1916]                        OP THE SENATE.                         1157

its secretary, any institution receiving financial assistance
from the State or with which the State has contracts, and to
thoroughly inspect the management, buildings and equip-
ment thereof. But such visits and inspections shall be made
at reasonably convenient hours and with reasonable regard to
the established discipline, regulations and customs of the said
institution; provided that any party who shall feel aggrieved
at the action of said Board hereunder may within thirty days
after the determination by said Board appeal to any Court
of General Common Law, jurisdiction in the county or city
where the office of the said Board shall be located at the time
of said appeal; and the said court, sitting without a jury,
shall thereupon fully investigate the subject matter of the
said appeal, and decide all questions of law or fact arising
in connection therewith, and affirm, reverse or modify any de-
termination of the said Board in the premises, and make such
disposition of the costs of the appeal as it shall find to be

"On page 4, Section 4-A of the amended Bill, as typewritten
and following after the words 'find to be just' add the words:
Provided, however, that all the moneys appropriated to chari-
table institutions shall be paid to them on a per capita basis
according to rates fixed by the Board of Public Works, which
rates should represent the reasonable cost of rendering the
services required of the said institutions to the persons under
their care and should be impartial, fair and uniform in the
case of all institutions caring for persons of substantially the
same class and under conditions approved by the Board of
Public Works. And provided further, that the amount which
may be earned by any institution in any one year shall not
exceed the amount appropriated to it."

Two-thirds of all the Senators voting in the affirmative, the
rules were suspended by yeas and nays as follows (Mr. Wil-
liams being excused from voting) :

Messrs.—•		AFFIRMATIVE.
President Allen Bennett Bomberger Brown	Chesley Collier Cooper Duvall Harrison	Holmead Johnson Joy Kaufman	Legg Mudd Ogden Parsons	Shepherd Speicher Warfield Total—21
Messrs.—■		NEGATIVE.
Frick	Norris	Zihlman		Total—3

and Bill and amendments were considered immediately.
[The amendments were then read and adopted.] [Which