1156               JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS           [Apr. 1

performance of its duties may require. The said Board shall
be provided with suitable offices by the Board of Public
Works. The salaries of the stenographers and clerks shall
be fixed by said Board with the approval of the Governor;
provided that in no case shall the total expenditures of the
said Board for administrative expenses exceed the amount
appropriated to it therefor in each year. The said Board
shall have the power to discharge or remove its secretary,
stenographers or clerks at any time (by a majority of all its
members).

'Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the secretary of this Board
to inform himself fully as to the condition and conduct of
the institutions (coming under the supervision of the Board)
receiving financial assistance from or having contracts with
the State, the progress of social work in this and other coun-
tries, and to report fully to the Board at its regular and
special meetings, and to perform such other duties as the said
Board may require of him. During the session of the Legis-
lature, he shall be in attendance upon and subject to the joint
control and direction of the Finance Committee of the Senate
and Ways and Means Committee of,the House of Delegates;
and shall perform such duties in the line of his employment
and make such investigations and reports as may be imposed
upon him by these committees. For this purpose, the said
secretary shall be furnished with a suitable office in the State
House during the sessions of the Legislature.

'Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That a new section to be known
as Section 4-A be and the same is hereby added to Article
88-A of Bagby's Code (Annotated) of Public Civil Laws of
Maryland, the same to follow immediately after Section 4,
and to read as follows:

'Sec. 4-A. To enable the Board of State Aid and Charities
to properly discharge the duties imposed upon it by this law,
the said Board may of its own motion, or by the direction of
the Governor shall cause charges to be formulated against
any corporation, association, institution or agency receiving
financial assistance from the State or with which the State
has contracts, and cause a copy of such charges to be served
on such corporation, association, institution or agency; and
shall have power to issue a summons for witnesses and docu-
ments, which summons shall be duly served, as are other simi-
lar writs, by any sheriff to whom the same shall be directed,
and to administer oaths, and take testimony which it shall
cause to be transcribed and included in its report. And the
said Board shall have further power to visit, in person or by