HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 191

"Department of Welfare"; to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 15 of Article 59 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, (1924 Edition), title "Lunatics and
Insane, " sub-title "Board of Mental Hygiene"; to repeal
and re-enact, with amendments, Section 41 of said
Article, and to add a new section to Article 59 of the
Annotated Code, (1924 Edition) to be known as Section
19A, to follow immediately after Section 19 of said
Article, to vest the supervision, direction and control of
the State Hospitals for the Insane in the Board of
Mental Hygiene; to provide for the appointment of
Superintendents and medical personnel for such insti-
tutions, and for the transfer of such personnel from
one institution to another.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 8, 10, 11 and 13 of Article 44 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1924 Edition), title
"Hospital—Maryland, " be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 2, Be it further enacted, That Sections 19 and 20
of Article 44 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1924
Edition), title "Hospital—Maryland, " sub-title "Spring-
field State Hospital, " be, and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 704
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "De-
partment of Welfare, " be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Section 15 of
Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Lunatics and Insane, " sub-title "Board of
Mental Hygiene, " be, and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments to read as follows:

15. There shall be a Board of Mental Hygiene, which
shall have supervision over all institutions, public, cor-
porate or private in which insane persons are detained.

Said Board of Mental Hygiene shall consist of the Com-
missioner of Mental Hygiene, who shall serve as the Chair-
man of the Board, and six associate members. Three at
least of said Board shall be appointed from the City of
Baltimore, four at least of said Board shall be physicians
and graduates of some legally authorized medical college,
and must also have been in the actual practice of their
profession at least five years consecutively just preceding
their appointment; one of said physicians so chosen shall