TALBOT COUNTY. 4661

1929, ch. 205, sec. 6.

485. Nothing in this Act contained is intended or shall be taken or
construed to relieve the Commissioners of St. Michaels from any and all
provisions of Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1910 of the General Assembly
of Maryland, known as the Public Service Commission Law, or any
amendments thereto.

UTILITIES COMMISSION.

1918. ch. 48, sec. 1.

486. The Commissioners of St. Michaels are hereby authorized and
empowered to appoint three citizens of the said town to constitute a Utility
Commission to have charge of the lighting of the streets of said town and
supplying the citizens thereof and vicinity with electrical light and power.

1918, ch. 48, sec. 2.

487. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of St. Michaels on or
before June 15th, 1918, to appoint three citizens of the town of St.
Michaels, to wit: Sol Caplan, Norman H. Shannahan and H. Clay Dod-
son to serve respectively for the remainder of one, two and three years,
each from June 15th, 1918, as Utility Commission of St. Michaels, which
Commission shall have charge of the municipal lighting plant or system
of St. Michaels hereafter acquired by the Town and each successive year
thereafter appoint one member of said Commission to serve for three
years from Jan. 1st of the year for which he shall be appointed, but if
a vacancy shall occur at any time by reason of death, resignation, removal
from office or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by the Commissioners
of St. Michaels in the same way as provided for in the original appoint-
ment, by the appointment of a suitable person to serve for the remainder
of the term of the member whose death, resignation, removal from office
the vacancy was created. The Commission so appointed shall have full
charge of the operation, management and maintenance of the utility here-
in referred to, including the power to make contracts in the name of the
Commissioners of St. Michaels, to sue in the name of the Commissioners
of St. Michaels for the collection of any or all indebtedness due said com-
mission, or for the performance of contracts made with the Commission;
to purchase material, employ all such assistants, skilled or unskilled, and
labor as may be necessary for the proper performance of the duties, and
to fix their compensation; to make such rules and regulations for the man-
agement of said electrical plant or system under their charge and for
their own government as they deem proper, to make extensions, additions
or improvements to the plant or system, provided the approval of the
Commissioners of St. Michaels shall be first secured, where the costs of
such extension, addition or improvements exceed five hundred ($500.00)
dollars and provided that where the aggregate cost of any extension, addi-
tion or improvement shall exceed two hundred ($200.00) dollars the Com-
mission shall secure competitive bids for the purchase of all material for