260 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

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 sendees for or in behalf of the public service,
commission 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 coimsel 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
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 sev-
eral 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