EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Sewerage
Commission.

land, That the Mayor of the City of Baltimore be and he is

hereby authorized to appoint in the manner prescribed by

Section 25 of Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore," of the

Public Local Laws of Maryland, and subject to the condition

that three appointees shall be members of the minority party

within the meaning of Section 30 of said Article, six capable

and upright citizens of the City of Baltimore, who, together

with the Mayor himself ex-offcio, shall constitute a special

commission, to be known as the Sewerage Commission of the

City of Baltimore, and who shall continue in office from year

to year until the work of said commission under this Act has

been fully and finally completed in every respect. If, however,

the Second Branch of the City Council of the City of Baltimore

shall reject three several and successive nominations by the

Mayor to any position on said commission, he shall be em-

powered to make an appointment thereto without its confirm-

ation. No municipal official or other officer of the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore, whether holding a paid or an

unpaid office or position under the said corporation, shall be

eligible for appointment to said commission, and all persons

Municipal of-

appointed to said commission shall qualify and be subject to

ficers not eli-
gible to

removal by the Mayor, except that there shall be no removal

appointment

at any time save for cause after charges preferred, as prescribed

on same.

by said Section 25 of Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore,"

of the Public Local Laws of Maryland. Any member of said

commission may at any time resign therefrom by tendering

his resignation in writing to the Mayor, and any vacancy in

said commission occasioned by the resignation, removal, death

or permanent absence from this State of the incumbent, or by

supervening- incapacity upon his part, whether physical or

mental, to discharge his duties, or by any other cause operat-

ing such a 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, qualification and removal here-

inbefore provided for as to original appointees to said commis-

sion. All the members of said commission shall receive such

compensation as the Mayor and City Council shall by ordinance

provide, not, however, to exceed for the chairman the sum of

three thousand dollars and for the other members of said

commission a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars each ;

Compensation.

and a majority of said members shall be a lawful quorum for

the transaction of business ; and said commission shall be taken

as superseding in every, respect the Sewerage Commission of

the City of Baltimore (assuming that said last mentioned com-