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sary laborers, help and assistants, skilled and unskilled, and perform the
work under their own supervision. The costs and expenses of said work,
and all necessary expenses of this commission to be paid out of the loan,
as provided in Section 1 of this Act, upon vouchers, approved by the said
commission or its chairman, and presented to the Comptroller and City
Register of the City of Baltimore.

1904, ch. 274, sec. S.

841H. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall prescribe by
ordinance the methods and proceedings for the sewerage and drainage of
said Annex and to provide the costs and expenses of same out of any
fund or funds now or hereafter available.

1904, ch. 274, sec. 9.

841-I. The said commission is hereby authorized as its work progresses
to turn over from time to time, such completed portions of said work as;
it may see fit to the charge, superintendence and control of the proper
city officials, and shall on the termination of its work turn over all the
records, writings, maps, reports to the Commissioners for Opening Streets,
to be by them preserved and to be used as the papers and records of their
office.

1904, ch. 274, sec. 10.

841J. Provided, however, in lieu of said commission hereinbefore pro-
vided for in Section 2 of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more may by ordinance authorize and empower the Commissioners for
Opening Streets of Baltimore City to perform the duties and functions
in this bill heretofore provided for the said commission.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 1.

841K. That the Commissioners for Opening Streets of the City of
Baltimore are hereby constituted a commission to be known as the Annex
Improvement Commission, and as such in addition to their ordinary
duties are hereby vested and clothed with all the powers and rights iu
this Act contained, and are hereby authorized, empowered and directed
to carry into effect all the provisions of this Act. As compensation for
their services hereunder the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may
in its discretion award the said Commissioners such annual sum as it may
deem proper in addition to the compensation to which they are respectively
entitled for discharging the ordinary duties of their office, provided that
the total compensation received by each of said Commissioners shall in
no event exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars
per annum. The clerk of said Commissioners shall act as their secretary
in connection with the powers and duties hereby conferred, and for his
services in this connection, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may,
in its discretion, award him such annual sun; as it may deem proper, in
addition to the compensation to which he is entitled for discharging the
ordinary duties of his office as clerk; provided that his total compensa-