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City. Not more than two of said Commissioners shall be of the same
political party, and each of them shall be a taxpayer and qualified voter of
this State. Each of said Commissioners, before entering upon the duties
of his office shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, to be ad-
ministered by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County or the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, according to the residence of each Commissioner,
and to the Clerk of which Court, the Governor shall forward a commission
to such Commissioner. The term of office of the members of said Com-
mission shall be six years, commencing on the first Monday in June next
ensuing their respective appointments, and said Commissioners shall hold
office until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. The
term of office of each of the Commissioners now serving and the member of
said Commission now holding the designation of Chairman, shall not be
extended or diminished by the passage of this statute, but each member
and the Chairman shall continue as such for the balance of the term for
which said Commissioners and Chairman were appointed. In case of any
vacancy, the Governor shall appoint a successor for the unexpired term,
subject to the limitations and qualifications contained herein. The Chair-
man of said Commission shall receive a salary of $6, 000 per annum and
each of the two other members shall receive a salary of $5, 000, said
salaries to be payable out of the Treasury of the State¹ and be subject to
Article 3, Section 35 of the Constitution.

See secs. 41, 92, 96. 135, 138 and 141.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 159.

159. The said Commission shall have a Secretary to be appointed by
it, who shall keep a full and true record of all proceedings of the Commis-

sion, of all books, maps, documents and papers filed with said Commission,
and of all orders made by said Commission, and he shall be responsible to
said Commission for the suitable preservation and custody of all such docu-
ments. Under the direction of the Commission, the Secretary shall have
general charge of its office, superintend the clerical business and perform
such other duties as the Commission may prescribe. He shall have power
and authority to administer oaths in all parts whatsoever of the State, so
far as the exercise of such power is properly incidental to the performance
of his duties or those of the Commission, and said Commission may from
time to time, in a recorded minute of its proceedings, designate one or
more of its clerks to administer oaths pursuant to the performance of duties
assigned to such clerk by the Commission. The Commission shall desig-
nate from time to time one of its clerks to perform the duties of the Secre-
tary during his absence, and during such time the clerk so designated
shall, at the office, perform the duties of the Secretary for the Commission.
The annual salary of the Secretary shall be $4, 000 per annum, payable

out of the Treasury of the State.

1929, ch. 226. sec. 160.

160. The Commission shall have power to employ such clerks, stenog-
raphers, typewriters, inspectors and other employees as it may deem nec-