ART. 41] MARYLAND FLAG. 1061

thereafter as said board may deem proper, an account of its transactions
and its advice and recommendations as required by section 1 of the act
of 189ft, chapter 264.

Maryland Flag.

1904, art 41, sec. 26. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 1.

26. The flag heretofore and now in use and known as the Maryland
flag is hereby legalized and adopted as the flag of the State of Mary-
land, which said flag is particularly described, as to coloring and arrange-
ment, as follows: Quartered—the first and fourth quarters being paly
of six pieces, or and sable, a bend dexter counterchanged; the second
and third, quarterly, argent and gules, a cross bottony countersigned;
that is to say, the first and fourth quarters consist of six vertical bars
alternately gold and black with a diagonal band on which the colors
are reversed, the second and third consisting of a quartered field of red
and white, charged with a Greek cross, its arms terminating in trefoils,
with the coloring transported, red being on the white ground and white
on the red, and all being as represented upon the escutcheon of the
present great seal of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 2.

27. The flag of Maryland shall be displayed from the state house
at Annapolis, Maryland, continuously during the session of the general
assembly, and on such other public occasions as the governor of the
State shall order and direct, the flag always to be so arranged upon the
flag-staff as to have the black stripe on the diagonal bands of the first
quartering at the top of the staff as represented in the illustration of
the Maryland flag in "Chronicles of Colonial Maryland."

Representatives at Meetings of State Institutions.

1906, ch. 740.

28. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint,
from time to time, one or more discreet persons to attend meetings of
the boards of directors, managers, trustees or visitors of corporations
and institutions receiving financial assistance from the treasury of the
State; the said representative of the executive department is to have no
vote in said bodies, but is to be entitled to be present at the meetings
of the said boards of directors, managers, trustees or visitors and to give
his views upon questions or matters under discussion or before said
boards for consideration.