THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 873

Prince George's County (1943 Edition), being Article 17
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Hospital", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

707. The Board of County Commissioners of Prince
George's County is hereby given full power and authority
to operate and maintain said hospital, and in the operation
thereof shall be authorized to make such charges for serv-
ices furnished as in their judgment are necessary and
proper [. ], subject, however, to the following limitations
and restrictions:

Prince George's General Hospital shall be governed by
a Board of Directors of nine persons to be appointed as
hereinafter set forth by the Board of County Commis-
sioners for said county, said appointments to be made in
the following manner: The President, or any one member
of the Board of County Commissioners designated by said
Board, shall be a member of said Board of Directors; one
member shall be appointed by said Board upon the cer-
tification of the active medical staff of said hospital; one
member shall be appointed to said Board upon the cer-
tification of the Prince George's General Hospital Guild;
two members of said Board shall be appointed upon the
certification by the Prince George's County Medical
Society, not more than one to be a medical doctor; four
members of said Board shall be selected and appointed by
the County Commissioners from among the citizens of
said county. The medical doctor certified by the Prince
George's County Medical Society and by the medical staff
of said hospital shall be the only medical doctors on the
Board. There shall not be more than two members of said
Board from any one election District of the County. The
County Commissioners may reject any name so certified
to them and require further certification until a person
satisfactory to them is proposed for appointment. All
members of said Board shall be appointed for a term of
three years, but upon the first appointments made by said
Board of County Commissioners, three persons shall be
appointed for one year, three persons for two years and
three persons for three years and thereafter annually, as
the terms of said appointees expire, all persons appointed
to said Board shall be appointed for a term of three years
Said appointments shall be made on or before the first
day of the month of JUNE, 1953, and thereafter
annually before the first day of said month. The terms
of all members of the present Board of Directors to said
hospital are hereby declared terminated upon the appoint-