822                                 Laws of Maryland                          Ch. 401

[Governor] Secretary, with the approval of the Governor, may re-
move any member of the board for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or
misconduct in office, giving to such member a copy of the charges
preferred and the opportunity of being first publicly heard in person
or by counsel. If such member shall be removed, the [Governor]
Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services shall file in the
office of the Secretary of State a complete statement of all charges
made against such member, and his findings thereof, together with a
complete record of the proceedings. The chairman and associate
members shall serve without pay.

(c) Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office,
each member of said Board shall take an oath that he will well and
faithfully execute and perform all and singular the duties apper-
taining to his office according to the laws of the State and the rules
and regulations adopted in accordance therewith. The certificate of
the appointment by the Governor and Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services of any member shall be sent to the clerk
of the circuit court of the county or the clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, where the appointee resides,
and the clerk of said court shall promptly notify the appointee of the
receipt of such certificate warning him that failure to take the afore-
said oath within sixty (60) days shall constitute a refusal of the
appointment. The clerk shall notify the Governor of any such failure.

2.

The director shall be the chief administrative officer of the
Patuxent Institution, and shall be a trained, able and competent
psychiatrist with at least five years' experience in the practice or
teaching of psychiatry. The director holding office at the time of the
passage of this section shall continue to hold office [in accordance
with the provisions of this section] at the pleasure of the Secretary
of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Any successor as direc-
tor shall be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correc-
tional Services, with the approval of the Governor, and he shall serve
at the pleasure of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services. FROM A LIST OF THREE NOMINEES PROPOSED TO
THE SECRETARY BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE COMPOSED
OF THE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT THE MEDICAL
SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, THE PRO-
FESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE DEPUTY SECRE-
TARY FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, AND THE CHAIR-
MAN OF THE BOARD OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION. THE
SECRETARY MAY REJECT ANY LIST OF THREE NOMINEES
AND REQUEST ANOTHER LIST. THREE MEMBERS OF SAID
SPECIAL COMMITTEE SHALL BE EMPOWERED IN THE
ABSENCE OF THE FULL COMMITTEE TO ACT FOR THE COM-
MITTEE. [Governor from a nominee or nominees proposed to the
Governor by a special committee composed of the professor of psy-
chiatry of the Medical School of the University of Maryland, the
professor of psychiatry of the Medical School of the Johns Hopkins
University, the chairman of the Board of Correction, and the chair-
man of the board of Patuxent Institution. Three members of said
special committee shall be empowered in the absence of the full com-
mittee to act for the committee.] The director shall receive a salary
as fixed in the budget, which shall not be less than fifteen thousand