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Attendance of witnesses may be enforced by the Gov-
ernor in investigating cases of complaint against civil or
military officers. (Article 41, section 12, P. G. L.)
Officers complained against shall have copy of com-
plaint, and time when the Governor will inquire into
them, and the Governor may order the costs arising in
such complaints to be paid by the State or the party com-
plained against, and may enforce payment of the same.
(Article 41, sections 13 and 14, P. G. L.)
Proclamation of elections of presidential electors and
members of Congress shall be issued by the Governor on
receiving and enumerating the returns. (Article 41, sec-
tion 15, P. G. L.)
Duplicate discharges shall, upon application, be issued
by the Governor, on necessary proof of service of Mary-
land Volunteers in the Mexican War. (Article 41, section
section 17, P. G. L.)
Intercourse with infected places, either foreign or in
the United States, may be interdicted by the Governor.
(Article 41, section 1 P. G. L.)
All vacancies not otherwise provided for by the Con-
stitution and Laws; the Governor is empowered to fill by
Article 42, section 24, P. G. L., Maryland Code. (Acts of
1862, chapter 68.)
An insane convict, confined in the penitentiary, may be
removed by the Governor, upon the recommendation of
the Board of Directors, to the Maryland Hospital or any
State institution for the insane, and the expense shall be
defrayed by the Board of Directors of the penitentiary
out of the funds arising from or appropriated to that
institution. (P. G. L., Article 41, section 23, arid P. G.
L., Article 41, section 22.)
A collector of State taxes from any part of the State
shall be appointed by the Governor, if there be not a
qualified collector of State taxes by the 15th day of May
in any year, and said collector's bond shall be approved
by the Governor. (Article 8], section 39, P. G. L.)
A collector of State taxes in Baltimore, who shall fail
to make daily deposits in some bank, of money received
by him for taxes, shall be liable to removal by the Gov-
ernor. (Article 81, section 34, P. G. L.)
One of the three persons elected as judges of the
Orphans' Courts in the counties and in Baltimore city,
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