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fore provided for as to original appointees to said Commission. All the
members of said Commission except the Chairman thereof, as hereinafter
provided, shall serve without compensation, and a majority of said mem-
bers shall be a lawful quorum for the transaction of business. So soon
as the appointive members of said commission shall have qualified they
shall, with the Mayor acting as a member of said commission, 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, shall receive such compensation as it may determine,
not exceeding the sum of $2,500 per annum, and shall preside over the
meetings of said Commission and perform such other duties as are im-
posed upon him by this Act, or as may be assigned to him by said Com-
mission, and by the election of a secretary, not a member of said Com-
mission, who shall be removable at pleasure by said Commission, shall
receive such compensation as it may determine, not exceeding the sum of
$1,500 per annum and shall enter in a well-bound book and carefully pre-
serve neat, legible and accurate minutes of all meetings of said Commis-
sion, 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 annually make to the Mayor a detailed
report of all its official transactions and expenditures.

1906, ch. 401, sec. 2. 1908, ch. 202.

841V. That the said Commission be and it is hereby empowered to
grade, shell, gravel, macadamize, pave or otherwise surface and curb;
re-grade, re-shell, re-gravel, re-macadamize, re-pave or otherwise re-surface
and re-curb, according to such general comprehensive plan or plans in
the premises as may be adopted by it, all such public lanes, alleys, ave-
nues, streets or highways, or all such parts thereof in the City of Balti-
more, as in the judgment of the said Commission should be so graded,
shelled, gravelled, macadamized, paved or otherwise surfaced and curbed,
re-graded, re-shelled, re-graveled, re-macadamized, re-paved or otherwise
re-surfaced or re-curbed. And at the election of said Commission to assess
the cost of any such work, in whole or in part, upon the property binding
upon such public lanes, alleys, avenues, streets or highways, according to
such mode of procedure as shall be prescribed by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore by ordinance or ordinances, which ordinance or ordi-
nances the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby empowered
to pass; provided, however, that reasonable notice and opportunity to be
heard shall be required by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
be given, and shall be given by said Commission to all persons interested
before the final ascertainment of the amount of assessment to be paid by
any such property; and provided, however, further, that provision shall
be made by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the right of
appeal to the Baltimore City Court, including the right of appeal to the