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of the treasury out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and the
comptroller of the treasury is hereby directed to draw his warrant
upon the treasurer for said amounts upon the certificate of the said
geological and economic survey commission. And for the purpose of
continuing the work on said state road No. 1, by paving and curbing
Columbia avenue easterly from the Baltimore city limits to the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad tracks, the sum of $8,000 per year for each
of said three years is hereby appropriated out of said moneys to be paid
in like manner,

190G. ch. 312, sec. 7.

32. And the said commission is hereby authorized to purchase such
machinery, teams, implements and materials, and employ such assist-
ants as may be necessary to the proper construction of said road or
highway out of the sums appropriated by section 31, and use the same
in the construction of said road or highway, and after its completion
the same shall be and remain as the property of the State of Maryland.

Public Roads.*

1908, ch. 141, sec. 32 A.

33. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint
promptly after March 25, 1908, three competent persons, citizens and
residents of this State, and to designate two men from the Maryland
geological and economic survey, or its officers or employes, who, with
the governor, ex officio, shall constitute a special commission to be known
as the "State Roads Commission," and who shall continue in office
until the work of said commission shall have been completed as herein
provided. The governor shall have the power, in his discretion, to-
remove any member of said commission at any time and to appoint
another person in his stead and to fill any vacancy in said commission
occasioned by the resignation, removal, death, incapacity, permanent
absence from this State of any member of said commission, or by
reason of any other cause creating a vacancy. The majority of the
members of said commission shall be a lawful quorum for the transac-
tion of business. The chairman of said commission shall be designated
by the governor from the members thereof, and the governor shall also
have power to remove such chairman and to appoint another in his
stead in his discretion. The chairman of said commission shall preside
over its meetings and perform such other duties as are imposed on him
by this act or as may be assigned to him by said commission. The
members of said commission, other than the governor, the chairman and
the two men designated by the governor from the Maryland geological
and economic survey, its officers or members, shall each receive as

*There being some doubt as to whether the words "this act" as used in many
of the sections of the act of 1908. ch. 141, and of the act of 1910. ch. 116, refer to
the entire sub-title "Public Roads", or only to. the act of 1908. ch. 141, or the act
of 1910, ch. 316. as the case may be, it is thought best not to attempt to determine
the question, and hence, where these words occur in sections 33 to 62, they are
reproduced from the official acts without change.