ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1269

5A. On and after June 1st, 1927, all institutions, agencies and
societies whether incorporated or not, except those receiving
financial assistance from the State or having contracts with the
State, or licensed by any incorporated municipality or district
authorized to issue such licenses, as well as all individuals, having
the care, custody or control of two or more minors, other than
children related by blood or marriage to, or adopted by such in-
dividuals, or for whom such individuals are duly appointed guar-
dians, shall obtain an annual license therefor from the State, to
be issued by the Board of State Aid and Charities, upon due
proof of compliance with rules and regulations designed to se-
cure the proper care of such minors, which rules and regulations,
the said Board is hereby authorized to establish.

The said Board shall have the same power to investigate and
visit any such institutions, agencies, societies or individuals as
is now provided by law in the case of corporations, associations,
institutions or agencies receiving financial assistance from the
State or having contracts with the State, and shall have power
to revoke the licenses of any such institutions, agencies, societies
or individuals. All such action of the Board is subject to the
same right of appeal by any party who shall feel aggrieved at
any action of the Board hereunder, as in the case of state-aided
institutions. The provisions of Section 378 of Article 27 shall
not be construed as limiting the powers herein granted to the
said Board.

Any person or persons and any officer or representative of an
institution, agency or society which assumes or exercises the
care, custody or control of minor children in violation of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon con-
viction shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $100 or imprison-
ment not to exceed three months.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 633.

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the agge-

gate amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($150, 000), the proceeds thereof to be used for paying part
of the cost of the Fifth Regiment Armory Plaza in Balti-
more City, and providing generally for the issue and sale
of certificates of indebtedness evidencing such loan.