CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1177

An. Code, sec. 632. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 632.

678. The party, with whom any contract may be made by said Board,
may be required by said Board to execute a bond to the State, with security
approved by said Board and in no wise connected with any of said institu-
tions, in such amount as the Board shall fix f or, the faithful performance
thereof; and the said Board may rescind any contract as soon as there shall
be a failure to comply therewith, and the said Board shall be authorized in
the name of the State and for the use of said Board to institute suit on said
bond for any breach thereof.

An. Code, sec. 633. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 633.

679. A majority of said Board shall be a quorum f or the transaction of
all business, and shall have full power and authority to do and perform
any and all acts that the said Board is by law authorized and empowered
to do and perform; and the said Board, or a majority thereof, may author-
ize any of its members by and in its name to execute on its behalf any and
all papers that the said Board has power and authority to execute.

An. Code, sec. 634. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 634.

680. The Board of Welfare shall employ a Warden for the Maryland
Penitentiary, and a Warden for the Maryland House of Correction. The
said Wardens shall each receive such salary as the Board may fix, and in
addition to said salary the Board may allow to each of said Wardens, sub-
sistence, fuel and a dwelling in some part of the institution under his
charge, but said Wardens shall receive no other compensation or perquisite.
The said Wardens shall each for the respective institutions employ, with
the approval of said Board, who shall fix their compensations, a physician
and such other employees as may to said Board seem necessary for the
proper management of said institutions. The said Wardens and all persons
employed by them, or any of them, shall perform their employment only
during the pleasure of said Board, and shall as employees have such duties
and authority as may from time to time be imposed and conferred upon
them or any of them by said Board. The salaries, compensation and
necessary expenses of said Wardens and of all persons employed by them,
or any of them, shall be payable as hereafter prescribed.

An. Code, sec. 635. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 635.

681. Every Warden, or other employee connected with any of said
institutions, shall in the discretion of the said Board, be required to execute
a bond to the State, with security to be approved by the said Board and in
no manner connected with any of said institutions, and in such sum as the
said Board may deem proper, conditioned for the faithful performance of
the duties required of them respectively by the laws of this State and the
rules and regulations that may be adopted from time to time by the said
Board of Welfare; and the said bond shall be filed in the Executive De-
partment of the State and a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the
State, shall be evidence in actions upon said bond, and the said Board shall