HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               821

trustees of the poor of any of the counties of this State to
receive into or retain in any county home any child between
three and sixteen years of age for a longer period than
ninety days, unless such child be an unteachable idiot, an
epileptic, or a paralytic, or be otherwise so disabled or
deformed as to render it incapable of labor or service.

3.

It shall be the duty of the county commissioners and
trustees of the poor of the counties of this State to place
all such pauper children who are in their charge in some
respectable family in the State, or in some educational
institution or home for children or under the care of some
other child-caring agency or agencies which agency or
agencies previously shall have been formally approved by the
State Board of Public Welfare or to maintain them in their
own homes, and it shall also be the duty of said trustees of
the poor of the counties of the State, or an agent or agents
to be appointed by them for the purpose, to visit such
children not less than once in every six months and to make
all needful inquiries as to their treatment and welfare, and
to report to the board of trustees or county commissioners
making such disposition of said children. The county
commissioners and/or trustees of the poor shall place all
such children with a family, institution or agency duly
authorized as aforesaid, under the control of a person or
persons of the same religious faith or persuasion as the
said child; and the wish or request of the parent or
guardian as to the place of commitment shall be respected
unless good cause to the contrary be shown. The said county
commissioners shall have power to place foundlings in any
proper institution or agency qualified as aforesaid. The
county commissioners of the respective counties of this
State are hereby authorized to levy and collect such an
amount as is in their opinion may be necessary and proper to
carry out the provisions of this section.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 8, 1980.

CHAPTER 85

(House Bill 565)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland State Fair Board - Name Change

FOR the purpose of changing the name of the Maryland State
Fair Board to the Maryland Agricultural Fair Board.