HON. ALBERT C. RITCHIE Governor MARYLAND MANUAL 193 0 A Compendium of Legal, Historical and Statistical Information Relating to the STATE OF MARYLAND Compiled by DAVID C. WINEBRENNER, 3d, Secretary of State. 20TH CENTURY PRINTING CO. BALTIMORE. MD. State Government, 1930 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT State House, Annapolis. Baltimore Office 1004-1006 Union Trust Building. Governor: Albert C. Ritchie. Annapolis Secretary of State: David C. Winebrenner, 3d Frederick Stenographers: Miss Virginia Dinwiddie Ellinger Baltimore Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith Baltimore Clerks: Murray G. Hooper Annapolis Raymond M. Lauer Annapolis Chas. Burton Woolley Annapolis The Governor is elected by the people for a term of four years from the second Wednesday in January ensuing his election. The Sec- retary of State is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the Governor; all other officers are appointed by the Governor to hold office during his pleasure. Under the State Reorganization Law, which became operative Janu- ary 1, 1923, the Executive Department was reorganized and enlarged to include, besides the Secretary of State, the following: Parole Commis- sioner, The Commissioner of "the Land Office, The Superintendent of Pub- lic Buildings, The Department of Legislative Reference, The Commis- sioners for Uniform State Laws, The State Librarian. The Secretary of State, in addition to his statutory duties, is the General Secretary to the Governor. The statutory duties of the Secre- tary' are briefly as follows. His attestation of the Governor’s signa- ture to all public documents, commissions, pardons, warrants, procla- mations and the many other papers and certificates is required: he is the custodian of the records of the Executive Department; Certificates of Nomination of certain political candidates are required to be filed in his office and their names certified by him to the Election Super- visors for placement upon the ballot; he is a member of the Board of State Canvassers and prepares that Board’s minutes and certifications in addition to keeping the records of their meetings and of the election returns; employees of legislative counsels and agents are required to certify to him, under oath, whatever expenses have been incurred by them in connection with their activities for or against legislation be- fore the General Assembly; he is the custodian of the Great Seal of the State; railroad leases are filed in his office and he exercises gen- eral supervision over the detail work of the entire Executive Depart- ment which consists of the office of the Governor and Secretary of State. 4 MARYLAND MANUAL. GOVERNOR’S MILITARY STAFF. The Military Staff of the Governor is provided for in Section 8, Article 65, Bagby’s Annotated Code of Maryland (Chapter 490, General Assembly of Maryland, January session, 1922), as follows: “The staff of the Governor shall consist of the Adjutant General and not more than ten aides. The Adjutant General shall be appointed by the Governor. He shall have the grade of Brigadier General and his salary shall be as stated in the annual budget. “The aides shall be selected by the Governor from the commissioned officers of the National Guard and National Guard Reserve, each of them may receive a commission as aide, which, however, shall not add to the actual grade of the officer so appointed, nor shall such officer be relieved from duty with his proper organization, but shall perform all duty per- taining thereto except when actually on duty as aide under the orders of the Governor.” PAROLE COMMISSIONER. Morris Building, Baltimore, Charles and Saratoga Streets. Ambrose J. Kennedy 1931 Baltimore Secretary: Harry S. Hartman, Morris Building Baltimore Chief Parole Officer: Roy E. Smith .Baltimore Parole Officer: T. Hunt Mayfield Ellicott City Stenographer: Freda Winterling Baltimore The Governor, with the consent of the Senate, appoints one who shall not be less than 30 years of age and a resident and registered voter of the State for at least four years prior to his appointment. Term of two years from the first Monday in May. Ch. 29, 1922. The duties of this Commissioner are to investigate all applications for pardon and parole and report the result to the Governor. The Commissioner must take under his supervision for such time as the Governor may direct the inmates of any penal institution of the State who may be paroled by the Governor, and keep records showing the actions, earnings, etc., of the said paroled prisoners during that time, reporting at once to the Governor ihe violation of any of the terms of their parole. In pursuing his investigations, the Commissioner has power to sum- mons witnesses and to examine them on their oath when necessary. The Commissioner has visitorial powers over every institution to which prisoners, whether adults or minors, are committed that receive aid from the State, city or private sources. MARYLAND MANUAL. 