1144 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 556

more City, inviting proposals and setting forth the quantity
and quality of supplies required, and the time within which,
proposals for such supplies shall be made, and they shall accept
such proposals as in their opinion, under all the circumstances,
may be most advantageous to the institutions under their con-
trol.

632. The party, with whom any contract may be made by
said Board, may be required by said Board to execute a bond
*to the State, with security approved by said Board and in no
wise connected with any of said institutions, in such amount
as the Board shall fix for the faithful performance thereof}
and the said Board may rescind any contract as soon as there
shall be a failure to comply therewith, and the said Board
shall be authorized in the name of the State and for the use of
said Board to institute suit on said bond for any breach thereof.

633. A majority of said Board shall be a quorum for the
transaction of all business, and shall have full power and
authority to do and perform any and all acts that the said
Board is by law. authorized and empowered to do and perform;
and the said Board, or a majority thereof, may authorize any
of its members by and in its name to execute on its behalf any
and all papers that the said Board has power and authority to
execute.

634. The State Board of Prison Control shall employ a
Warden for the Maryland Penitentiary, and a Warden for the
Maryland House of Correction. The said Wardens shall each
receive such salary as the Board may fix, and in addition to
said salary the Board may allow to each, of said Wardens, sub-
sistence, fuel and a dwelling in some part of the institution
under his charge, but said Wardens shall receive no other com-
pensation or perquisite. The said Wardens shall each for the
respective institutions employ, with the approval of said Board,
who shall fix their compensations, a physician and such other
employees as may to said Board seem necessary for the proper
management of said institutions: The said Wardens and all
persons employed by them, or any of them, shall perform their
employment only during the pleasure of said Board, and shall
as employees have such duties and authority as may from time
to time be imposed and conferred upon them or any of them by
said Board. The salaries, compensation and necessary expenses
of said Wardens and of all persons employed by them, or any
of them, shall be payable as hereafter prescribed.