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appointment shall take effect, except in the case of an appointment to fill
a vacancy. No person shall be eligible to appointment as a member of said
board unless he has been continuously for five years last past engaged in
the occupation of a barber with this State.
See notes to sec. 281.

An. Code, sec. 210. 1904, sec. 171. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 2.

270. Said board so appointed and its successors shall be known by the
name " Board of Barber Examiners of the State of Maryland." Every
person so appointed to serve on said board shall receive a certificate of his
appointment from the governor of the State of Maryland, and within ten
days after receiving such certificate shall take, subscribe and file in the
office of the secretary of state the constitutional oath of office. '

An. Code, sec. 211. 1904, sec. 172. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 3.

271. Each member of such board shall receive as compensation the sum
of five dollars for each day necessarily and actually engaged in the per-
formance of his duty as a member of said board, and three cents for each
mile necessary and actually traveled by him in attending the meetings of
said board, which sum or sums shall be paid out of any moneys in the hands
of the treasurer of said board.

An. Code, sec. 212. 1904, sec. 173. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 4.

272. The first meeting of said board shall be held within thirty days
after their appointment as aforesaid at a time and place to be fixed by a
majority thereof, who shall give suitable notice thereof to all the members
of said board. At such meeting the board may adopt a common seal, and
shall elect from its members a president, a secretary and treasurer. The
treasurer shall receive all fees paid for licenses or certificates, and shall
keep a record thereof and of all disbursements of said board in a book to
be kept for that purpose. The treasurer shall not pay out or disburse any
of the moneys received by him except upon the order of the board. Before
entering upon the performance of his duties, the treasurer shall file with
the state comptroller a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the people of the
State of Maryland, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved
by the state comptroller, conditioned that he will well and truly pay over
all moneys received by him, according to law and in compliance with the
provisions of this sub-title, and that he will otherwise faithfully discharge
the duties of his office.

An. Code, sec. 213. 1904, sec. 174. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 5.

273. The, board of examiners shall have power to appoint sub-boards of
examiners in such cities and villages of this State as they in their judgment
shall deem necessary. Said sub-boards shall each consist of one master
barber and one journeyman barber, and shall possess the same qualifications,
receive the same compensation, and have the same power as the said board
of examiners of the State of Maryland, while conducting the examination
hereinafter provided for; said sub-boards shall be subject at all times to the