126 ARTICLE 23.

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 employees 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 appointment or employment, and the compensation or
annual salary which it proposed shall be paid in each instance, actually nec-
essary for carrying out the purposes and requirements of this sub-title, and
unless the Governor shall thereupon approve in writing such appointment
or employment, and such compensation or annual salary or salaries. If in
any case the commission cannot ascertain in advance the value of any serv-
ice to be rendered to it or the proper compensation to be paid therefor, it
shall certify such fact to the Governor, who may authorize the employment
or acquisition of the service in question, leaving the value or compensation
thereof to be ascertained by subsequent agreement or adjustment.

Each commissioner and each person appointed to office or employment
by the Governor or by the commission, with the approval of the Governor,
shall before entering upon the duties of his office or employment, take and
subscribe to the constitutional oath of office. No person shall be eligible
for appointment or shall hold the office of commissioner, or be appointed
by the commission to or hold any office or position under the commission,
who holds any official relation to any common carrier, railroad corporation,
street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, tele-
phone corporation, telegraph corporation, water company, heat and refrig-
erating company, transportation of property or freight company, or other
public service corporation subject to any of the provisions of this sub-title,
or who owns stock or bonds therein or who has any pecuniary interest
therein.

This section referred to in holding that legislative practice reveals tendency

to limit, not extend, Governor's power of removal. Removal of postmasters.

Myers v. U. S., 272 U. S. 249, 71 L. Ed. 221 (dissenting opinion).

1927, ch. 196.

349A. The Commission shall have full power and authority to make-
joint investigations, hold joint hearings, and issue joint or concurrent
orders in conjunction or concurrence with any official board or commission
of any state or of the United States, whether in the holding of such investi-
gations or hearings or in the making of such orders the Commission shall
function under agreements or compacts between states, or under the con-
current power of states to regulate interstate commerce, or as an agency
of the Federal Government, or otherwise.

350.

Commission has no jurisdiction to authorize sale by municipality of property
dedicated to public use: powers conferred upon commission are of a regulatory
nature and do not include either granting or withdrawal of franchises. Wor-
cester v. Hancock, 151 Md. 678.