2824 ARTICLE 91.

opinion of the commission will be of the greatest benefit to the agricul-
tural, industrial, geological and military requirements of the State of
Maryland, and to publish special reports dealing with the various min-
eral products and with the natural resources of each county in the State of
Maryland.

An. Code, see. 25. 1904, sec. 25. 1896, ch. 51. 1898, ch. 129, sec. 3.

25. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this sub-title,
the sum of fifteen thousand dollars annually, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated, and the said amount shall be drawn from the treasury
by the said commission in the same manner as the other funds of the
survey.

Grade Crossings.

An. Code, sec. 29. 1906, ch. 312, sec. 4.

26. Whenever any railroad or railway company hereafter constructed
shall cross said road it shall be required to keep its own road-bed and the
bed of the said highway in proper repair or else to have constructed an
overhead or undergrade crossing subject to the approval of the said com-
mission or in conformity to the provisions of article 23 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws as to crossings of railroad companies in re-
gard to flagmen and electric bells; and the tracks of such railroads or rail-
ways shall be so constructed as to give absolutely safe and easy approach to
and crossing thereof; and in case of failure so to construct, the said com-
mission shall construct the same, and upon certification of said construc-
tion and the cost thereof, after due notification to such company to con-
struct and its failure so to do the cost thereof shall ex parte be rendered a
judgment against such company by any justice of the peace in such coun-
ties before whom such proceedings shall have been instituted.

Public Roads.

An. Code, sec. 33. 1908, ch. 141, sec. 32A. 1918, ch. 224, sec. 33. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 33 (p. 64).

27.1 The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint three
competent persons, citizens and residents of this State, who shall consti-
tute a special commission, to be known as the " State Roads Commission."
In making appointments to and selection for members of the State Roads
Commission, the Governor shall always so make his selection and appoint-
ments, that at least one member of the State Roads Commission shall bona
fide belong to or be affiliated with that one of the two leading political
parties in the State opposite to the Governor's own political party. The
Governor shall have the power, in his discretion, to remove any member
of said Commission at any time, and to appoint another person in his
stead, and to fill any vacancy in said Commission occasioned by the resig-
nation, removal, death, incapacity, permanent absence from this State,

1 Ch. 511 of 1920 makes the fiscal year of the state roads commission coincident with
that of the state, viz., October 1 to September 30.