ART. 4.] HOUSES OP REFUGE AND REFORMATION. 417

1886, ch. 439.

407. Said commissioners shall hold their several offices for
the period of two years, without compensation, commencing
from the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, and thereafter until their successors have been ap-
pointed and qualified; within thirty days after notification of
their appointment they shall each subscribe to an oath before the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, to impartially and
faithfully discharge their duties; a failure to so qualify on the
part of any appointee, within the time and manner named, shall
create a vacancy, which the governor shall immediately proceed
to fill by the appointment of some other skilled practical plumber
or qualified person; and in case of the death or resignation of
any of said commissioners, the governor shall fill the vacancy,
and the person so appointed shall hold office for the balance of
the term.

Ibid.

408. The said board of commissioners are empowered to make
such rules and regulations from time to time as in their judg-
ment they may deem necessary and requisite; and they shall
make a report of the condition of the board to the governor bien-
nially, on or before the first day of February, with a full state-
ment of their receipts and expenditures.

HOSPITALS.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 4, sec. 81.

409. The mayor and city council may erect or establish houses
of correction, hospitals or pest houses, within or without the city,
if necessary, and pass all ordinances for the government of the
same.

HOUSES OF REFUGE AND REFORMATION.

1878, ch. 267. 1880, ch. 111. 1880, ch. 323.

410. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are authorized
and empowered to appropriate annually towards the current
expenses of the house of refuge and St. Mary's industrial school,
any sum or sums of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars per annum, and to the boys' home society of Baltimore
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