LICENSES. 1985

ing the passage and approval of this Act. Thereafter the term shall be
six years. The Commission shall maintain general offices for the trans-
action of its business in the City of Baltimore. The members of the Com-
mission shall, at their first meeting after their appointment, elect one of
their number chairman of the Commission and shall adopt a seal for the
Commission, and may make such rules for the administration of their
office, not inconsistent herewith, as they may deem expedient; and they
may hereafter amend or abrogate such rules. Two of the members of the
Commission shall constitute a quorum to do business; and the concurrence
of at least two commissioners shall be necessary to render a choice or
decision by the Commission, and each member of the Commission shall
be entitled to receive his actual and necessary traveling expenses and other
expenses incurred by him in the performance of his official duties, and in
addition thereto the chairman of said Commission shall receive an annual
salary of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars, and each of the other com-
missioners shall receive a salary of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars,
said expenses and said salaries shall be payable out of the license fees
hereinafter provided. Each of said commissioners shall give bond to the
State of Maryland in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned
upon the faithful performance of his duties.

1920, ch. 710, sec. 116B. 1922, ch. 385, sec. 116B.

138. The Commission shall appoint, and at pleasure remove, a secre-
tary to the Commission, whose duty it shall be to keep a full and true
record of all its proceedings, preserve at its general offices all its books,
documents and papers, prepare for service such notices and other papers
as may be required of him by the Commission, and to perform such other
duties as the Commission may prescribe, and may, under the direction of
the Commission, issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses before
the Commission with the same effect as if they were issued in an action
in the courts of this State, and may, under the direction of the Commission,
administer oaths in all matters pertaining to the duties of his office or
connected with the administration of the affairs of the Commission. Diso-
bedience of such a subpoena and false swearing before such secretary shall
be attended by the same consequence and be subject to the same penalties
as if such disobedience or false swearing occurred in an action in the
courts of this State. The secretary of the Commission shall receive a
salary of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum and shall be
entitled to receive his actual and necessary traveling and other necessary
expenses incurred by him in the performance of his official duties, payable
out of said fees. The Commission shall annually make to the Governor a
full report of its proceedings for the year ending June 1st each year, and
may submit with such report such recommendations pertaining to. its
affairs as to it shall seem desirable. At the time of making said report
said Commission shall transmit to the Governor a full and detailed state-
ment of all its receipts and disbursements during the preceding year.