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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

mission is not already functns officio) appointed under Reso-

lution No. 189 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,

approved May 25, 1893. and continued (or atternpted to be

continued) by the terms of Ordinance No. 2 of the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore, approved November 14, 1899; and

Custody of
maps, plats,

shall be entitled to the possession and custody of all maps,

etc.

plats, blue prints, sketches, books, papers, documents, writings,

letters and chattels in the possession of said last mentioned

commission ; and. so soon as the appointive members of said

commission shall have qualified, they shall, with the Mayor

acting as a member of said commission ex-officio, organize

by the election of one of the members of said commission as

chairman of said commission, who shall be removable at

pleasure by said commission, and shall receive such compensa-

tion as it may determine, not exceeding the sum of three thou-

sand dollars per annum, and shall preside over the meetings

of said commission and perform such other duties as are im-

posed upon him by this Act, or as may be assigned to him by

said commission, and bv the election of a secretary, not a mem-

ber of said commission, who shall be removable at pleasure

bv said commission, and shall receive such compensation as it

may determine, not exceeding' the sum of twenty-five hundred

dollars per annum, and shall enter into a well-bound book

and carefully preserve neat, legible and accurate minutes of all

meetings of said commission and perform such other duties

as usually appertain to the office of secretary of a private cor-

poration or as are imposed upon him by this Act or as may

be assigned to him by said commission. All sessions or meet-

Meetings to
be public.

ings of said commission shall be open and public and all its

records shall be public records, and it shall annually make to

the Mayor a detailed report of all its official transactions and

expenditures.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That said commission shall be

charged with the duty of projecting, constructing and estab-

Duties of
Commission.

lishing a sewerage system for the collection, transmission and

disposal of the house and other sewage and drainage of the

City of Baltimore, including, either as a combined or separate

feature of said system the collection, transmission and dis-

posal of storm and ground water, respectively, and shall be

clothed with each and every and all powers which, by anything

short of a palpably forced constructtion, may be held to be

necessary or proper for these purposes, or either of them,

among which powers shall be the following, that is to say :