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Baltimore,   Lid. ,     January 21st.,   1909,
T.;enty-fourth Meeting.
Present.
L-'inutes.
Bills  i'or Payment.
Payment  au thorized.
Bills
Bills  of J*d. Geological Survey   for telephone calls    pro-rated
Gas meter  in  532 North Kw-.vard Street,   to  be champed  to  the  narrie  of State  Roads  Commission.
Chairman   authorized  to
sign  for the   Commiss'n.
Surveys   to   ne  made  in Har-for  Count:,   froi.   the Hickory   '"cad towards Jarrettsville,   and from Bel Air  to  Aberdeen.
"Ideal"  Window Ventilators for Draughting Rooms, $3-50 per \Yindo-.v and 50/ for freight.
The  regular bi-monthly meeting of  the   State Roads  Commission v;as held this Thursday,   January 21,   1909,   at  its  offices,  Union Trust Building,   Baltimore,  1'aryland,   at 10  o'clock A.I.'.
Present:     Governor Austin T..   Crothers,   Chairman  John L'.   Tucker,   Dr.   Ira Reirsen,   ILr.   Franis  C.   Hutton,   Dr.   Wm.   Bullock Clark and I.'r.   Samuel 1'.   Shoemaker.
The minutes  of the  previous special and regular meetings of the  Commission were  read and approved.
The  Chairman  presented a number of bills,   and on motion of Dr.   Clark,   seconded by I/r.   Hutton,   the  bills enumerated were authorized to  be paid.        The  bills  follow:
A.   S.   Abell,       Advertising   ,                     $    5.40
!»'.   J.   Mullaney,   Cumberland,   Board,	39.00
Roger 3.   Irwin,   Survey Expense	130.10
G.   Hunter  Sykes,       do           do	42.15
C.   C.   Pulton & Co.   advertising	5.40
P.   C.   Hutton,   Railroad fares,	9.70
Janes  Gantt,   Hauling  desks,	2.00
Charles H.   Kaufrnan,   hauling,	13.48
?.   Weber & Co.,   Corp.Med & "^rasers,	10.50
Hess  Printing  Co.,   Field Notes,	113.00
Kingsbury-Samuel  Co.,   wiring,	79.15
The   T.A.Biays  Co.,   Draughting pens,	37.56
Md.Geological  Survey Com'n,   clerical help,   &c.	79.48 Ches.& Pot.Telephone  Co..   local  calls     17.55
Consolidated Gas  Company,   for gas,	7.20
$591.67
Mr. Hutton moved that the "bill of the Maryland Geologi.cal
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and Economic Survey Coirurission for telephone calls, as presented, "be pro-rated  on the basts of tv.-o-fifths by the Geological Survey Commission and three-fifths by the State Roads Commission, '• on the calls, and that the tolls be paid for by the Geological Su.-vey Commission.   Governoc Crothers seconded the motion and; it was adopted.	•
The Chairman stated that the Consolidated Gas Company wanted the meter in 532 North Howard Street, changed to the name of the State Roads Commission, and Dr. Clark moved that the Chairman be authorized to sign the contract with the Consolidated Has Company for the meter in the name of the Commission.  The motion was seconded by Dr. Remsen and adopted.
Mr. Shoemaker moved that surveys be made in Harford County from the Hickory Road towards Jarrettsville, and from Bel Air to Aberdeen.   The motion \vas seconded by Mr. Hutton and adopted.
Governor Crothers moved that four "Ideal" window ventilators be purchased and installed in the draughting rooms in the building 532 North Hwward Street, at a cost not to exceed $3.50 per
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