EMERSON O. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1653.

any sheriff to whom the same shall be directed, and to adminis-
ter oaths, and take testimony which it shall cause to be trans-
scribed and included in its report. And the said Board shall
have further power to visit, in person or by its Secretary, any
institution receiving financial assistance from the State, or with
which the State has contracts, and to thoroughly inspect the
management, buildings and equipment thereof. But such visits
and inspections shall be made at reasonably convenient hours
and with reasonable regard to the established discipline, regu-
lations and customs of the said institution; provided that any
party who shall feel aggrieved at the action of said Board
hereunder may within thirty days after the determination by
said Board appeal to any Court of General Common Law Juris-
diction in the county or city where the office of the said Board
shall be located at the time of said appeal; and the said Court,
sitting without a jury, shall thereupon fully investigate the
subject matter of the said appeal, and decide all questions of
law or fact arising in connection therewith, and affirm, reverse
or modify any determination of the said Board in the premises,
and make such disposition of the costs of the appeal as it shall
find to be just. Provided, however, that all the monies appro-
priated to Charitable Institutions shall be paid to them on a
per capita basis according to rates fixed by the Board of Public
Works, which rates should represent the reasonable cost of
rendering the services required of the said institutions to the
persons under their care and should be impartial, fair and uni-
form in the case of all institutions caring for persons of sub-
stantially the same class and under conditions approved by the
Board of Public Works. And provided further, that the amount
which may be earned by any institution in any one year shall
not exceed the amount appropriated to it.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 706.

AN ACT to authorize the State Roads Commission to construct
an improved modern road from the State Road at Camp
Parole, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to the State Road
at Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Maryland, along
the lines of the Old Stage Road from Annapolis to Wash-
ington, District of Columbia, which road was laid out in
1796, so as to connect Annapolis, Maryland, and Washing-
ton City, District of Columbia, by a direct improved modern