WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1427

title "State Department of Public Welfare," and Sections
281 to 286, both inclusive, of Article 43, title "Health,"
sub-title "Tuberculosis," of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Ed.), and to add a new Section to said Article
43, to be known as Section 94A, to follow immediately
after Section 94 of said Article, abolishing the "Maryland
Tuberculosis Sanatorium," and transferring the powers
and duties of said Corporation to the State Board of
Health.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 152 of Article 41, title "Governor-Executive
and Administrative Departments," sub-title "State De-
partment of Public Welfare," and Sections 281 to 286, both
inclusive, of Article 43, title "Health," sub-title "Tuber-
culosis," of the Annotated Code of Maryland 1939 Ed.), be
and the same are hereby repealed, and that a new Section
be and it is hereby added to said Article 43, to be known
as Section 94A, to follow immediately after Section 94 of
said Article, and to read as follows:

94A. The body corporate, heretofore created under the
title "Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium" is hereby
abolished, and all property, real and personal of every kind,
held or administered by it, is hereby transferred and con-
veyed unto the State of Maryland and all functions, pow-
ers and duties of said corporation are hereby transferred
to the State Board of Health. The State Board of Health
shall have control and supuervision of all State tuberculosis
sanatoria and shall have power to make such by-laws,
rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as it may
deem necessary for the public welfare and the best in-
terests of said institutions. It shall have power to appoint,
subject to the provisions of Article 64A, all necessary of-
ficers and employees for the proper conduct of said in-
stitutions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any appropria-
tions made to the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatoria un-
expended at the time this Act becomes effective shall be
transferred to the State Board of Health and used for the
purpose or purposes for which appropriated.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 16, 1947.