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and all their expenses, including such reasonable expenses, costs and fees
as they may incur, and which they are hereby authorized to incur out of the
money so received by them, in investigating any alleged violations of the
provisions of this sub-title and in aiding in the prosecution or procuring
testimony to aid in the prosecution of any alleged violations of any of the
provisions of this sub-title, and in generally enforcing and making effective
the provisions of this sub-title; and all surplus over and above their com-
pensation and their expenditures as hereinbefore and hereinafter provided
shall be paid to the state treasurer for the use of the State.

An. Code, sec. 228. 1910, ch. 436, sec. 189 (p. 157).

288. Said commissioners shall hold their several offices for the period
of two years, commencing the first day of May, 1910, and thereafter until
their successors have been appointed and qualified; each commissioner
within thirty days after notification of his appointment shall take and sub-
scribe the oath or affirmation required by law before the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore city; every person appointed commissioner who shall
refuse or neglect to take the said oath or affirmation within the period named
shall be deemed to have refused said office, and the governor shall immedi-
ately appoint some person qualified, as provided in section 285 of this
article, to fill the vacancy thus created; each of said commissioners shall
receive the sum of five dollars for every day that he shall attend any trial
in any court of any kind in this State, or before any justice of the peace of
this State, with reference to the execution of this law or the prosecution of
any violations thereof, and for every day that he shall be present at a meet-
ing of said board for the transaction of business, and shall further receive
his reasonable traveling expenses in attending meetings of said board; pro-
vided, that said compensation shall be paid out of the fees or other sums
received by said board. The present state board of commissioners of prac-
tical plumbing, under the local laws of Baltimore city, shall continue in
office, with all the powers and duties heretofore held by them in Baltimore
city, until the commissioners authorized by this sub-title to be appointed
shall be appointed and qualified, and thereupon the duties and authorities
of said board under the local laws of Baltimore city shall be at an end, and
they shall turn over all books and papers, and any balance of money received
by them and not expended by them, to the board appointed under the pro-
visions of this sub-title; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed in
any way to affect or alter any act heretofore done under the provisions of
said local laws, or to affect the punishment for any violation of said local
laws, and all violations of said local laws before the same shall be superseded
by this law shall be punishable in the same manner as if this law had not
been enacted.

An. Code, sec. 229. 1910, ch. 436, sec. 190 (p. 158).

289. The said board of commissioners are empowered to make such
rules and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this sub-title
and for the performance of their duties hereunder, from time to time, as in
their judgment they may deem necessary and requisite; and they may