The Director of Highways should also have complete jurisdiction
over the Engineering Department, the Right-of-Way Department
and the entire administrative organization of the Commission itself.

To carry out this plan, I propose that at least two of the seven
members be of the political party opposite that of the Governor.
I propose that the Chairman and Director be appointed by and serve
at the pleasure of the Governor. I further propose that three of the
six other members be appointed by the Governor for a term of one
year and that the remaining three members be appointed for a term
of two years, and at the end of their respective terms they be appointed
for a term of four years. This rotation of terms will insure a con-
tinuity of office which I deem desirable in any agency as large and
important as the State Roads Commission.

The full membership of the Commission should meet at least twice
each month and at such other times as is considered necessary by
the Director of Highways or the Governor. In addition, the six part-
time members of the Commission should conduct a continuing recon-
naissance of the Secondary highways of their area in order that the
needs and problems from time to time may be brought before the full
Commission.

In my prior statement on the State Roads Commission I said: "I
doubt the wisdom of taking landowners' property for future fourlane
highway construction if it is not contemplated that a super-highway
will be necessary in the foreseeable future. " I wish to repeat that
statement. Of course, when traffic justifies the construction of a four-
lane divided highway, four lanes should be constructed. Likewise,
when traffic estimates for the foreseeable future justify the acquisition
of sufficient rights-of-way to construct the second lane of a highway,
the additional rights-of-way should be acquired in the initial instance
to provide for the additional lanes.

From a study of the State Roads Commission Twelve Year Program,
a number of instances are found where the "Yellow Book, " which
embraces the Twelve Year Plan, called for the widening and improv-
ing of the existing road to 22 feet and resurfacing. After the passage
of the Twelve Year program by the Legislature, rights-of-way of
sufficient width were purchased to construct a four-lane highway. Two
lanes have been constructed, and I assume that the other lanes will
be constructed sometime in the distant future when traffic justifies
it and money is available. One example of this is Route 16 in Dor-
chester County between Church Creek and Woolford. Another
example is found in Queen Anne's County, on Route 290 between

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