718 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

employed by him shall be three thousand dollars; and the annual salary
of the chief stenographer employed by him shall be one thousand five
hundred dollars; the salary of each of the other stenographers employed
by the general counsel shall be ascertained in the manner herein pre-
scribed for the ascertainment of the compensation or salary of the
general employees of the commission.

The general counsel shall also receive, as additional compensation,
the sum of $1,800 per annum, which shall be paid out of its funds by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore to said general counsel, as an
employee of said municipal corporation.

It shall be the duty of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and
it is hereby directed and required to pay out of its funds the salaries
and compensations provided and prescribed by this sub-title to be paid
by it, and it shall pay said salaries and compensations to the said several
commissioners and general counsel of said commission in monthly
installments, payable at the same time and in the same manner in all
respects as the salary and compensation of the mayor of said municipal
corporation is paid to him by it.

The said commission shall have a secretary, to be appointed by it
and to hold office at its pleasure. It shall be the duty of the secretary
to keep a full and true record of all the proceedings of the commission,
of all books, maps, documents and papers ordered filed by the commis-
sion, and of all orders made by each of the commissioners, and of all
orders made by the commission or approved and confirmed by it and
ordered filed, and he shall be responsible to it for the safe custody and
preservation of all such documents at its office. Under the direction of
the commission, the secretary shall have general charge of its office,
superintend the clerical business and perform such other duties as the
commission may prescribe. He shall have power and authority to
administer oaths in all parts whatsoever of the State, so far as the
exercise of such power is properly incidental to the performance of
his duties or that of the commission. The secretary shall designate
from time to time one of the clerks appointed by the commission to
perform the duties of secretary during his absence, and during such
time the clerk so designated shall, at the office, possess the powers of
the secretary of the commission. The annual salary of the secretary
shall be three thousand dollars ($3,000).

The commission shall have the power, subject to the approval, in
writing, by the governor, in each and every instance, to employ such
officers, clerks, stenographers, typewriters, inspectors, experts and em-
ployees as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this sub-
title or to perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred by law
upon the commission; no person, however, shall be appointed or
employed by the commission in any position whatsoever, unless the
commission shall certify to the governor that it deems such appoint-
ment or employment, and the compensation or annual salary which it
proposed shall be paid in each instance, actually necessary for carrying