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8E. Each County Welfare Board shall consist of seven
persons, one of whom shall be a County Commissioner of the
county in which such Board is to function. Said County
Commissioner shall be an ex-officio member of the Board, and
each year the Board of County Commissioners shall designate
which of its members shall so serve. All members of the Coun-
ty Boards shall serve without pay.

The members of each County Board, aside from the County
Commissioner serving thereon, who are in office at the effec-
tive date of this Act, shall continue in office until the expira-
tion of their respective terms. Appointments to vacancies oc-
curring in 1939 shall be for the term of one year; appoint-
ments to vacancies occurrring in 1940 shall be for the term
of two years; and appointments to vacancies occurring in 1941
shall be for the term of three years. Thereafter, all appoint-
ments shall be for six-year terms. Upon the expiration of any
term, the appointee shall be ineligible for re-appointment to a
second term immediately succeeding the first. Any vacancy
occurring for any reason during a term shall be filled by ap-
pointment for the remainder of the unexpired term.

The members of each County Welfare Board, other than the
County Commissioner serving thereon, shall be appointed by
the Board of County Commissioners from a list submitted by
the State Department of Public Welfare as hereinafter pro-
vided, after approval by the Board. In case of a vacancy
occurring in the membership of any County Board by reason of
expiration of the term or otherwise, the Board of County Com-
missioners of the county concerned shall forthwith proceed to
appoint the requisite member or members from a list to be
submitted by the State Department of Public Welfare, after
conference with the Board of County Commissioners of the
county concerned, which list shall contain twice the number
of persons to be selected. A vacancy created in the ex-officio
membership of the County Board shall be filled by the Board
of County Commissioners alone.

Each County Board shall select its own chairman annually.

The County Boards shall in their respective counties appoint
the personnel necessary for the proper administration of this
Article, which power of appointment shall be subject to the
conditions prescribed in Section 8A of this Article.

8F. The State Department of Public Welfare is hereby
authorized and empowered to accept any and all allotments
of Federal funds and commodities and to manage and dispose
of the same in whatever manner may be required by Federal
law, and to take advantage of the Federal Social Security Act
and any amendments and supplements thereto, and any other
Federal Act relating to public welfare.