or Canal Company in which the State
is a stockholder; they shall require the
Directors of all said Public Works from
time to time, and as often as there shall
be any change in the rates of toll on
any of said works, to furnish said Board
of Public Works a schedule of such
modified rates of toll, and shall use all
legal powers which they may possess to
obtain the establishment of rates of toll
which may prevent an injurious com-
petition with each other to the detriment
of the interests of the State, and so to
adjust them as to promote the agri-
cultural interests of the State; they shall
report to the General Assembly at each
regular session, and recommend such
legislation as they shall deem necessary
and requisite to promote or protect the
interests of the State in the said Public
Works; they shall perform such other
duties as may be hereafter prescribed by
law; and a majority of them shall be
competent to act.
The Governor, Comptroller and
Treasurer, shall receive no additional
salary for services rendered by them as
members of the Board of Public Works.
Sec. 3. There shall be a Commissioner
of the Land Office, elected by the quali-
fied voters of the State, on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in the month
of November, in the year eighteen
hundred and seventy, and on the same
day in every sixth year thereafter, who
shall hold his office for the term of six
years from the first Monday in January
ensuing his election. The returns of said
election shall be made to the Governor,
and in the event of a tie between two or
more candidates, the Governor shall
direct a new election to be held by writs
to the Sheriffs of the several counties,
and of the City of Baltimore; who shall
hold said election after at least twenty
days' notice, exclusive of the day of
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election. He shall perform such duties
as are now required of the Commissioner
of the Land Office, or such as may here-
after be prescribed by law, and shall also
be the Keeper of the Chancery Records.
He shall receive a salary of two thousand
dollars per annum, to be paid out of the"
Treasury, and shall charge such fees as
are now or may be hereafter fixed by
law. He shall make a semi-annual report
of all the fees of his office, both as Com-
missioner of the Land Office and as
Keeper of the Chancery Records, to the
Comptroller of the Treasury., and shall
pay the same semi-annually into the
Treasury. In case of vacancy in said
office by death, resignation or other
cause, the Governor shall fill such
vacancy until the next general election
for members of the General Assembly
thereafter, when a Commissioner of the
Land Office shall be elected for the full
term of six years ensuing.
Sec. 4. The State Librarian shall be
elected by a joint vote of the two
branches of the General Assembly for
four years and until his successor shall
be elected and qualified. His salary shall
be fifteen hundred dollars per annum,
and the General Assembly shall pass no
law whereby he shall receive any addi-
tional compensation. He shall perform
such duties as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law. In case of a
vacancy in the office of State Librarian
from death, resignation or other cause,
the Governor shall fill such vacancy
until the next meeting of the General
Assembly thereafter, and until a succes-
sor be elected and qualified.
Sec. 5. The County Commissioners
shall be elected, on general ticket, by the
qualified voters of the several counties
in this State; an election for County
Commissioners shall be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday
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