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in the Treasury of the State not otherwise appropriated, to carry into
effect the provisions of this sub-title.

Mothers' Relief.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1916, ch. 670, sec. 1.

21. There is hereby created a Board to be known as the Board for
Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City, to consist of three members, not
more than two of whom shall be of the same sex, to be appointed by the
Mayor of Baltimore City for a term of four years as hereinafter provided
and until their successors have been appointed and qualified. The Board
for Mothers' Relief shall sit at such times and as often as the business
before it justifies and if any member shall absent himself or herself from
five (5) consecutive meetings without giving a satisfactory excuse to the
Board, his or her office shall become vacant and the Mayor shall make an
appointment to fill such vacancy. The salary of the members of the Board
shall be five dollars ($5) per day for each member, for each and every
day the Board shall sit, and in addition, the necessary expenses incurred
in the discharge of his or her duties.

Within thirty days after April 18, 1916, the 'Mayor of Baltimore City
shall appoint one member for a period of two years, one for a period of
three years, and one for a period of four years, and thereafter as these
terms expire, the Mayor shall make such appointment for a term of four
years. The Board shall choose from among its members a Chairman, a
Vice-Chairman and a Treasurer.

The Board shall have the power to employ a Secretary, and a Stenog-
rapher. The salary of the Secretary shall be Twelve Hundred dollars
($1,200) per year and that of the Stenographer One Thousand dollars
($1,000) per year.

The duties of the Secretary and Stenographer shall be to conduct the
correspondence of the Board, keep a record of its business, assist in
investigations of applications, and keep on file applications and such other
business as the Board may direct. The Board for Mothers' Relief for Balti-
more City shall have an office allotted it in the City Hall of Baltimore
City, in the Court House of Baltimore City or in such other municipal
building as may be obtained.

It shall be the duty of the Board of Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City
to investigate every application for relief, to hear all witnesses for appli-
cants and to carry out the provisions of this sub-title as embodied in all
its sections and see to the administration of this sub-title in all its particu-
lars as relating to Baltimore City.

Each member of the Board shall for the purpose contemplated by this
sub-title have power to issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses,
administer oaths, certify to official acts, take depositions within or without
the State of Maryland as now provided by law, compel the production of
pertinent books, payrolls, papers, records, documents and testimony. Pro-
vided, however, that instead of appointing the Board for Mothers' Relief
of Baltimore City, as provided in this Section, the Mayor and City Council