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ized and empowered on behalf of said University and for its proper use
and benefit to accept irrespective of the amount or value thereof any
donation, gift, grant or devise from any individual, association, society or
corporation, or from the United States Government, or any authorized
branch, board, commission, bureau, agency, division, sub-division or de-
partment thereof.

8.

Department of Charities.

1927, ch. 129.

108A. On June 1st, 1927, all the rights, assets, appropriations, powers,
duties, obligations and functions of the Commission known as the Eastern
Shore Tuberculosis Sanatorium Commission, as the same are set forth in
Chapter 650 of the Acts of 1912, and Chapter 326 of the Acts of 1922 or
any other provision of law, shall be transferred to and thereafter be exer-
cised and performed by the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium created by
Chapter 308 of the Acts of 1906 as the lawful successor to said Eastern
Shore Tuberculosis Sanatorium Commission to the same extent and effect
as if the said Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium created by Chapter 308
of the Acts of 1906 had been named in the provisions of said Acts or other
provisions of law, as the body upon whom the said rights, assets, appro-
priations, powers, duties, obligations and functions were conferred. There-
upon the terms of office of the members of the said Commission known as
the Eastern Shore Tuberculosis Sanatorium Commission shall cease and
be at an end, and the said Commission shall be and stand abolished.
See art. 43, sec. 249.

10.

Department of Public Works.
110.

This section referred to in deciding that act 1927, ch. 118, providing for addi-
tional license tax in respect of motor fuels to build lateral roads, was "appro-
priation" act within exception of art. 16 of Constitution—see notes to art. 16,
sec. 1. Winebrenner v. Salmon, 155 Md. 569.

Department of Engineering.

1935, ch. 555, sec. 128.

128. There is hereby created the State Department of Mechanical
Engineering, the head of which shall be the State Engineer. Said State
Engineer shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall devote his time to
the duties of such office. Said Engineer shall be subject to removal by
the Governor for official misconduct or incompetency, as in the case of
other civil officers. Said Engineer shall be appointed for two years and
the term of his office shall commence on the first Monday of May next
ensuing his appointment, provided the term of the person first appointed
shall begin October 1, 1935, and he shall hold office until his successor
is appointed and qualified. Said Engineer shall receive a salary of five
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