HEALTH 1879

Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and shall have power to make such by-laws, rules
and regulations not inconsistent with the law as they may deem necessary
and proper for the public welfare and best interests of the institution and
its inmates. It shall also have power to appoint necessary officers for con-
ducting said sanatorium, agents and employes who shall be removable at
its pleasure. They shall make a report of its proceedings, receipts and
expenditures, as of the 30th day of September, 1916, and annually there-
after, to the governor of the State, who shall submit the same, with such
recommendations as he may deem proper, to the general assembly at its
next session thereafter. The governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the senate shall biennially appoint two persons, resident of the State of
Maryland, as managers of said sanatorium for a term of six years dating
from the first day of May succeeding their appointment. They shall hold
office until their successors are appointed and qualified so that there shall
always be six appointed members in the board, and they shall serve without
pay. They shall be chosen with a view to their intelligence, experience and
character, without reference to ecclesiastical or party ties, and the governor
shall also have power, in case of any vacancy occurring in the board from
death, resignation, removal from the State or any other cause, to appoint
a person to fill such vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term of the
manager whose position becomes vacant.¹
See Art. 41, sec. 152.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 250. 1912, sec. 199A. 1918, ch. 148, sec. 1A.

285. In addition to all the powers and duties heretofore given and
imposed by law to and upon the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and
the Board of Managers in control thereof, the said Board of Managers for
and in the name of the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium, shall make
suitable and appropriate provision for the establishment and maintenance,
within this State, of proper facilities for the care and treatment of colored
persons, subject to the rules now existing or hereafter adopted by said
Board, who are bona fide residents of the State of Maryland, and suffering
from tuberculosis; and to that end said Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium
shall have power to accept and acquire by purchase, gift or lease, land, or
lands, suitable as sites for sanatoria for the reception, care, and maintenance
of said tubercular colored patients, and to erect and equip necessary build-
ings thereon; and where and when advantageous, to agree and arrange with
existing hospitals, and with hospitals hereafter organized and built, for the
establishment of suitable buildings, wards or other appropriate facilities
for the reception and treatment of such tubercular colored patients, and
their care and maintenance in this State, subject to the supervision of the
said Board of Managers of the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and
under such terms and conditions as said Board shall deem wise; and by
purchase, gift or lease to acquire any existing hospital or hospitals, and
parts thereof, with its or their furnishings, apparatus and equipment, as
may be desirable, and reasonably suited to the maintenance, care and treat-
ment of said tubercular colored patients.

1937, ch. 126.

286. There is hereby created a Board of Visitors for the Sanatorium
for colored persons at Henryton, in Carroll County, the said Board, as

¹ Sec. 2 of act of 1916, ch. 497, provides for repeal of all acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with said act of 1916, to the extent of such inconsistency.