EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1141

under seal of said Court, may be used in evidence in any Court
in this State. It shall be the duty of the Governor at all times,
when in his opinion the security or securities of any member
of said Board have become or are likely to become invalid or
insufficient, to demand and require such member of said Board
forthwith to renew his bond to the State of Maryland, with
security or securities to be approved by the Governor, in the
penalty and according to the form prescribed in this Section.
Any member of said Board, who shall fail to take oath and
give bond with security or securities aforesaid within thirty
days from the date of his appointment, or who shall fail to
renew bond with security or securities as aforesaid within
thirty days after the same shall have been demanded and re-
quired by the Governor, shall be deemed to be guilty of neglect
of duty and shall be removable as heretofore provided. The
cost of any bond, given by any member of said Board under this
Section, shall be taken to be a part of the necessary expenses
of said Board and shall be payable as hereafter provided.

625. The State Board of Prison Control shall have power to
employ, and remove at pleasure, a Secretary with such duties
and at such salary or compensation as the said Board may pre-
scribe; and the said Board shall have power to employ, and
remove at pleasure, such other employees as said Board may
deem necessary, with such duties and at such salaries or com-
pensation as the said Board may prescribe. The salaries, com-
pensation and necessary expenses of such Secretary and other
employees shall be payable as hereafter provided.

626. From and after the appointment and qualification of
said Board of Prison Control, all rights, powers, duties, func-
tions, liabilities, obligations, franchises, privileges, and prop-
erty, real and personal, in any wise had, enjoyed or held by or
vested in the Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary, or the
Board of Managers of the Maryland House of Correction, shall
be had, enjoyed and held by and vested in the said State Board
of Prison Control; and, from and after their appointment and
qualification, the said State Board of Prison Control shall be
in all respects successors in right, title, interest and liability, to
the Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary, and the Board of
Managers of the Maryland House of Correction; but nothing
in this Act shall be construed to impair or abrogate any exist-
ing contract.