1296 ARTICLE 4.

tion shall in no event exceed the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars
per annum. The said secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of
the Commission, and shall enter in a well-bound book and carefully pre-
served, neat, .legible and accurate minutes of all meetings of the Com-
mission, and he shall perform all such other duties as usually appertain
to the office of secretary of a private corporation, or as may be imposed
upon him by this Act or as may be assigned to him by the Commission,
shall annually make to the Mayor a detailed report of all its official trans-
actions and expenditures. The said Commission shall have authority and
power, subject to the approval or ratification of the Board of Estimates,
to employ any help or assistance necessary to promote the object and pur-
pose of this Commission and its wort, and to fix the compensation of
such help and to remove or discharge them at their pleasure; also to pur-
chase necessary office furniture and stationery.

Commissioners for Opening Streets authorized to make assessments for benefits
in opening streets in the Annex.

Leon Laner v. M. & C. C. et al., 110 Md. 447.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 2.

841L. That upon the completion by the Annex Improvement Com-
mission created by Chapter 274 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1904 (the power and functions of which commission have
been and are being exercised by the Commissioners for Opening Streets
pursuant to Ordinance No. 216, of the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore, approved March 6, 1905), of all its work pending at the time of
the approval by the people of the loan hereby authorized, the said Com-
mission shall be taken to have been superseded in every respect by the
Commission hereby created, shall thereupon be entitled to the possession
and custody of all maps, plats, blue-prints, sketches, surveys, books, papers,
documents, writings, letters and chattels of and belonging to said former
Commission, and also to any unexpended balance remaining out of the
proceeds of the said loan authorized by the said Act of 1904, which unex-
pended balance, if any, shall be placed to the credit of the special fund
hereinafter provided for and used by the Commission created by this
Act in the manner authorized by this Act, for carrying out any of the
powers and duties hereby conferred.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 3.

841M. That said Commission shall have the right and power and
under and in pursuance of any general or special ordinance or ordinances
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore which may be passed therefor
to grade and pave any street, avenue, lane or alley or any part thereof from
curb to curb, and to establish and fix the building line and the width of
the sidewalk on any street, avenue, lane or alley now existing or to be laid
out, opened, extended, widened, straightened, graded or paved in the annex
portion of the city of Baltimore. That said Commission shall have all
powers necessary and proper in the exercise of said powers; and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore are hereby authorized and empowered to