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line of his employment and make such investigations and reports as may
be imposed upon him by these Committees. For this, purpose, the said
Secretary shall be furnished with a suitable office in the State House, dur-
ing the sessions of the Legislature.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1900, ch. 679, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 549, sec. 8.

8. The sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds not otherwise
appropriated for each of the fiscal years ending respectively on the thir-
tieth day of September, 1905, and the thirtieth day of September, 1906,
for the payment of all the salaries and other expenses made necessary by
this act, and the treasurer of the State shall, upon warrant of the comp-
troller of the treasury, pay the said sums of money herein appropriated
for the objects and purposes hereinbefore specified to or upon the order
of the president of said board.

An. Code, sec. 7A. 1916, ch. 126.

9. All laws, acts and resolutions, or parts thereof, heretofore at any
time passed or enacted by any General Assembly of the State of Maryland,
whereby and to the extent that any appropriation or appropriations have
been made payable, in whole or in part, out of the funds of the general
treasury of the State, for any of the purposes hereinafter named, which
said laws, acts and resolutions, or parts thereof, by their terms or provi-
sions and by their own force make such appropriations, respectively,
annual and continuing, and available and payable out of the funds of the
general treasury of the State in each and every year succeeding their pas-
sage and enacted,1 respectively, or for each and every year during a period
of years succeeding their passage and enactment, respectively, without the
necessity in either case of any other or further appropriation law, act or
resolution; and which said laws, acts and resolutions or parts thereof,
make such annual or continuing appropriations for any of the following
purposes, to wit: (a) To or for the use, benefit, needs or purposes of any
and all universities, colleges, academies, schools, high schools, normal
schools, seminaries, societies and other institutions devoted, in whole or
in part, to teaching, learning, training, or education of every and every
kind whatsoever; (b) to or for the use, benefit, compensation, expenses,
needs or purposes of any and all State, county and city boards, commissions,
bureaus, departments, officers, officials or employees, including pensions
to those who have been such officers, officials or employees; (c) to or for
the use, benefits, needs or purposes of any and all corporations, bodies
politic, associations or societies; that all such laws, acts and resolutions
be and the same hereby are each and all respectively repealed, to the
extent that the same make or provide the annual or continuing appropria-
tions above mentioned, which it is the intent of this section to end and
abolish, so far as such appropriations may not be protected from repeal
by any of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Pro-
vided that this section shall not apply to any revenues or funds which are

1 Evidently a typographical error in the act.