1518 ARTICLE 41.

Service by Sections 1 to 4, inc., of Article 96A of the Annotated Code,
title "Weather Service—State," said Board being composed of the Presi-
dent of the Johns Hopkins University, the President of the University of
Maryland and the Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, shall be
transferred to and thereafter be exercised and performed by the Regents
of the University of Maryland, through the State Geologist, as the lawful
successors to said Board of Government, to the same extent and effect as
if the said Regents of the University of Maryland had been named in said
sections of the law as the body upon whom the said rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions were conferred. Thereupon the said Board of
Government shall 'cease and be at an end.

6.
The Department of Militia.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 59).

105. The head of the Department of Militia shall be the Adjutant
General of the State, having and exercising the rights, powers, duties,
obligations and. functions now or hereafter conferred by law.
As to the militia, see art. 65.

7.
The Department of Welfare.1

1922, ch. 29 (p. 59).

106. The Department of Welfare is hereby established.

8.
The Department of Charities.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 63).

107. The head of the Department of Charities shall be the Board of
State Aid and Charities, constituted and organized as at present, and hav-
ing and exercising the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions
now or hereafter conferred by law. The Chairman of the said Board
shall be known as the Director of Charities.
As to state aid and charities, see art. 88A.

1922, ch. 29 (p. 63).

108. The Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium Commission and the
Pine Bluff Sanatorium, continuing under their present forms of manage-
ment, with the same rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions, shall
annually submit their financial reports to the Department of Charities.

1 See sec. 661, et seq., of art. 27.