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ART. LXXXVIIIA] MOTHER'S RELIEF. 671
The Board shall have the power to employ a Secretary, and a Stenog-
rapher. The salary of the Secretary shall be Twelve Hundred dollars
($1,200) per year and that of the Stenographer One Thousand dollars
($1,000) per year.
The duties of the Secretary and Stenographer shall be to conduct the
correspondence of the Board, keep a record of its business, assist in
investigations of applications, and keep on file applications and such
other business as the Board may direct. The Board for Mothers'
Relief for Baltimore City shall have an office allotted it in the City Hall
of Baltimore City, in the Court House of Baltimore City or in such
other municipal building as may be obtained.
It shall be the duty of the Board of Mothers' Relief for Baltimore
City to investigate every application for relief, to hear all witnesses
for applicants and to carry out the provisions of this sub-title as embod-
ied in all its sections and see to the administration of this sub-title in
all its particulars as relating to Baltimore City.
Each member of the Board shall for the purpose contemplated by
this sub-title have power to issue subpoanas. compel the attendance of
witnesses, administer oaths, certify to official acts, take depositions
within or without the State of Maryland as now provided by law,
compel the production of pertinent books, payrolls, papers, recordsi,
documents and testimony. Provided, however, that instead of appoint-
ing the Board for Mothers' Relief of Baltimore City, as provided in
this Section, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may, in its dis-
cretion, devolve the duties imposed by this sub-title upon said Board for
Mothers' Relief upon the Supervisors of City Charities of Baltimore
City.*
1916, ch. 670, sec. 2.
20. Nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to affect or interfere
with the provisions of the laws of Maryland as now existing relating to
the jurisdiction of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the Circuit
Courts of the State of Maryland, or the Juvenile Court of Baltimore
City, in regard to the custody and control of infants.
Any mother of a child or children under the age of fourteen (14)
years, whose husband is dead, and who is unable to support it or them
and maintain her home, may present a written application or petition
for relief to the County Commissioners of the County wherein she
resides, or to the Board for Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City, if she
resides in Baltimore City.
Such application or petition shall be verified by three witnesses and
shall set forth the following:
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*Section 13 of the act of 1916, chapter 670, provides that if said act should
be held invalid as to the counties or any of them, it shall remain in full force
and effect as to Baltimore City. Section 12 repeals all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with the act of 1916, chapter 670
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