5 COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis. (All Terms Expire 1931) Name. Postoffice. Commissioner: George C. Peverley. Mechanicsville Chief Clerk: Arthur Trader .....Annapolis Assistant Clerks: Edward Phelps :. Annapolis Holland P. Watts. Odenton Stenographer: Malcolm W. Waring Annapolis The Commissioner of the Land Office is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the Governor. The Commissioner appoints all officers in his office. (Con- stitution, Art. 7, Sec. 4.) The Land Office is the State Record Office, pertaining to boundaries of land, and is the means by which discovered vacant land is passed by the State to the individual, and covers the period from the earliest to the present date. The Commissioner sits as a judge in contested disputes over vacant land, and there is a right of appeal direct to the Court of Appeals over his decision. The duties of the Land Office, in regard to its clerical force, is to keep the indexing, answer the various questions that are daily brought to it by the mail, wait on the visiting public, and record the patents and certificates that are returned on the different kinds of warrants executed by the county surveyors throughout the State. Questions relating to military service during the War of the Amer- ican Revolution. Questions relating to wills, administration proceedings, inventories, accounts and balances from the earliest to 1777. Questions relating to confiscated British property. Questions relating to Provincial Court, General Court, Court of Chancery, debt books, rent rolls, insolvent proceedings, and extract of deeds from the whole State. Duplicate record of all deeds, mortgages and releases of mortgages throughout the State are filed here, and it is the duty of the Commis- sioner to have them properly bound and indexed. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS— Annapolis. Name. Postoflice. Superintendent: John R. Phipps .'. Annapolis The Superintendent and all officers in his department are appointed by the Governor. (Ch. 551, 1906.) 6 MARYLAND MANUAL. The Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds is the custo- dian of the State Capitol, Court of Appeals Building and Executive Mansion in the City of Annapolis. DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE. City Hall, Baltimore. Executive Officer, Horace E. Flack, Baltimore. The function of the Department of Legislative Reference is to col- lect, compile and index information on all questions of proposed legis- lation, to investigate and report upon the laws of Maryland and other States at the request of the Governor, any committee or member of the General Assembly, or the head of any State Department. It is also made the duty of the Department to prepare or aid in the preparation of any bill or resolution on the request of any member of the Legis- lature, and to maintain an office at Annapolis during the sessions of the Legislature. There is on file in the Department a complete set of all bills which have been introduced in the Legislature of Maryland from 1908 to 1929, inclusive, with a full index of same, and the Codes and Laws of the other States. (Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1916, An. Code Art. 41, Sec. 64-65.) UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION COMMISSION. (Terms Expire 1931) Name. Postoffice. Alexander Armstrong Hagerstown John Hinkley Baltimore Randolph Barton, Jr Baltimore Governor appoints three for a term of four years. (Chaps. 484 and 609, 1927.) This Board was organized for the purpose of examining the laws of marriage and divorce, insolvency, and other laws of a similar nature, and to ascertain the best means to effect uniformity of the same throughout the United States. STATE LIBRARY—Annapolis. (All Terms Expire 1931.) Name. Postoffice. State Librarian: Miss Mary E. Shearn Annapolis Custodian of Works of Reference: Miss Frances B. Wells Annapolis Indexer and Cataloguer: Frank P. Bassett Annapolis The State Librarian is appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the Governor (Con- MARYLAND MANUAL. 7 stitution, Art. 7, Sec. 3) ; the Custodian of Works of Reference is ap. pointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term of two years or until the appointment of a successor. (Ch. 50, 1906) ; the Indexer and Cataloguer is appointed by the Governor, with the con- sent of the Library Committee, for a term of two years or until his suc- cessor is duly appointed and qualified. (Ch. 271, 1900.) The Librarian is required to have counted all volumes received in the Library and to keep a record of the same, including the Maryland Session Laws, the House and Senate Journals, the Documents, the Maryland Reports, and all volumes named in various legislative bills, etc., giving a certified account of the number received to the State Comptroller before payment is made for the same to the State Printer. The Session Laws, etc., named above are distributed by the Librarian every two years (Section 7, Article 55), the Maryland Reports in accordance with Article 55, Public General Laws, 1912.