signing are registered voters shall be evidenced by the affi-
davit of one or more registered voters of the city or county
in which said voters so signing are registered, and one affi-
davit may apply to or cover any number of signatures to
such petition. The false signing of any name, or the signing
of any fictitious name to said petition shall be forgery, and
the making of any false affidavit in connection with said
petition shall be perjury.

ARTICLE XII.
PUBLIC WORKS.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury and the Treasurer shall constitute the Board of Public
Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of their pro-
ceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the City of An-
napolis on the first Wednesday in January, April, July and
October in each year, and oftener if necessary; at which
sessions they shall bear and determine such matters as affect
the public works of the State, and as the General Assembly
may confer upon them the power to decide.

SEC. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful super-
vision of all public works in which the State may be inter-
ested as stockholder or creditor, and shall represent and
vote the stock of the State of Maryland in all meetings of
the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and
shall appoint the directors in every railroad and canal com-
pany in which the State has the legal power to appoint di-
rectors, which said directors shall represent the State in all
meetings of the stockholders of the respective companies for
which they are appointed or elected. And the president and
directors of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
shall so regulate the tolls of said company from time to
time as to produce the largest amount of revenue, and to
avoid the injurious effect to said company of rival compe-
tition by other internal improvement companies. They shall
require the directors of all said public works to guard the
public interest and prevent the establishment of tolls which
shall discriminate against the interest of the citizens or
products of this State and from time to time, and as often
as there shall be any change in the rates of toll on any of
the said works, to furnish the said Board of Public Works a
schedule of such modified rates of toll, and so adjust them
as to promote the agricultural interests of the State; they
shall report to the General Assembly at each regular session,
and recommend such legislation as they may deem necessary