1156 ARTICLE 27.

Board of Managers shall appoint the necessary officers and employees and
make rules and regulations for the government of the institution, the present
officers and employees shall continue in the discharge of their present func-
tions and duties and the existing rules and regulations shall continue in
effect; and provided further, that the possession of all property, real and
personal, which may be acquired or held by said Board of Managers of
the Maryland Training School for Boys for the uses and purposes of said
institution shall be held by said Board of Managers of the Maryland Train-
ing School for Boys as public agent and trustee for the State of Maryland.

1918, ch. 300, sec. 3.

614. That upon the expiration of each of the terms of office of the sev-
eral members of said Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School
for Boys, the Governor shall appoint bi-annually three persons, residents of
this State, for the term of six years from the first day of June next ensuing
after the date of their appointment until their successors shall have duly
qualified, and shall appoint from time to time during the existence of said
institution, as said terms expire, three persons, residents of this State, for
a full term of six years, so that the Board of Managers shall be divided into
three classes, one-third of whom shall go out of office every two years; and
the Governor shall have the power, in case of any vacancy occurring in any
of said classes from death, resignation, removal from State, failure to
qualify within thirty days after the first day of June following their
appointment, or from any cause whatever, to appoint a person or persons to
fill such vacancy or vacancies for the balance of the term of said office.

1918, ch. 300, sec. 4.

615. That 'the manner of commitments to and receiving inmates into
said institution shall be as now provided by the Laws of this State under
Sections 621, 622 and 623 of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws
of this State, known as Bagby's Article 27, Crimes and Punishments,
Annotated, as fully and absolutely as if the same were herein repeated,
recited and specifically set out and re-enacted; provided, however, that all
commitments heretofore made shall in no manner be affected by the transfer
to and taking over by the State of Maryland of said institution, but the
same shall be and remain in full force and effect and continue after said
transfer shall have been made.

1918, ch. 300, sec. 5.

616. That all Legacies now held and existing, and all Legacies that
may hereafter be given by persons dying after June 1,1918 and the acquisi-
tion by the State of Maryland as aforesaid of the property and rights of
said now existing corporation, said Maryland School for Boys, and all
appropriations for, and gifts, grants, and devises heretofore and hereafter
to be made, given, granted, devised or bequeathed to the said Maryland
School for Boys, either under and by said name, or under its former name
of the House of Refuge, shall survive and inure to the benefit of and vest
in the Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys as
appointed under the provisions of this sub-title.