898 ARTICLE 70A.

sufficient to provide for one-third of all pensions paid or to be paid within
said county or city and for all expenses of administration in said county or
city. Upon the orders of the Local Board or the Department of Welfare
of Baltimore City, the County Treasurer or the City Comptroller, as the
case may be, shall pay out the amounts ordered to be paid as pensions,
under the provisions of this Article. Provided, however, that the County
Commissioners of each County and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more City shall not be obligated to pay out any sums as pensions in excess
of one-third of the total of all pensions paid or to be paid within said
county or city hereunder, except to the extent that funds may be available
in the State Treasury for reimbursement.

The State shall reimburse each County and the City of Baltimore to
the extent of two-thirds of the amount expended for relief for each person
receiving an old age pension under the provisions of this Article. Claims
for reimbursement shall be presented monthly by the County Commis-
sioners of the several Counties and by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to the State Comptroller. The amount so certified by the
County Commissioners of the several Counties and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall be paid from the State Treasury out of funds
allocated or allotted for the purpose, upon the audit and warrant of the
State Comptroller to the fiscal officers of the respective Counties and of
Baltimore City entitled thereto.

1931, ch. 114, sec. 1C. 1935, ch. 592, sec. 16.

16. There shall be a department, to be known as the Department of
Old Age Pensions and Relief of the State of Maryland, which shall be
charged with the execution of this Article. The head of said Department
shall be the Board of Old Age Pensions and Relief, consisting of five per-
sons appointed by the Governor, not more than three of whom shall be of
any one political party, who shall serve without pay but who shall receive
their actual expenses incurred in performing their duties hereunder. The
term of office of each member of said Board shall be five years, except that,
of the members first appointed, one shall be appointed for a period of five
years, one for a period of four years, one for a period of three years, one
for a period of two years and one for a period of one year. There shall be
an Administrator of Pensions and Relief, who shall be appointed by the
Board from a list certified by the State Employment Commissioner. The
qualifications of said Administrator shall be specified by the Board. He
shall receive an annual compensation as fixed and provided by the budget
and may with the approval of the Board employ investigators and clerical
and other assistants within such expense allowance as shall be fixed and
provided by the budget. The Governor may designate one member of the
Board to be the chairman thereof, or in default of such designation or in
case of vacancy, the Board shall select its own chairman.

The provisions of Senate Bill 262, ¹ Session of 1935, in the event of its

¹ Now ch. 586, acts of 1935. See art. 88A, secs. 1-8G.