspicious deaths or deaths unat- tended by a physician throughout the State. They must file a report of all deaths investigated with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. 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 1965 1966 Special Funds ....................................... $236,675 $244,800 Staff: 40. Deputy Medical Examiners, Substitutes and Pathologists: 90. State Roads and Motor Vehicles STATE ROADS COMMISSION The Commission Chairman: John B. Funk Paul J. Bailey, 1968; Harley P. Brinsfield, 1968; William B. Owings, 1968; Lansdale G. Clagett, 1969; Leslie H. Evans, 1969; John J. McMullen, 1969. 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 Walter E. Woodford, Jr., Chief, Administrative Division LeRoy C. Moser, Chief, Right-of-Way Division Walter J. Addison, Chief, Planning and Programming Division 300 W. Preston Street, Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 837-9000 (Mailing address—P. 0. Box 717, Baltimore 21203) 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 |
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