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of any member of said Commission, or by reason of any other cause
creating a vacancy. One member of said Commission shall receive a
salary of two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum, and shall
be named by the Governor as Chairman of said Commission and be known
as the Director of the Department; the two associate members of said
Commission shall each serve without pay. A majority of the members of
said Commission shall be a lawful quorum for the transaction of business.
The Chairman of said Commission shall preside over its meetings, and
perform such other duties as are imposed on him by law, or as may be
assigned to him by said Commission. The Commissioners shall take the
oath prescribed by Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State.
As soon as the members of said Commission shall have met and qualified,
they shall organize by the election of a secretary, not a member of said
Commission, who shall be removable at the pleasure of said Commission,
and who shall receive such compensation as the Commission may deter-
mine, and as may be provided in the Budget. He shall enter in the journal
of said Commission and shall carefully preserve neat, legible, full and
accurate minutes of all meetings and records of all proceedings of said
Commission, and make true copies of all notices directed by said Com-
mission to be published, and of the certificates of publication thereof, and
shall perform such other duties as shall appertain to the office of secretary
of a private corporation, or as are imposed on him by law, or as may be
assigned to him by said Commission. All records of said Commission
shall be public records, and the Commission shall, annually, make to the
Governor a detailed report of its official transactions, and of all its expen-
ditures and of all liabilities incurred by it. The said Commission may
employ such chief engineer, assistant engineer, professional or technical
experts, surveyors, agents, assistants, clerks, employees and laborers,
skilled and unskilled, and also such advisers and consultants as it may
deem requisite for the performance and execution of the powers and duties
imposed and conferred by law, and shall fix their respective compensa-
tions. Said Commissioners shall have power to exact from any person
employed by it such indemnity bond for the faithful performance of duty
as the Commission may deem proper, and said Commissioners may remove
any of said persons from their positions, but only in the manner herein-
after provided. And said Commission may also rent or lease all proper
and necessary offices and other places which it may deem proper and neces-
sary for the performance of its duties and the purposes of law. The said
Commission shall keep a journal in which shall be entered all its pro-
ceedings in detail, the correctness of the same to be attested at each suc-
ceeding meeting by the President and Secretary of the Commission. Said
Commission shall also keep books showing in detail all expenditures of
money in every County of the State in connection with the establishment,
improvement or maintenance of roads, and in connection with all work
whatsoever of the Commission which books and records shall be open to
the inspection of any taxpayer of the State, at any time. No member of
said Commission shall become pecuniarily interested in any contract for
work done or materials provided in connection with any of the work of