ART. 23] PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION——COUNSEL. 717

in the year nineteen hundred and ten (unless removed from office) and
until their successors, respectively, qualify according to law.

The governor may remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect
of duty, or misconduct in office, giving to him a copy of the charges
against him and an opportunity of being publicly heard in person or
by counsel, in his own defense, upon not less than ten days' notice. If
such commissioner shall be removed, the governor shall file in the office
of the secretary of state a complete statement of all charges made against
such commissioner, and his findings thereon, together with a complete
record of the proceedings.

The salary of each of said commissioners shall be three thousand
dollars ($3,000) per annum, payable out of the state treasury by the
State of Maryland; and in addition to said sum of three thousand
dollars per annum, the chairman of said commission shall also receive
the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, which shall be
paid out of its funds by the mayor and city council of Baltimore to-
said chairman of said commission as an employee of said municipal
corporation; and each of the other two commissioners shall receive, in
addition to said three thousand dollars per annum aforesaid, the sum
of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, which shall be paid out
of its funds by the mayor and city council of Baltimore to each of said
other two commissioners, as employees of said municipal corporation.

The governor shall, upon the recommendation of the commission,
appoint an attorney-at-law of the State of Maryland to be and act as
the general counsel to said public service commission. The term of
office of said general counsel shall be six years from the beginning of
his term of office. His term of office shall begin on the first Monday in
May, 1910, and his appointment shall be made and announced by the
governor not less than ten days before said last-mentioned date. The
governor may remove said general counsel for inefficiency, neglect of
duty or misconduct in office, giving him a copy of the charges against
him and an opportunity of being publicly heard in his own defense,
upon not less than ten days' notice. He shall be eligible for reappoint-
ment by the governor. He shall be allowed and have the right to
appoint an assistant, who shall be a member of the bar of the State of
Maryland, to aid him in the performance of his duties, and said general
counsel may remove such assistant at pleasure.

The governor may, if at any time he deems it necessary, authorize
and empower the general counsel to employ other attorneys-at-law as
additional assistants to said general counsel for the performance of such
extraordinary legal services for or in behalf of the public service com-
mission at such special compensation for such additional assistants as
the general counsel, with the written approval of the governor, may
ascertain and prescribe. Said general counsel may also employ a
stenographer and assistant stenographers in connection with the work
of his office. The annual salary of such general counsel shall be three
thousand dollars ($3,000), and the annual salary of the assistant