1554 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 684

ous States, such sum as they may think proper, not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars; to the State Industrial Acci-
dent Commission for salaries and expenses as provided by
Chapter 800 of the Acts of 1914, as amended by the
Acts of 1916, fifty-five thousand dollars; for the sup-
port of insane, convicts as provided by Chapter 123 of
the Acts of 1890, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary; to the State Lunacy
Commission for salaries and expenses, forty-five hundred dol-
lars; to the State Bank Commissioner, two thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary to make up any de-
ficiency between the cost of running said office and the fees
collected by him in the conduct of his said department, as
provided by Chapter 805 of the Acts of 1914; to the Board
of State Aid and Charities for salaries and expenses, fifty-
one hundred dollars; to the Advisory Board of Parole for
salaries and expenses, the sum of twelve thousand dollars to be
expended in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 500
of the Acts of 1914; to the Public Service Commission for sal-
aries and expenses as provided in Article 23 of the Annotated
Code of Public General laws of Maryland, as amended, the sum
of ninety-five thousand dollars, out of which sum the Peo-
ple's Counsel shall be paid additional compensation of
eighteen hundred dollars for his services in connection
with the investigations of the United Railways & Electric
Company, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
and the Baltimore County Water and Electric Com-
pany, now pending before the Commission; to the State
Board of Health for the examination and analysis of food
and drugs as provided in Section 175, Article 48 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, the
sum of fifteen thousand dollars; for the support and expenses
of the bureaus of communicable diseases, bacteriology, chem-
istry, sanitary engineering and vital statistics, as provided
in Sections 24 to 32 inclusive, of Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, the sum of twenty
thousand dollars; for the further expenses of the bureau of
communicable diseases provided by Chapter 512 of the Acts
of 1912, the sum of ten thousand dollars; for the Pasteur
treatment for hydrophobia and the purchase of diphtheria
antitoxin and other similar serums for the treatment of in-
fectious diseases, the sum of two thousand dollars; for the
better preservation of the public health by preserving the
purity of the waters of the State and for the supervision