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ART. XLIII] TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION. 315
culosis Sanatorium, which shall be under the control of the hoard of
managers hereinafter provided for. The said board of managers shall
consist of the governor, state treasurer and comptroller of the treasury,
for the time being, ex officio, and seven other persons who shall be
appointed by the governor, as follows: Two to serve for the term of
six years, two to serve for the term of four years, two to serve for the
term of two years, respectively, from the first day of May, nineteen
hundred and six, and the remaining member to serve for the term of
six years from the first day of May, 1908. The board so created shall
constitute a body corporate under the title of the Maryland Tubercu-
losis Sanatorium, and shall have power to make such by-laws, rules and
regulations not inconsistent with the law as they may deem necessary
and proper for the public welfare and best interests of the institution
and its inmates. It shall also have power to appoint necessary officers
for conducting said sanatorium, agents and employes who shall be
removable at its pleasure. They shall make a report of its proceedings,
receipts and expenditures, as of the 30th day of September, 1916, and
annually thereafter, to the governor of the State, who shall submit the
same, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, to the gen-
eral assembly at its next session thereafter. The governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the senate shall biennially appoint two per-
sons, resident of the State of Maryland, as managers of said sanatorium
for a term of six years dating from the first day of May succeeding
their appointment. They shall hold office until their successors are
appointed and qualified so that there shall always be six appointed
members in the board, and they shall serve without pay. They shall
be chosen with a view to their intelligence, experience and character,
without reference to ecclesiastical or party ties, and the governor shall
also have power, in case of any vacancy occurring in the board from
death, resignation, removal from the State or any other cause, to
appoint a person to fill such vacancy for the balance of the unexpired
term of the manager whose position becomes vacant.*
1918, ch. 148, sec. 1A.
199A. In addition to all the powers and duties heretofore given
and imposed by law to and upon the Maryland Tuberculosis Sana-
torium, and the Board of Managers in control thereof, the said Board
of Managers for and in the name of the Maryland Tuberculosis Sana-
torium, shall make suitable and appropriate provision for the establish-
ment and maintenance, within this State, of proper facilities for the
care and treatment of colored persons, subject to the rules now existing
or hereafter adopted by said Board, who are bona fide residents of the
*The act of 1916, chapter 628, provides for the establishment in Montgomery
County of a tuberculosis hospital for indigent persons and for "The Tuberculosis
Commission of Montgomery County."
Section 2 of the act of 1916, chapter 497, provides for the repeal of all acts or
parts of acts inconsistent with said act of 1916, to the extent of such inconsist-
ency.
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