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said Maryland Public Library Commission, to the same extent
and effect as if the said State Superintendent of Schools had
been named in said provisions of the law as the official upon
whom the said rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions
were conferred. Thereupon the terms of office of the members
of the said Maryland Public Library Commission shall cease
and be at an end and the said Commission shall be and stand
abolished.

SEC. 3. On the taking effect of this Act, Sections 100 and
101 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code, title "Public Educa-
tion, " Chapter 15, sub-title "Public Libraries, " are respec-
tively repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read,
respectively, as follows:

100. The Governor shall biennially appoint rive persons,
at least two of whom shall be women, who, with the State Li-
brarian and the Librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library,
shall constitute the Maryland Public Library Advisory Com-
mission. The members first appointed under this Act shall
be appointed on the taking effect of this Act, and hold office
until the first Monday of May, 1924, and until their successors
shall qualify.

101. Said commission shall annually elect from their own
number a President and a Secretary, who, with the other mem-
bers of the commission, shall serve without pay, but the neces-
sary traveling expenses of the Commissioners in attending
upon the meetings of the commission or its business away
from their homes, may be paid out of any appropriation avail-
able for the purpose. The secretary shall also act as treasurer
of the commission and shall give bond with approved security
for the proper performance of his duties. It shall be the duty
of the Commission, from time to time, to advise and counsel with
and to aid the State Superintendent of Schools with respect to
the performance of his duties under Sections 100 to 120. inc.,
of this sub-title.

SEC. 4. The Maryland School for the Deaf, incorporated
under the Acts of 1867, Chapter 247, the Maryland Training
School for Boys, organized under authority of the Acts of
1918, Chapter 300, and the Maryland Industrial Training
School for Girls, organized under authority of the Acts of
1918, Chapter 303, are each, on the taking effect of this Act,
placed in and shall thereafter exercise their functions as parts