The Maryland Traffic Safety Commission, organized by Chapter 274,
Acts of 1941, consists of eighteen members appointed by the Governor
for six-year terms, one-third of these terms expiring every two years.

The Commission seeks to promote traffic safety on the streets and
highways of Maryland; to coordinate the activities of public and
private agencies interested in, or affected by, the problems of traffic
safety; and to assist such agencies to augment their programs by
study, education, and information. The Commission has enlisted the
aid of business associations, civic groups and newspapers in the pro-
motion of traffic safety. It has also utilized radio, television, news-
papers, billboards, safety conferences, lectures and exhibits. The
Commission also plans State-wide safety programs and works with
national organizations in the promotion of traffic safety. In coopera-
tion with the Department of State Police the Commission issues
releases to the media on traffic accidents and fatalities in the State
(Code 1957, 1962 Supp., Art. 41, secs. 229-30; Art. 66 1/2, sec. 341d).

Appropriations 1963 1964

Special Funds .................................... $114,290 $110,106
Staff: 9.

Conservation of Natural Resources

BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Chairman: Joseph H. Manning, Director
Department of Tidewater Fisheries
Vice Chairman: Ronald Bamford, 1966

Ex officio members: Ernest A. Vaughn, Director, Department
of Game and Inland Fish; H. C. Buckingham, Acting Direc-
tor, Department of Forests and Parks; Kenneth N. Weaver,
Director, Department of Geology, Mines and Water Re-
sources; L. Eugene Cronin, Director, Natural Resources
Institute, University of Maryland; Paul W. McKee, Direc-
tor, Water Pollution Control Commission.
Appointed members: David Hume, 1963; Donald W. Pritch-
ard, 1964; George W. Todd, 1964; G. Francis Beaven, 1965;
Richard H. Collins, 1965; Lester N. Towner, 1966; Roy E.
Walsh, 1967.
William H. Boyliff, Executive Secretary

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: 268-3371

The General Assembly in 1941 (Code 1957, Art. 66C, secs. 6-21)
consolidated nine independent conservation agencies into five equal
departments, namely, the Department of Tidewater Fisheries, the
Department of Game and Inland Fish, the Department of Forests and
Parks, the Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, and
the Department of Research and Education. The same act created the
Board of Natural Resources to coordinate and integrate the activities
of these five departments (Code 1957, Art. 66C, secs. 1-5). In 1959
the Water Pollution Control Commission (Acts 1959, chap. 695) be-
came the sixth agency associated with the Board of Natural Resources.
In 1961 the Department of Research and Education was abolished and
replaced by the Natural Resources Institute of the University of
Maryland (Acts 1961, chap. 776).

The Board is composed of eight appointed and six ex officio mem-
bers. The appointed members hold office for four-year terms and are
designated by the Governor as follows: four from the State at-large;