GOVEENOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1495

The President of the State Board of Agriculture and of the University
of Maryland

The Director of Welfare

The Director of Charities

The Director of Health

The Director of Public Works

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles

The Police Commissioner of Baltimore City

The Conservation Commissioner

The Commissioner of State Employment and Registration.

The said Advisory Council shall meet with the Governor, from time to
time, for the consideration of general State policies, finances, departmental
and institutional work and conditions.

Governor.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1853, ch. 131, sec. 1. 1884, ch. 78.
15. The great seal of the State of Maryland shall he in the custody of
the secretary of the state, but the governor shall have the control and use
thereof whenever necessary for any purpose provided for by the constitution
and laws or when needed to authenticate communications between this
State and the United States, the States and territories thereof, and foreign
States; in all which cases the great seal shall be used; and the secretary of
the senate and the chief clerk of the house of delegates, respectively, shall
have unrestricted access to and use of the great seal, for the purpose -of
affixing the same to bills which shall have passed the general assembly as
required by the constitution, preparatory to presenting the same to the
governor for his approval; every bill, when passed by the general assembly,
shall be returned to the house in which the same originated, and shall, as
soon thereafter as practicable, be sealed with the great seal by the secretary
of the senate or chief clerk of the house of delegates, as the case may be, and
presented to the governor for his approval; and in his presence such clerical
officer having custody of the same shall make on the back of every such bill
a memorandum in writing of the day and hour when the same was pre-
sented to the governor for his approval; and such officer so presenting the
same shall sign his name to such memorandum, and shall make a corre-
sponding entry upon the journal of the house in which the same originated;
in case of the sickness or necessary absence of the governor from the seat of
government of the State, during the session of the general assembly, it shall
be lawful for the governor to designate some person or persons to act for him
in receiving bills presented for his approval; which designation shall be in
writing addressed to the presiding officers of the two houses of the general
assembly, respectively, and the same, when so received, shall be entered at
length upon the journal of each house; all bills passed by the general assem-
bly and sealed with the great seal which shall be presented as aforesaid to
the person or persons so designated by the governor, and during the period