EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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City, who shall constitute the Board of State Aid and Charities.

The members of this board shall serve from the first Monday

in the month of May next after their appointment and shall

continue in office for two years and until their successors shall

have been appointed and have qualified. Appointments to fill

vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal shall be

made by the Governor. Not more than four members of

any retiring board shall be eligible to reappointment to suc-

ceed themselves on the next board.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no member of this board

nor its secretary shall be directly or indirectly interested in

Members not

any contract for building, repairing or furnishing in whole

to be interest-
ed in con-

or in part, or be financially interested in any contract with

tracts, etc.

any institution coming under the supervision of this board ;

nor shall any officer, secretary or employee of any such in-

stitution be eligible to appointment on this board.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the members of this board

shall receive no compensation for their services, but their actual

Compensation
not allowed.

expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board or in

attending to its necessary business shall be paid ; and the

Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized and directed to

pay to the president of said board such sums not exceeding

five hundred dollars in the aggregate in any one year as he

may demand for such necessary expenses. And the said board

shall further be allowed a sum not exceeding two hundred

and fifty dollars to be used for the printing of its report and for

the purchase of such stationery and supplies as it may need.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the board shall hold regular

meetings quarterly and may hold adjourned, special or called

To investigate
system of

meetings at any time in such places within this State as may

State aid.

seem to it convenient and expedient. It shall investigate and

consider the whole system of State aid to public and other

institutions receiving aid in this State. To this end it shall

nave power to make an investigation at any time into the Con-

dition and management of any institution financially aided by

this State, and may demand such information, statistical or

otherwise, as it may desire from the officers, directors or em-

ployees of such institutions; or it may direct such an investi-

gation to be made by a committee of its members or by its

secretary. Within one week after the convening of every

regular session of the General Assembly it shall furnish to

the chairman of the finance committee of the Senate and the

ways and means committee of the House of Delegates a printed

report of the condition of all the institutions receiving finan-