318 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Department of Charities and Corrections.

103. There shall be a Department of Charities and Correc-
tions of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which shall
consist of the Supervisors of City Charities and the Visitors to
the City Jail. The head of the Department of Charities and
Corrections shall be a Board of Charities and Corrections com-
posed of the President and one other of the Supervisors of City
Charities, the President and one other of the Visitors to the
City Jail, and the Mayor ex officio. The Supervisors of City
Charities and the Visitors to the City Jail shall each designate
their representative member. The President of the Supervisors
of City Charities shall be President of the Board of Charities
and Corrections. This Board shall be for consultation and ad-
vice, but it shall have no power to direct or control the duties
or work of any sub-department under this department. It shall
perform such other duties as may be required of it by ordinances
not inconsistent with this Article.

104. The Supervisors of City Charities shall be the first
sub-department of Charities and Corrections, and the head
of this sub-department shall be a board composed of nine
persons, appointed by the Mayor as provided in section 25
of this Article, who shall be removable as therein provided.
Their term of office shall be for six years, three of them to retire
at the end of every two years; except that the Supervisors first
appointed shall determine by lot their terms of office, so as to
provide for the termination of the term of three Supervisors each
at the end of the first two and four years. The said Supervisors
shall have been citizens of Maryland for at least five years, and
residents of the City of Baltimore for at least one year prior to
their nomination. The Mayor, in the appointment of said
Supervisors, shall designate one of their number as President,
and the Supervisors shall elect a Secretary, who shall be paid a
salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly, and shall discharge such duties as the Supervisors
shall prescribe. The said Supervisors shall serve without pay.
They shall be appointed by the Mayor from among those whom
he deems, by reason of their intelligence, experience and char-
acter, to be most capable of caring for the poor, economically,