1918 STATE AID AND CHARITIES. [ART. 88A

have the power to discharge or remove its secretary at any
time by a majority vote of all its members.

1900, ch. 679, sec 7. 1904, ch. 549, sec. 7.

6. It shall be the duty of the secretary of this board to
inform himself fully as to the condition and conduct of the
institutions coming under the supervision of the board, and to
report fully to the board at its regular and special meetings,
and to perform such other duties as may be required of him.
During the sessions of the legislature he shall be in attendance
upon and subject to the joint control and direction of the
finance committee of the senate and the ways and means com-
mittee of the house of delegates and shall perform such duties
in the line of his employment and make such investigations
and reports as may be imposed upon him by these committees.

Ibid. sec. 6. Ibid. sec. 8.

7. The sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out
of any funds not otherwise appropriated for each of the fiscal
years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of September,
1905, and the thirtieth day of September, 1906, for the pay-
ment of all the salaries and other expenses made necessary by
this act, and the treasurer of the State shall, upon warrant of
the comptroller of the treasury, pay the said sums of money
herein appropriated for the objects and purposes hereinbefore
specified to or upon the order of the president of said board.

Burial of Soldiers.

1904, ch. 663, sec. 1.

8. The expenses of the interment of the bodies of deceased
soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the United States
or Confederate States army or navy between the years 1861-
1865, and were honorably discharged, shall be paid by the
State of Maryland; provided, that the expense of such inter-
ment shall not exceed in any one case more than thirty-five
dollars; and provided, that said expense shall only be borne
by the State of Maryland in the event that such deceased
soldier, sailor or marine left no estate, and that the death
occured in the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 2.

9. The comptroller of the treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer of the State to