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from time to time, to advise and counsel and to aid in. connec-
tion with the said survey.

SEC. 6. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights, pow-
ers, duties, obligations and functions of the Board of Govern-
ment provided for the state Weather Service by Sections 1 to
4, inc., of Article 96A of the Annotated Code, title ''Weather
Service—State, " said Board being composed of the President
of the Johns Hopkins University, the President of the Uni-
versity of Maryland and the Chief of the United States

Weather Bureau, shall be transferred to and thereafter be ex-
ercised and performed by the Regents of the University of
Maryland, through the State Geologist, as the lawful succes-
sors to said Board of Government, to the same extent and
effect as if the said Regents of the University of Maryland had
been named in said sections of the law as the body upon whom
the said rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions were
conferred. Thereupon the said Board of Government shall
cease and be at an end.

VI.

The Department of Militia.

SECTION 1. The head of the Department of Militia shall
be the Adjutant General of the State, having and exercising
the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions now or
hereafter conferred by law.

VII.

The Department of Welfare.

SECTION 1. The Department of Welfare is hereby estab-
lished. The head of this Department shall be the Board of
Welfare, consisting of the Director of the Department, who
shall serve as the Chairman of the Board, and four associate
members, who shall be appointed without regard to political
affiliation, who shall each be not less than thirty years of age,
interested and, preferably, experienced in social welfare, and
at least one associate member shall be a woman. The Director
and Chairman of the Board, and the associate members thereof,
shall all be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Senate, except that the appointments first made
hereunder shall be made by the Governor alone on the taking
effect of this Act, and these terms of office shall begin then.