328 LAWS OF MARYLAND. CH. 238

fixed thereto, which Board shall be an administrative depart-
ment of the local government. Such Boards shall have author-
ity to administer Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Assist-
ance, Public Assistance to the Needy Blind and General Pub-
lic Assistance, Child Welfare Services under Section 521 (a)
of the Social Security Act, the investigation and certification
of persons eligible for employment on projects of the Work
Projects Administration, Public Works Administration and
Civilian Conservation Corps, or any other program in
the field of public welfare, and such Boards shall have
authority to administer, handle and distribute Federal sur-
plus commodities in accordance with the rules of the State
Department of Public Welfare, as well as work relief and serv-
ices to families and individuals in need, and the care of
neglected, dependent and delinquent children, which care shall
include the rendering of probation service to juvenile courts or
other courts having jurisdiction over minors.

Administrative costs of the County Welfare Boards for the
purpose of this Section shall be paid out of funds derived from
local sources or out of allotments from State funds, or both,
as the State Department of Public Welfare may prescribe.
The County Commissioners and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore are hereby empowered and directed to levy for or
appropriate such funds, from time to time, as may be neces-
sary for this purpose.

13. Each County Welfare Board shall consist of seven per-
sons, one of whom shall be a County Commissioner of the
county in which such Board is to function. Said County Com-
missioner 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
County 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, but all such terms shall expire
on May 31st of the respective years of expiration. Appoint-
ments to vacancies occurring in 1941 shall be for the term of
three years. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for six-
year terms. Upon the expiration of any term, the appointee
shall be ineligible for re-appointment to a second term imme-
diately succeeding the first. Any vacancy occurring for any
reason during a term shall be filled by appointment 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-