EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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said body shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by

this Act on the Board of County Commissioners, and be sub-

ject to all the duties and obligations imposed by the terms

of this Act upon the Board of County Commissioners of

the respective counties of the State.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act shall be

Act does not

taken to alter, abridge or in any way affect the present method

affect present

of road construction or repair by the respective counties, at their

method.

own expense or otherwise, as now authorized by law.

SEC. 1 6. And be it enacted, That the sum of two hundred

thousand dollars annually, or so much thereof as may be

Annual appro-

necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any

priation.

money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the

purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this

Act shall be regarded as adding to such an extent as may be

Perform addi-
tional duties.

necessary to enable it to perform the additional duties herein-

before imposed upon it, to the powers and duties conferred

upon said commission by the Act of the General Assembly

of 1898, Chapter 454.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

January 1, 1905.

Approved April 2, 1904.

CHAPTER 226.

AN ACT to regulate the practice of barbering in the State of

Maryland ; to establish a State Board of Barber Examiners;

to provide for the sanitary inspection of barber shops, and

to provide penalties for the violation thereof.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That within thirty days after the passage of this Act
the Governor shall appoint a Board of Barber Examiners for

Board of Bar-
ber Examin-
ers.

the State of Maryland. The Board shall consist of three mem-

bers, two of whom shall be journeymen barbers and one of

whom shall be a master barber, and each of whom shall serve

for a term of two years from the date when his appointment

shall take effect, except in the case of an appointment to fill

a vacancy. No person shall be eligible to appointment as a

member of said Board unless he has been continuously for five

vears last past engaged in the occupation of a barber within this

State.