ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION

The Hall of Records Commission is an ex-officio body created
by Chapter 18, Acts of 1935. The members of the Commission
and their offices are as follows:

Chief Judge, Court of Appeals:

HONORABLE OGLE MARBURY, Chaiiman...........Laurel

Governor:

HONORABLE WILLIAM PRESTON LANE, JR..........Annapolis

Comptroller of the Treasury:

HONORABLE JAMES J. LACY...................................................Baltimore

President of the St. John's College:

MR. JOHN S. KIEFFER.................................................................Annapolis

President of the Maryland Historical Society:

HONORABLE GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE........................................Baltimore

President of the Board of the Peabody Institute:

DR. J. HALL PLEASANTS................................................................Baltimore

President of the Johns Hopkins University:

DR. ISAIAH BOWMAN..................................................................Baltimore

The fiscal year 1947 witnessed three changes in the member-
ship of the Hall of Records Commission. It was already known
at the end of the previous fiscal period that neither Governor
Herbert R. O'Conor nor the Honorable J. Millard Tawes, State
Comptroller, would succeed himself, but the third change caused
by the resignation of Mr. Stringfellow Barr as President of the
St. John's College was quite unexpected.

Governor O'Conor, who had served as a member of the Hall
of Records Commission from the time of his first inaugural in
January 1939, had been closely connected with the work of the
Hall of Records for eight of its twelve years of life. Mr. Tawes,
who had served for the same length of time, completed his term
of office in December 1946. Governor O* Conor had always been