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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

cause operating such vacancy, either actually or in effect.

shall be filled by the Mayor in the manner and subject to all the

conditions as to minority representation and removal herein-

before provided for as to original appointees to said Commis-

sion. The members of said Commission other than the Mayor

Salaries.

shall receive compensation for their services at the rate of three

thousand five hundred dollars per annum, except the chairman

thereof, who shall receive compensation at the rate of four

thousand dollars per annum. A majority of the members

of said Commission shall be a lawful quorum for the trans-

action of business. So soon as the appointive members of said

Commission shall have qualified they shall, with the Mayor act-

ing as a member of said Commission ex-officio, organize by

the election of one of the members of said Commission as

chairman's

chairman of said Commission, who shall be removable at

duties.

pleasure by said Commission, and shall preside over the meet-

ings of said Commission and perform such other duties as are

imposed on him by this Act or may be assigned to him by said

Commission ; and by the election of a secretary, not a member

of said Commission, who shall be removable at pleasure by said

Commission, shall receive such compensation as it may deter-

mine, not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars per

annum, and shall enter in a well-bound book or books and

carefully preserve neat, legible and accurate minutes of all

meetings and record of all proceedings of said Commission,

and make true copies of all notices by said Commission directed

to be published, and of the certificates of the publication thereof,

and perform such other duties as usually appertain to the office

of secretary of a private corporation, or as are imposed on

him by this Act, or as may be assigned to him by said Com-

mission all records; records of said Commission shall be pub-

lic records, and it shall semi-annually make to the Mayor a de-

tailed report of its official transactions and of all its expendi-

tures. And said Commission may employ an engineer, city sur-

Employment
of assistants

veyor and such agents, assistants, clerks, employees and labor-

ers, skilled and unskilled, as it may deem requisite for the per-

formance of the duties and the execution of the powers im-

posed and conferred on it by this Act, and shall fix their respec-

tive compensations, and shall have power to retrieve or dis-

charge them at its pleasure. The Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore shall provide proper offices for said Commission.

Said commission shall include in its expenditures and certify

to the proper city authority or authorities any amounts due to

such conveyances and assistants as the City Solicitor may em-

ploy, in addition to the ordinary force of his office, for the pur-