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and other countries relative to the best and most successful methods
of caring for such persons as come under the supervision of the
Department.

39.

The Department of Mental Hygiene , with the approval of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, shall divide the State of
Maryland into such number of hospital districts which, in its discre-
tion, the Department may deem advisable for the proper care and
custody of the insane. Whenever the Department of Mental Hygiene
shall deem it necessary to care more conveniently for the insane in
the various hospitals it, with the approval of the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene, may change the limits of such hospital dis-
tricts. The Department shall notify the county commissioners of
each county of the limits of the various districts.

Sec. 27. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 2 (a) of Article 70B of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition, 1967 Supplement), title "Commission on
the Aging," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

2.

(a) Creation and composition; appointment, qualifications, term,
etc., of members.—There is hereby created a commission to be known
as the State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging.
The Commission shall consist of [seventeen (17)] sixteen (16)
members, eleven of whom shall be appointed by the Governor for
terms of six years. Of the eleven members appointed by the Gover-
nor, one shall be a member of the Senate of Maryland, one a member
of the House of Delegates of Maryland, one a representative of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, one a representative
of the Baltimore City Medical Society, one a representative of labor,
one a representative of industry, one member who shall be specially
knowledgeable in research, one member who shall be associated with
the work of charitable organizations, and three members who shall
be selected because of their interest in the problems of the aging.
Of the said ten members first appointed, two shall be appointed for
terms of two years, two for terms of three years, two for terms of
four years, two for terms of five years and two for terms of six
years, but thereafter, their successors shall be appointed for terms
of six years each. The Governor shall designate one of said eleven
members as chairman of the Commission. In case of any vacancy,
the Governor shall appoint a successor to serve for the remainder
of the unexpired term. Members thereof shall be eligible for re-
appointment. [Six] Five members of the Commission shall be, ex
officio, the [Director of the State Department of Health, the Com-
missioner of the Department of Mental Hygiene,] the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene, the Director of the State Department
of Social Services, the State Superintendent of Schools, the Execu-
tive Director of the