154 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 75

State Board of Health and practicing in the respective City
or County in which the applicant is a resident, he or she is
deemed properly qualified. All licensed midwives shall regis-
ter with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County in which
they respectively reside or with the Commissioner of Health,
if they reside in the City of Baltimore.

174. The [Food and Drug Commissioner of the] State
Board of Health shall be charged with the [act of] enforce-
ment of the provisions of this sub-title.

198. The examination of specimens of food and drugs shall
be made in the laboratories of the State Board of Health [and
under the direction or supervision of such commissioner or
deputy commissioner, appointed as provided in Section 196, ]
for the purpose of determining from such examinations
whether such articles are adulterated or misbranded within
the meaning of Sections 189 to 200; and if it shall appear from
any such examination that such articles are adulterated or
misbranded within the meaning of Sections 189 to 200, the
State Board of Health shall cause notice thereof to be given
to the party from whom such sample or samples was or were
obtained; any party so notified shall be given an opportunity
to be heard under such rules and regulations as may be pre-
scribed as aforesaid, and if it appears to the State Board of
Health that such party should be prosecuted, then the State
Board of Health shall at once certify the facts to the State's
Attorney of the County or the State's Attorney of Baltimore
City, where the law has been violated, with a copy of the re-
sults of the analysis or the examination of such article, duly
authenticated by the analyst or officer making such examina-
tion, under the oath of such officer, and it shall be the duty
of the State's Attorney to whom the State Board of Health
shall report any violation of Sections 189 to 200 to cause ap-
propriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the
courts of the State without delay for the enforcement of the
penalties as in such cases herein provided; after judgment of
the court, notice shall be given by publication in such manner
as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations aforesaid.

496L. (a) The Governor shall appoint eleven persons to an
Advisory Council on Hospital Construction to consult with
and advise the State Board of Health in its administration of
a State plan for the construction and reconstruction of hospi-
tal facilities as provided for in said Public Law 725 of the
79th Congress of the United States.

(b) The term of office of the appointed members of the Ad-
visory Council on Hospital Construction shall be three years,
but of those first appointed, three shall be appointed for a