STATE AID AND CHARITIES. 2751

and equipment thereof. But such visits and inspections shall he made
at reasonably convenient hours and with reasonable regard to the estab-
lished discipline, regulations and customs of the said institution; pro-
vided that any party who shall feel aggrieved at the action of said Board
hereunder may within thirty days after the determination by said Board
appeal to any Court of General Common Law Jurisdiction in the county
or city where the office of the said Board shall be located at the time of said
appeal; and the said Court, sitting without a jury, shall thereupon fully
investigate the subject matter of the said appeal, and decide all questions
of law or fact arising in connection therewith, and affirm, reverse or modify
any determination of the said Board in the premises, and make such dis-
position of the costs of the appeal as it shall find to be just. Provided,
however, that all the monies appropriated to Charitable Institutions shall
be paid to them on a per capita basis according to rates fixed by the Board
of Public Works, which rates should represent the reasonable cost of ren-
dering the services required of the said institutions to the persons under
their care and should be impartial, fair and uniform in the case of all insti-
tutions caring for persons of substantially the same class and under con-
ditions approved by the Board of Public Works. And provided further,
that the amount which may be earned by any institution in any one year
shall not exceed the amount appropriated to it.

An. Code, see. 5. 1904, see. 5. 1900, ch. 679, see. 6. 1904, ch. 549, sec. 6. 1916, ch. 705, sec. 5.

6. The said Board shall appoint a competent person to act as its Secre-
tary, who shall be paid for his services such compensation not exceeding
twenty-two hundred dollars in any one year as may be agreed upon by the
Board. The Secretary shall also be allowed his reasonable traveling ex-
penses in attending to his duties. The Secretary shall devote his whole
time to the duties of the office; and the said Board, with the approval of
the Governor, may appoint such stenographers and clerks as a proper
performance of its duties may require. The said Board shall be provided
with suitable offices by the Board of Public Works. The salaries of the
stenographers and clerks shall be fixed by said Board with the approval of
the Governor; provided that in no case shall the total expenditures of the
said Board for administrative expenses exceed the amount appropriated
to it therefor, in each year. The said Board shall have the power to dis-
charge or remove its secretary, stenographers or clerks at any time.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1900, ch. 679, sec. 7. 1904, ch. 549, sec. 7. 1916, ch. 705, sec. 6.

7. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of this Board to inform him-
self fully as to the condition and conduct of the institutions receiving finan-
cial assistance from or having contracts with the State, the progress of
social work in this and other countries, and to report fully to the Board
at its regular and special meetings, and to perform such other duties as
the said Board may require of him. During the session of the Legislature,
he shall be in attendance upon and subject to the joint control and direc-
tion of the Finance Committee of the Senate and Ways and Means Com-
mittee of the House of Delegates; and shall perform such duties in the