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ating such a vacancy, either actually or in effect, shall be filled by the
Mayor in the manner and subject to all the conditions as to minority
representation, qualification and removal hereinbefore provided for as to

original appointees to said commission. All the members of said com-
mission shall receive such compensation as the Mayor and City Council
shall by ordinance provide, not, however, to exceed for the chairman the
sum of three thousand dollars and for the other members' of said com-
mission a; sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars each; and a majority
of said members shall be a lawful quorum for the transaction of business;
and said commission shall be taken as superseding in every respect the
Sewerage Commission of the City of Baltimore (assuming that said last
mentioned commission is not already functus officio) appointed under
Resolution No. 189 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved
May 25, 1893, and continued (or attempted to be continued) by the terms
of Ordinance No. 2 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved
November 14, 1899; and shall be entitled to the possession and custody
of all maps, plats, blue prints, sketches, books, papers, documents, writ-
ings, letters and chattels in the possession of said last mentioned com-
mission ; and, so soon as the appointed members of said commission shall
be qualified, they shall, with the Mayor acting as a member of said com-
mission ex officio, organize by the election of one of the members of said
commission as chairman of said commission, who shall be removable at
pleasure by said commission, and shall receive such compensation as it
may determine, not exceeding the sum of of three thousand dollars per
annum, and shall preside over the meetings of said commission and per-
form such other duties as are imposed upon him by this Act, or as may
be assigned to him by said commission, and by the election of a secretary,
not a member of said commission, who shall be removable at pleasure by
said commission, and shall receive such compensation as it may determine,
not exceeding the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and
shall enter into a well-bound book and carefully preserve neat, legible and
accurate minutes of all meetings of said commission and perform such
other duties as usually appertain to the office of secretary of a private
corporation or as are imposed upon him by this Act or as may be assigned
to him by said commission. All sessions or meetings of said commission
shall be open and public and all its records shall be public records, and it
shall aconually make to the Mayor a detailed report of all its official trans-
actions and expenditures.
See notes to section 824N.

1904. ch. 349. sec. 2.

824B. Said Commission shall be charged with the duty of projecting,

constructing and establishing a sewerage system for the collection, trans-
mission and disposal of the house and other sewage and drainage of the
City of Baltimore, including, either as a combined or separate feature of
said system the collection, transmission and disposal of storm and ground
water, respectively, and shall be clothed with each and every and all pow-