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necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such clerical help.

Budget and Procurement.

1939, ch. 64, sec. 30A.

58. The Department of Budget and Procurement, constituted and
organized as provided by law, shall be assigned to the Executive Depart-
ment, and under the supervision and direction of the Director thereof
shall have and exercise all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and func-
tions conferred upon it by law.

Maryland Flag.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 26. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 1.

59. The flag heretofore and now in use and known as the Maryland
flag is hereby legalized and adopted as the flag of the State of Maryland,
which said flag is particularly described, as to coloring and arrangement,
as follows: Quartered—the first and fourth quarters being paly of six
pieces, or and sable, a bend dexter counterchanged; the second and third,
quarterly, argent and gules, a cross bottony countersigned; that is to say,
the first and fourth quarters consist of six vertical bars alternately gold
and black with a diagonal band on which the colors are reversed, the sec-
ond and third consisting of a quartered field of red and white, charged
with a Greek cross, its arms terminating in trefoils, with the coloring
transported, red being on the white ground and white on the red, and all
being as represented upon the escutcheon of the present great seal of
Maryland.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 32. 1912, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 27. 1904, ch. 48, sec. 2.

60. The flag of Maryland shall be displayed from the state house at
Annapolis, Maryland, continuously during the session of the general as-
sembly, and on such other public occasions as the governor of the State
shall order and direct, the flag always to be so arranged upon the flag-staff
as to have the black stripe on the diagonal bands of the first quartering at
the top of the staff as represented in the illustration of the Maryland nag
in "Chronicles of Colonial Maryland."

Maryland Flower.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 33. 1912, sec. 27A. 1918, ch. 458, sec. 27A.

61. His Excellency, the Governor of Maryland, is hereby empowered
and directed to declare by proclamation on the first day of June, in the
year 1918, the Rudbeckia hirta or Black-Eyed Susan as the Floral Emblem
of the State of Maryland.

Maryland State Song.

1939, ch. 451.

62. The poem composed by James Ryder Randall, in the year 1861,
entitled "Maryland! My Maryland!", heretofore and now sung to the tune
of "Lauriger Horatius" and known as the Maryland State Song, is hereby
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