64 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 20

SEC. 3. On the taking effect of this Act, Chapter 104 of
the Acts of 1920, entitled "An Act to authorize and direct the
Governor to appoint an additional member of the State Board
of Health, and to provide for the qualifications of such mem-
ber, " shall be and stand repealed.

SEC. 4. On the taking effect of this Act, a new section
shall be added to Article 43 of the Annotated Code, title
"Health, " said new section to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 1 of said Article, to be known as Section 1A, and to read
as follows:

1A. The Chairman of the Board shall be known as the
Director of Health. He shall be the executive officer of the
Board, and shall receive such compensation as may be allowed
in the Budget. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions conferred by Article
43 of the Annotated Code, title "Health, " and any sections or
provisions thereof, or by any other provisions of law, upon the
Secretary of the State Board of Health, shall be transferred
to and thereafter be exercised and performed by the said Chair-
man of the Board, as the lawful successor to the said Secretary,
to the same extent and effect as if the said Chairman 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 office of Secretary of the Board
shall cease and be abolished.

X.

The Department of Public Works.

SECTION 1. The head of the Department of Public Works
shall be the State Roads Commission, constituted and organ-
ized as at present, except as hereinafter provided, and having
and exercising all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions now or hereafter conferred by law.

SEC. 2. On the taking effect of this Act, Section 33 of
Article 91 of the Annotated Code, title "Surveyor and State
Survey, " sub-title "Public Roads, " shall be repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

33. The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to
appoint three competent persons, citizens and residents of this
State, who shall constitute a special commission, to be known