ART. 91] PUBLIC ROADS. 1985

compensation for their services a salary of two thousand dollars
($2,000) per annum, payable in equal monthly instalments, and the
chairman shall receive a compensation at the rate of twenty-five hun-
dred dollars ($2,500) per annum, payable in equal monthly instal-
ments. The commissioners, other than the governor, shall take the oath
prescribed by article 1, section 6, of the constitution of the State. As
soon as the members of said commission shall have met and qualified
they shall organize by the election of a secretary, not a member of said
commission, who shall be removable at the pleasure of said commission,
and who shall receive such compensation as the commission shall deter-
mine, not exceeding the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per
annum. He shall enter in the journal of said commission and shall
carefully preserve neat, legible, full and accurate minutes of all meet-
ings and records of all proceedings of said commission, and make true
copies of all notices directed by said commission to be published and
of the certificates of publication thereof, and shall perform such other
duties as shall appertain to the office of secretary of a private corpora-
tion or as are imposed on him by this act, or as may be assigned to him
by said commission. All records of said commission shall be public
records, and the commission shall, annually, make to the governor a
detailed report of its official transactions, and of all its expenditures
and of all liabilities incurred by it. The said commission may employ
such chief engineer, assistant engineer, professional or technical expei ts,
surveyors, agents, assistants, clerks, employes and laborers, skilled and
unskilled, and also such advisers and consultants as it may deem requi-
site for the performance and execution of the powers and duties imposed
and conferred by this act, and shall fix their respective compensations,
and shall have the power to remove or discharge them at its pleasure;
and to exact from them or any of them such indemnity bonds for the
faithful performance of their respective duties as the commission may
deem proper. And said commission may also rent or lease all proper
and necessary offices and other places which it may deem proper and
necessary for the performance of its duties and the purposes of this act.
The said commission shall keep a journal in which shall be entered
all its proceedings in detail, the correctness of the same to be attested
at each succeeding meeting by the president and secretary of the com-
mission. Said commission shall also keep books showing in detail all
expenditures of money in every county of the State in connection with
the establishment, improvement or maintenance of roads, and in connec-
tion with all work whatsoever of the commission, which books and
records shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer of the State at
any time. No member of said commission shall become pecuniarily
interested in any contract for work done or materials provided in con-
nection with any of the work of said commission. The commission
shall at the time of its organization, as aforesaid, and thereafter from
time to time, adopt such by-laws and rules of procedure for the conduct