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board, shall appoint the successor. Each superintendent, except the
superintendent at Rosewood, shall be a trained psychiatrist and shall
be familiar with the administration of institutions for the care and
treatment of the insane. The Superintendent of the Rosewood State
Training School shall be a physician, preferably qualified in psychi-
atry or pediatrics, and preferably with experience in the field of
mental retardation and familiar with the administration of institu-
tions for the care and treatment of the mentally retarded. Their
appointment shall not be subject to the provisions of the merit
system law, and they shall be subject to removal by the Commis-
sioner of Mental Hygiene for incompetency or misconduct. Each of
said superintendents shall receive such compensation as shall be
provided in the budget, shall be responsible to the Commissioner of
Mental Hygiene for the operation of the institution in his charge,
and shall submit to the Department such reports, including medical
and financial, as the Department of Mental Hygiene may request.
It shall be the duty of each superintendent to inform the Department
of Mental Hygiene of the conditions in his institution, and to order
that such changes as seem desirable for the welfare of the patients
be put into effect, with the approval of the Department of Mental
Hygiene.

All other appointments of personnel at each of said institutions
shall be made by the superintendent thereof under the provision of
the merit system law, subject to transfer from one institution to
another by the Department of Mental Hygiene, provided the super-
intendents of the respective institutions agree to the transfer and
provided that no reduction in salary is made.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved March 23, 1961.

CHAPTER 132
(Senate Bill 209)

AN ACT to add new Section 82B to the Allegany County Code (1955
Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land) , title "Allegany County", sub-title "County Commissioners",
to follow immediately after Section 82A thereof, which Section
82A was enacted by Chapter 489 of 1959, to authorize the County
Commissioners of Allegany County to appropriate an annual sum
for Miners Hospital in Frostburg.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 82B be and it is hereby added to the Allegany County
Code (1955 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland), title "Allegany County", sub-title "County Commis-

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.