1172 ARTICLE 27.

be $4,000 per annum, and the associated members shall serve without

Pay-
Acts of 1916, ch. 556, and 1918, ch. 354, held valid and not, to impair obligation

of a contract for convict labor made prior to their adoption. Specific performance;

injunction. Nature and scope of police power. Cases reviewed. Jones Hollow Ware

Co. v. State Rds. Comn., 134 Md. 104.
As to the Baltimore city jail, see sec. 675.
See art. 41, sec. 106.

An. Code, sec. 624. 1916, ch. 556. sec. 624. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 60). 1924, ch. 283, see. 2.

662. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office,
each member of said Board shall take an oath that he will well and faith-
fully execute and perform all and singular the duties appertaining to his
office according to the laws of the State and the rules and regulations
adopted in accordance therewith. The associate members of the Board of
Welfare shall not be required to give bond for the faithful performance
of their duties, but the Director of Welfare shall be required to give bond
for the faithful performance of his duties in the penalty of $25,000, and the
treasurer of said Board, if they shall select a treasurer other than the
Director of Welfare, shall give bond for the faithful performance of his
duties in the penalty of such sum as the Board of Welfare may fix, but not
less than $10,000. The Board of Welfare shall have power to select a treas-
urer and such treasurer need not be a member of the Board of Welfare.
Every such bond, when duly executed and approved, shall be recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, and certified copies, under
seal of said Court, may be used in evidence in any Court in this State. It
shall ,be the duty of the Governor at all times, when in his opinion the
security or securities of the Director of Welfare or the Treasurer of said
Board have become or are likely to become invalid or insufficient, to demand
and require such official forthwith to renew his bond to the State of Mary-
land, with security or securities to be approved by the Governor, in the
penalty and according to the form prescribed in this Section. Any mem-
ber of said Board, who shall fail to take oath and any official failing to
give bond with security or securities aforesaid within thirty days from the
date of his appointment, or who shall fail to renew bond with security or
securities as aforesaid within thirty days after the same shall have been
demanded and required by the Governor, shall be deemed to be guilty of
neglect of duty and shall be removable as heretofore provided. The cost
of any bond, given by any official under this Section, shall be taken to be a
part of the necessary expenses of said Board and shall be payable as
hereafter provided.

An. Code, sec. 625. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 625.

663. The Board of Welfare shall have power to employ, and remove at
pleasure, a Secretary with such duties and at such salary or compensation
as the said Board may prescribe; and the said Board shall have power to em-
ploy, and remove at pleasure, such other employees as said Board may deem
necessary, with such duties and at such salaries or compensation as the said