ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS 5

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION

The Hall of Records Commission is an ex-officio body created by
Chapter 18, Acts of 1935 (Annotated Code of Maryland 1939, Article 41,
Section 123). The members of the Commission as of the end of the fiscal
year 1950 and their offices are as follows:

Chief Judge, Court of Appeals:

HONORABLE OGLE MARBURY, Chairman....... .... Annapolis

Governor:

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

Comptroller of the Treasury:

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

President of the St. John's College:

DR. RICHARD D. WEIGLE ........................ Annapolis

President of the Maryland Historical Society:

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

President of the Board of the Peabody Institute:

MR. WILLIAM L. MARBURY........................Baltimore

President of the Johns Hopkins University:

DR. DETLEV W. BRONK .......................... Baltimore

There was one change in the membership of the Hall of Records Com-
mission during the fiscal year. In my report for the preceding year I noted
that Mr. John S. Kieffer retired from the presidency of the St. John's Col-
lege on the last day of the fiscal year, that is June 30, 1949. He was suc-
ceeded September 17, 1949, by Dr. Richard D. Weigle, who thereupon
became a member of the Hall of "Records Commission. Dr. Weigle, who is
an historian and an administrator of governmental agencies by training, has
already shown much interest in the Hall of Records and it may be expected
that he will become a helpful counselor in our work.

On the second day after the close of the fiscal year James J. Lacy,
Comptroller of the Treasury and a member of the Commission since 1946,
died at his home in Baltimore. He had been sympathetic with our work
and had shown the utmost cooperation with the Archivist in the many