JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

by any individual, corporation, partnership, city, State, county
or municipality, upon such terms as may be agreed upon.
The said corporation shall have the right to establish branches
for the transaction of its business in any State or territory and
in any foreign country , and to have and appoint agents, officers
and employees to manage the same under the general author-
ity and direction of the board of directors of said company or
its duly authorized executive committee; provided, that said
corporation shall be subject at all times to the provisions of
the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, Chapters one
hundred and nine and two hundred and seventy-nine, or amend-
ments or supplements thereto, and to all other general laws
affecting similar corporations.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
:from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1900.

CHAPTER 111.
AN ACT to add additional sections to Article 41, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Governor," to be
known as .Sections twenty-five, twenty-six, and to follow
Section twenty-four.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following sections be added to Article 41, of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Governor," to follow
Section twenty-four, and to be known as Sections twenty-five
and twenty-six, and to read as follows:

25. The Governor shall once in every two years, and
oftener if he thinks it necessary, cause an examination to be
made of the affairs of all State tobacco warehouses and all
offices created by the Constitution and laws of this State, and
receiving fees or funds of any kind, for which they are
required to account with the State or any State official, and
if in his judgment he may deem proper, all State institutions,
public or private, receiving State aid, and shall biennially
report the result of said examinations to the General Assem-
bly, with such recommendations as he may deem proper with
reference thereto.

Governor shall
examine all

offices.

26. For the purpose of making the examinations required
by the preceding section, the Governor is authorized and
empowered to employ such clerical or expert help as he may
deem necessary, and the sum of three thousand dollars per

Authority to
employ help.