GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS 1755

4.
The Department of Education.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 98. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 54).

140. The head of the Department of Education shall be the State Board
of Education, constituted and organized as at present; and all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions conferred by Annotated Code,
Article 77, title "Public Education," or by any other provisions of law
relating to the public school system of the State, upon the said State Board
of Education, or upon any other boards, trustees, superintendents, princi-
pals, teachers or other officials or employees therein mentioned, shall con-
tinue unaffected by this Act, except as herein provided; it being the inten-
tion that this Act shall in no way affect any of the provisions of said Article
77 of the Annotated Code, or any other provisions of law relating to the
public school system of the State or the administration thereof, save only
as herein provided.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 99. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 54).

141. On January 1, 1923, all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions of the Maryland Public Library Commission, as the same are set
forth in Sections 163 to 181, inc., of Article 77 of the Annotated Code, title
"Public Education," Chapter 15, sub-title "Public Libraries," and in any
other provisions of law, shall be transferred to and thereafter be exercised
and performed by the State Superintendent of Schools, as the lawful suc-
cessor to said Maryland Public Library Commission, to the same extent
and effect as if the said State Superintendent of Schools had been named in
said provisions of the law as the official upon whom the said rights, powers,
duties, obligations and functions were conferred. Thereupon the terms
of office of the members of the said Maryland Public Library Commission
shall cease and be at an end and the said Commission shall be and stand
abolished.

See secs. 163 and 165 of art. 77 as amended by ch. 323, of 1939, which seem to super-
sede this section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 100. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 55).

142. The Maryland School for the Deaf, incorporated under the Acts
of 1867, Chapter 247, the Maryland Training School for Boys, organized
under authority of the Acts of 1918, Chapter 300 (Art. 27, Secs. 707-
718), and the Montrose School for Girls, organized under authority of the
Acts of 1918, Chapter 303 (Art. 27, Secs. 720-728) are each, on
January 1, 1923, placed in and shall thereafter exercise their functions
as parts of the Department of Education. Each of said institutions shall
continue under the management of their respective Boards of Visitors,
Managers, or Trustees, constituted as now by law provided, and having and
continuing to exercise the same rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions, except that the same shall be exercised by said Boards, respec-
tively, under the general supervision of the State Superintendent of
Schools.¹

¹ The Maryland Training School for Colored Girls is also placed in the Department
of Education. See Art. 27, Sec. 735.