ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 379

of the Governor shall cause charges to be formulated
against any corporation, association, institution or agency
receiving financial assistance from the State or with which
the State has contracts and cause a copy of such charges
to be served on such corporation, association, institution
or agency; and shall have power to issue a summons' for
witnesses and documents, which summons shall be duly
served, as are other similar writs, .by any sheriff to whom
the same shall be directed, and to administer oaths, and
take testimony which it shall cause to be transcribed and
included in its report. And the said Board shall have fur-
ther power to visit, in person or by its Executive Secretary
or other employees, any institution, organization or agency
receiving financial assistance from the State, or with which
the State has contracts, and to thoroughly inspect the man-
agement, buildings and equipment thereof. But such visits
and inspections shall be made at reasonably convenient
hours and with reasonable regard to the established dis-
cipline, regulations and customs of the said institution,
organization or agency; provided that any party who shall
feel aggrieved at the action of said Board hereunder may
within thirty days after the determination by said Board
appeal to any Court of General Common Law Jurisdiction
in the county or city where the office of the said Board shall
be located at the time of said appeal; and the said Court,
sitting without a jury, shall thereupon fully investigate the
subject matter of the said appeal, and decide all questions
of law or fact arising in connection therewith, and affirm,
reverse or modify any determination of the said Board in
the premises, and make such disposition of the costs of the
appeal as it shall find to be just. Provided, however, that
all the monies appropriated to Charitable Institutions, or-
ganizations or agencies shall be paid to them on a per
capita basis according to rates fixed by the Board, which
rates should represent the reasonable cost of rendering
the services required of the said institutions, organizations
or agencies to the persons under their care and should be
impartial, fair and uniform in the case of all institutions,
organizations or agencies caring for persons of substan-
tially the same class and under conditions approved by the
Board. And provided further, that the amount to which
any institution; organization or agency may be entitled on
account of services rendered on a per capita basis in any
one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated to it.

6. The said Board shall appoint a competent person to
act as its Executive Secretary, who shall be paid for his