1730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 698

accordance with the rules of the State Department of Public
Welfare, as well as work relief and services to families and
individuals, and the care of neglected, dependent and de-
linquent children, which care shall include the rendering of
probation service to juvenile courts or other courts having
jurisdiction over minors.

(b) Administrative costs of the County Welfare Boards for
the. purpose of this section shall be paid out of funds derived
from local sources or out of allotments from State or Federal
funds, or any of them, as the State Department of Pub-
lic Welfare may prescribe. The County Commissioners of
each county and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are
hereby empowered and directed to levy for or appropriate
such funds, from time to time, as may be necessary for this
purpose.

13. (a) Each County Welfare Board shall consist of seven
persons, one of whom shall be a County Commissioner of the
county in which such Board is to function. Said County Com-
missioner shall be an ex-officio member of the Board, and each
year the Board of County Commissioners shall designate which
of its members shall so serve. All members of the County
Boards shall serve without pay, except that they may receive
reimbursement for their expenses incurred in attending meet-
ings.

(b) The members of each County Board, except the County
Commissioner serving thereon, shall be appointed for six-year
terms, to expire on May 31st of the respective years of ex-
piration, or until their successors are appointed. Upon the
expiration of a six-year term, the appointee shall be ineligible
for re-appointment to a second term immediately succeeding
the first. Any vacancy occurring for any reason during a
term shall be filled by appointment for the remainder of the
unexpired term.

(c) The members of each County Welfare Board, other than
the County Commissioner serving thereon, shall be appointed
by the Board of County Commissioners from a list submitted
by the State Department of Public Welfare as hereinafter pro-
vided, after approval by the State Board. In case of a vacancy
occurring in the membership of any County Board by reason
of expiration of the term or otherwise, the Board of County
Commissioners of the county concerned shall forthwith pro-
ceed to appoint the requisite member or members from a list
to be submitted by the State Department of Public Welfare,
after consultation with the Board of County Commissioners
of the county concerned, which list shall contain twice the