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	65. Power to regulate weights of vehi- cles passing over bridges. 66. Defacing or destroying sign boards. 67. Restriction as to placing signs along highways. 68. Width of right of way. 69. Saving clause. Bonds. 70-76. Commission authorized to issue ?4, 000, 000 of bonds; tax for pay- ment thereof. 77. Signatures on bonds.	78-84. Commission authorized to issue $3, 000, 000 of bonds; tax for pay- ment thereof. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Authority. 85-103. Members of Board; definitions; acquisition of franchises of Ches- apeake Bay Bridge Company and Claiborne-Annapolis Perry Com- pany; bonds for construction of bridge, approaches to bridge and for purchase of Ferry Company; powers.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 1.

1. The head of the Department of Public Works shall be the State
Roads Commission, constituted and organized as at present, except as
hereinafter provided, and having and exercising all the rights, powers,

duties, obligations and functions now or hereafter conferred by law.

An. Code, 1924, art. 91, sec. 27. 1912, art. 91, sec. 33. 1908, ch. 141, sec. 32A.
1918, ch. 224, sec. 33. 1922, ch. 29, sec. 33 (p. 64). 1931, ch. 539. sec. 1A.

1A. The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint three
competent persons, citizens and residents of this State, who shall constitute
a special commission, to be known as the "State Roads Commission. " In
making appointments to and selection for members of the State Roads
Commission, the Governor shall always so make his selection and appoint-
ments, that at least one member of the State Roads Commission shall bona
fide belong to or be affiliated with that one of the two leading political
parties in the State opposite to the Governor's own political party. The
Governor shall have the power, in his discretion, to remove any member of
said Commission at any time, and to appoint another person in his stead,
and to fill any vacancy in said Commission occasioned by the resignation,
removal, death, incapacity, permanent absence from this State, of any
member of said Commission, or by reason of any other cause creating a
vacancy. One member of said Commission shall be designated by the Gov-
ernor as Chairman of said Commission and be known as the Director of
the Department, he shall receive such salary as may be prescribed by the
Governor; the two associate members of said Commission shall each serve

without pay. A majority of the members of said Commission shall be a
lawful quorum for the transaction of business. The Chairman of said
Commission shall preside over its meetings, and perform such other duties
as are imposed on him by law, or as may be assigned to him by said Com-
mission. The Commissioners shall take the oath prescribed by Article 1,
Section 6 of the Constitution of the State. As soon as the members of said
Commission shall have met and qualified, they shall organize by the elec-
tion of a secretary, not a member of said Commission, who shall be remov-
able at the pleasure of said Commission, and who shall receive such com-