PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 849

1914, and until their successors respectively qualify according
to law, and in such event, the term of office of each succeeding
member of said Board shall be for two years and until his suc-
cessor qualifies.

The Governor may remove any member of said Board for
inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct in office, giving to
him a copy of the charges preferred against him, and the op-
portunity of being publicly heard in person or by counsel in
his own defense, on not less than ten days' notice. If such
member shall be removed, the Governor shall file in the office
of the Secretary of State a complete statement of all charges
made against such member and his finding thereon, together
with a complete record of the proceedings.

SEC. 7. Before entering upon the duties of his office each
member of said Board shall take an oath that he will well and
faithfully execute and perform the duties appertaining to his
office according to the laws of the State and the rules and regu-
lations adopted in accordance therewith.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That eight new Sections
be an the same are hereby added to Article 41 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, to follow immediately after
Section 7 of said Article, and to be known respectively as Sec-
tions 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, and 7H, and to read as
follows:

. SEC. 7 A. The said Advisory Board of Parole shall have and
Are hereby given visitorial powers over all institutions to which
any person may be committed upon a criminal charge or to
which a minor may be committed as a delinquent, whether such
institution be a State, County or City institution, or private
institution receiving State, County or City aid; and the said
Board shall have power to summon witnesses before it and to ad-
minister oaths or affirmations to such witnesses whenever, in
the judgment of the said Board, it may be necessary for the
effectual discharge of their duties under this Act; and any per-
son failing to appear before said Board at the time and place
specified, in answer to said summons, or refusing to testify,
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars; false swearing on the part of any
witness testifying before said Board shall be deemed perjury.
The said Advisory Board of Parole shall have power to make