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connected with the Maryland Penitentiary, the Maryland House
of Correction shall be paid by the said Board out of any funds
in the hands of said Board, or by the State Treasurer upon
warrant of the Comptroller of the Treasury, out of the funds
hereinafter appropriated.

Every member of said State Board of Prison Control, and
every employee of said Board, and every Warden, and other
employees connected with any of said institutions, shall have
reimbursed to him all actual and necessary traveling and other
expenses which the said Board may certify to have been in-
curred by him in the discharge of his official duties; and the
said reimbursements shall be made by the said Board out of
any funds in the hands of said Board, or by the State Treas-
urer, upon warrant of the Comptroller, of the Treasury, out of
the funds hereinafter appropriated.

657. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20, 000) for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 1917, and the like sum of twenty
thousand dollars ($20, 000) for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1918, or so much of said sums as may be necessary, for the
payment of the salaries, compensation and expenses of the State
Board of Prison Control and all employees thereof, is hereby
appropriated and shall be payable on the order or orders of
the State Board of Prison Control, drawn at such intervals and
in such amounts upon the Comptroller of the State as the said
State Board of Prison Control may deem necessary, and the
Comptroller shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of
Maryland at such intervals and for such amounts as may be
deemed necessary by the said State Board of Prison Control,
as aforesaid.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all Public General
Laws and all Public Local Laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of October, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 557.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 33 of the Acts of 1839 which re-
quires the Treasurer of the State of Maryland to substitute
annually, the sum of $34, 069. 36 for the interest on the "Sur-