1890 ARTICLE 43

An. Code, 1924, sec. 288. 1912, sec; 228. 1910, ch. 436; sec. 189 (p. 157).

323. Said commissioners shall hold their several offices for the period
of two years, commencing the first day of May, 1910, and thereafter until
their successors have been appointed and qualified; each commissioner
within thirty days after notification of his appointment shall take and sub-
scribe the oath or affirmation required by law before the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore City; every person appointed commissioner who shall
refuse or neglect to take the said oath or affirmation within the period named
shall be deemed to have refused said office, and the governor shall immedi-
ately appoint some person qualified, as provided in section 320 of this
article, to fill the vacancy thus created; each of said commissioners shall
receive the sum of five dollars for every day that he shall attend any trial
in any court of any kind in this State, or before any justice of the peace of
this State, with reference to the execution of this law or the prosecution of
any violations thereof, and for every day that he shall be present at a meet-
ing of said board for the transaction of business, and shall further receive
his reasonable traveling expenses in attending meetings of said board; pro-
vided, that said compensation shall be paid out of the fees or other sums
received by said board. The present state board of commissioners of prac-
tical plumbing, under the local laws of Baltimore City, shall continue in
office, with all the powers and duties heretofore held by them in Baltimore
City, until the commissioners authorized by this sub-title to be appointed
shall be appointed and qualified, and thereupon the duties and authorities
of said board under the local laws of Baltimore City shall be at air end, and
they shall turn over all books and papers, and any balance of money received
by them and not expended by them, to the board appointed under the pro-
visions of this sub-title; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed in
any way to affect or alter any act heretofore done under the provisions of
said local laws, or to affect the punishment for any violation of said local
laws, and all violations of said local laws before the same shall be superseded
by this law shall be punishable in the same manner as if this law had not
been enacted.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 289. 1912, sec. 229. 1910, ch. 436, sec. 190 (p. 158).

324. The said board of commissioners are empowered to make such
rules and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this sub-title
and for the performance of their duties hereunder, from time to time, as in
their judgment they may deem necessary and requisite; and they may
provide for the examination of applicants for journeyman plumbers' certifi-
cates or permits, and for the issuing of certificates or permits to journeyman
plumbers after passing such examination as said commissioners may deem
proper, said commissioners designating them either "certificates" or "per-
mits," as they may deem proper, and they may provide for the issuing of
permits to apprentices, so that, however, said journeyman plumbers and said
apprentices shall be authorized to work only under the direction and con-
trol of a duly certified master plumber; and that said certificate or permits
shall be so framed as to show that said journeyman plumbers and said ap-
prentices are authorized to work only as above provided. Said board may
demand and receive from each journeyman plumber the sum of two dollars
at the time of issuing of the first certificate to said journeyman plumber,
and the sum of one dollar for the renewal thereof each and every year