370 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 12, Sec. 1]

land. The General Assembly may place such other and
further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any
of the powers which it may grant to the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article
as it may deem proper and expedient.

ARTICLE XII.
PUBLIC WORKS.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the
Treasury and the Treasurer, shall constitute the Board of
Public Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of
their proceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the
City of Annapolis, on the first Wednesday in January, April,
July and October, in each year, and oftener, if necessary;

at which sessions they shall hear and determine such mat-
ters as affect the Public Works of the State, and as the Gen-
eral Assembly may co.nfer upon them the power to decide.

SEC. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful su-
pervision of all Public Works in which the State may be
interested 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
Company, in which the State has the legal power to appoint
Directors, 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 Com-
pany 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
competition 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 and requisite to promote or pro-
tect 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 compe-
tent to act. The Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer