EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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scribe ; provided, however, that not more than five hundred

thousand dollars of said stock shall be issued in any one year.

The proceeds of the sale of said stock shall be used only for

the purpose of providing the costs and expenses of condemn-

ing, opening, grading, paving and curbing the streets, avenues,

lanes and alleys of the Annex portion of Baltimore City. The

certificates of stock shall not be issued and the commission

hereinafter created shall not be appointed unless and until the

ordinance which the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

are hereby authorized to pass for the purpose aforesaid shall be

approved by a majority of the votes of the legal voters of the

City of Baltimore, cast at the time and place to be appointed

by said ordinance in the provisions for submitting the same

to the legal voters of said city.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor of the City of

Annex Im-

Baltimore (if the loan provided for in the preceding section

provement

of this Act shall be approved) is hereby authorized to appoint,

Commission.

in the manner prescribed in Section 25 of Article 4, entitled

"City of Baltimore," of the Public Local Laws of Maryland,

four capable and upright citizens, property owners and resi-

dents of "the Annex portion of Baltimore City, two of whom

shall be members of the Republican party, who, together with

the Mayor, Comptroller, City Engineer and Commissioner

for Opening Streets, as ex-officio members, shall constitute

a special commission, to be known as the "Annex Improvement

Commission," and who shall continue in office until the work

of said commission has been completed ; in case of death, resig-

nation or removal from office of any of said commission, the

Mayor shall have authority to appoint another to fill said

vacancy. The members of said commission, other than the

ex-officio members, shall receive compensation for their services

Compensation

at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, except the

for services

chairman thereof, who shall receive compensation at the rate of

rendered.

two thousand dollars per annum. A majority of the members

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

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

commission shall have qualified, they shall organize by the elec-

tion of one of its members as chairman of said commission, who

shall be removable at pleasure by said commission, and who

shall preside over the meetings 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 they shall elect a sec-

retary, not a member of said commission, who shall be remov-

Secretary.

able at pleasure of said commission, and receive compensation

not to exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum;