158 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the period of two years, commencing the first day of May, 1910,
and thereafter until their successors have been appointed and
qualified; each Commissioner within thirty days after notifica-
tion of his appointment shall take and subscribe the oath or
affirmation required by law before the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City; every person appointed Commis-
sioner who shall refuse or neglect to take the said oath or af-
firmation within the period named shall be deemed to have re-
fused said office, and the Governor shall immediately appoint
some person qualified, as provided in Section 186 of this Arti-
cle, to fill the vacancy thus created; each of said Commission-
ers shall receive the sum of five dollars for every day that he
shall attend any trial in any court of any kind in this State,
or before any Justice of the Peace of this State, with reference
to the execution of this law or the prosecution of any violations
thereof, and for every day that he shall be present at a meeting
of said board for the transaction of business, and shall further
receive his reasonable traveling expenses in attending meetings
of said board; provided, that said compensation shall be paid
out of the fees or other sums received by said board. The
present State Board of Commissioners of Practical Plumbing,
under the local laws of Baltimore City, shall continue in office,
with all the powers and duties heretofore held by them in Bal-
timore City, until the Commissioners authorized by this Act to
be appointed shall be appointed and qualified, and thereupon
the duties and authorities of said board under the local laws of
Baltimore City shall be at an end, and they shall turn over all
books and papers, and any balance of money received by them
and not expended by them, to the board appointed under the
provisions of this Act; but nothing herein contained shall be
deemed in any way to affect or alter any act heretofore done
under the provisions of said local laws, or to affect the punish-
ment for any violations of said local laws, and all violations
of said local laws before the same shall be superseded by this
law shall be punishable in the same manner as if this law had
not been enacted.

190. The said Board of Commissioners are empowered to
make such rules and regulations for the enforcement of the
provisions of this Act and for the performance of their duties
hereunder, from time to time, as in their judgment they may
deem necessary and requisite; and they may provide for the
examination of applicants for journeyman plumber's certifi-
cates or permits, and for the issuing of certificates or permits
to journeyman plumbers after passing such examination as
said Commissioners may deem proper, said Commissioners des-
ignating them either "certificates" or "permits," as they may
deem proper, and they may provide for the issuing of permits