ART. 41.] QUARANTINE OF INFECTED VESSELS. 765

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 42, sec. 18. 1774, ch. 23. 1793, ch. 34.

17. Whenever the governor shall have strong grounds from
the information of physicians or otherwise to apprehend that
there is danger of any malignant, contagious disease being intro-
duced into this State from foreign parts, or from any of the
United States, he may compel any vessel coming to any of our
ports, shores, or harbors, to ride quarantine, and may forbid all
intercourse or communication, either by land or water, between
this State and the place affected, or lay such intercourse under
such regulations and restrictions as he may think advisable, and
take all measures and do all things which may appear to him,
necessary to give effect to the objects of this section.

1862, ch. 15. 1888, ch. 175, sec. 1.

18. For the purpose of properly and efficiently keeping and!
guarding the public buildings and grounds in the city of Annap-
olis, and the movable property of the State therein, the governor
shall appoint the following officers, to wit: A competent person
to be superintendent of public buildings and grounds, who shall
be paid a salary of one thousand dollars per year; a person to
take charge of the governor's mansion and the premises thereof;
at a salary of fifty dollars per month; one person to watch and
guard the public buildings at night, at a salary of fifty dollars per
month; one person to act as day watchman and policeman, and to
perform such other duties as the superintendent of public build-
ings and grounds may direct, at a salary of fifty dollars per month;
a suitable person to be keeper of the steam-house and furnaces of
the public buildings in the State house circle, and one assistant
keeper, each at a salary of fifty dollars per month, all of whom
shall hold office at the pleasure of the governor; and the treas-
urer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay the sums
mentioned in this section to the persons who shall be appointed by
the governor as aforesaid.

1888, ch. 175, sec. 2.

19. The duties of the superintendent of public buildings and
grounds shall be as follows:

1. He shall keep a full and complete inventory of all movable
property belonging to the State, in the public buildings in the city