1628 ARTICLE 43.

Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Horses—Commission.

An. Code, sec. 192. 1904, sec. 155. 1902, ch. 181, sec. 1.

242. The governor is authorized' to appoint a commission to be known
as the commission to investigate the disease in horses called Cerebro-Spinal
meningitis, to consist of not less than five persons, of whom the pathologist
of Johns Hopkins University and the veterinarian of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College shall be two, whose duty it shall he to investigate the
cause, origin, treatment, prevention and cure in the State of Maryland of
the disease in horses called Cerebro-Spinal meningitis.

Re. live stock sanitary board and other laws relative to live stock, see art. 58.

An. Code, sec. 193. 1904, sec. 156. 1902, ch. 181, sec. 2.

243. The members of the said commission shall serve without pay,
except expenses actually incurred, and shall continue in office for a term of
two years from date of their appointment. They shall meet in Baltimore
city within thirty days after the date of their appointment and thereafter
at such times and places as may be necessary. They shall fill by a majority
vote any vacancy that may occur in their membership, and shall report
the results of their, investigations not later than January 1, 1904, to the
governor of this State.

An. Code, sec. 194. 1904, sec. 157. 1902, ch. 181, sec. 3.

244. For the purpose of defraying necessary expenses, including print-
ing, rent, postage, traveling and clerical assistance, the sum of two thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to be paid
by the treasurer of the State upon warrant of the comptroller at such times
and in such sums as may be authorized by the commission.1

Tuberculosis.

An. Code, sec. 195. 1904, sec. 158. 1902, ch. 451, sec. 1. 1904, ch. 476.

245. The governor of the State is authorized to appoint five persons,
three of whom shall be physicians, who, by virtue of such appointment,
shall constitute a commission to be known as the tuberculosis commission,
whose duty it shall be to investigate the prevalence, distribution and causes
of human tuberculosis in the State of Maryland, to determine its relations
to the public health and welfare, and to devise ways and means for restrict-
ing and controlling said disease, and to investigate and report upon the
proper construction, cost, equipment, maintenance and location of a sana-
torium for the treatment of tuberculosis.
See sec. 94, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 196. 1904, sec. 159. 1902, ch. 451, sec. 2. 1904, ch. 476.

246. The members of said commission shall serve without pay, except
expenses actually incurred, and shall continue in office for a term of two

1 Commission and unused appropriation continued by act of 1904, ch. 293; also by act
of 1906, ch. 482, which latter act extends the powers of commission to other diseases of
horses and cattle, to include an investigation of methods of immunization of cattle
against contagious diseases.