GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1499

Maryland Flag.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 26. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 1.

31. The flag heretofore and now in use and known as the Maryland
flag is hereby legalized and adopted as the flag of the State of Maryland,
which said flag is particularly described, as to coloring and arrangement,
as follows: Quartered—the first and fourth quarters being paly of six
pieces, or and sable, a bend dexter counterchanged; the second and third,
quarterly, argent and gules, a cross bottony countersigned; that is to say,
the first and fourth quarters consist of six vertical bars alternately gold
and black with a diagonal band on which the colors are reversed, the sec-
ond and third consisting of a quartered field of red and white, charged
with a Greek cross, its arms terminating in trefoils, with the coloring
transported, red being on the white ground and white on the red, and all
being as represented upon the escutcheon of the present great seal of
Maryland.

An. Code, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 27. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 2.

32. The flag of Maryland shall be displayed from the state house at
Annapolis, Maryland, continuously during the session of the general as-
sembly, and on such other public occasions as the governor of the State
shall order and direct, the flag always to be so arranged upon the flag-staff
as to have the black stripe on the diagonal bands of the first quartering at
the top of the staff as represented in the illustration of the Maryland flag
in " Chronicles of Colonial Maryland."

Maryland Flower.

An. Code, sec. 27A. 1918, ch. 458, sec. 27A.

33. His Excellency, the Governor of Maryland, is hereby empowered
and directed to declare by proclamation on the first day of June, in the
year 1918, the Rudbeckia hirta or Black-Eyed Susan as the Floral Emblem
of the State of Maryland.

Representatives at Meetings of State Institutions.

An. Code, sec. 28. 1906, ch. 740.

34. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint,
from time to time, one or more discreet persons to attend meetings of the
boards of directors, managers, trustees or visitors of corporations and in-
stitutions receiving financial assistance from the treasury of the State; the
said representative of the executive department is to have no vote in said
bodies, but is to be entitled to be present at the meetings of the said boards
of directors, managers, trustees or visitors and to give his views upon
questions or matters under discussion or before said boards for con-
sideration.

Publication of Laws.

1922, ch. 444.

35. It shall be the duty of the Governor promptly after his approval
of bills passed by the General Assembly, before delivering the same, as