STATE AID AND CHARITIES. 1121

against any corporation, association, institution or agency engaged in
charitable or social welfare activities, receiving financial assistance from
the State or with which the State has contracts and cause a copy of such
charges to be served on such corporation, association, institution or agency;
and shall have power to issue summonses for witnesses and documents,
which summonses shall be duly served, as are other similar writs, by any
sheriff to whom the same shall be directed, and to administer oaths, and
take testimony which it shall cause to be transcribed and included in its
report. The Board may, if in its judgment the facts warrant, suspend
or revoke any licenses issued to such corporation, association, institution
or agency and may order the cessation of any future appropriation thereto.
And the said Board shall have further power to visit, in person or by its
Executive Secretary or other employees, any State-aided institution, organ-
ization or agency engaged in welfare activities, and thoroughly to inspect
the management, buildings and equipment thereof; but such visits and
inspections shall be made at reasonably convenient hours and with rea-
sonable regard to the established discipline, regulations and customs of
the said institution, organization or agency.

1935. ch. 586, sec. 7.

7. All monies appropriated to charitable institutions, organizations or
agencies shall be paid to them on a per capita basis according to rates
fixed by the Board, which shall be impartial, fair and uniform in the case
of all institutions, organizations or agencies caring for persons of sub-
stantially the same class. Provided, however, that the amount to which
any institution, organization or agency may be entitled on account of
services rendered on a per capita basis in any one year shall not exceed
the amount appropriated to it.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1900, ch. 679, sec. 6. 1904, ch. 549,
sec. 6. 1916, ch 705, sec. 5. 1933, ch. 222, sec. 6. 1935, ch. 586, sec. 8.

8. The said Board shall appoint a competent person to act as its
Executive Secretary who shall be paid for his services such compensation
as may be provided for in the State budget upon the recommendation of
the Board. The Executive Secretary shall be a competent person having
adequate training and practical experience in social welfare and relief
work; and in making said appointment, the Board shall be governed by-
Article 64A of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland. The
Executive Secretary shall devote his whole time to the duties of the office.
The said Board may appoint such other employees as a proper perform-
ance of its duties may require. In no case shall the total expenditures
of the said Board for administrative expenses exceed the amount appro-
priated therefor in the State budget.

1935, ch. 586, sec. 8A.

8A. The appointment and removal of all paid personnel under this
Article shall be governed by the provisions of Article 64A of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, but in the case of the Department of
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