1152 ARTICLE 89B.

pensation as the Commission may determine, and as may be provided in
the Budget. He shall enter in the journal of said Commission and shall
carefully preserve neat, legible, full and accurate minutes of all meetings
and records of all proceedings of said Commission, and make true copies
of all notices directed by said Commission to be published, and of the
certificates of publication thereof, and shall perform such other duties as
shall appertain to the office of secretary of a private corporation, or as are
imposed on him by law, or as may be assigned to him by said Commission.
All records of said Commission shall be public records, and the Commis-
sion shall, annually, make to the Governor a detailed report of its official
transactions, and of all its expenditures and of all liabilities incurred by it.
The said Commission may employ such chief engineer, assistant engineer,
professional or technical experts, surveyors, agents, assistants, clerks, em-
ployees and laborers, skilled and unskilled, and also such advisers and con-
sultants as it may deem requisite for the performance and execution of the
powers and duties imposed and conferred by law, and shall fix their re-
spective compensations. Said Commissioners shall have power to exact
from any person employed by it such indemnity bond for the faithful per-
formance of duty as the Commission may deem proper, and said Commis-
sioners may remove any of said persons from their positions, but only in
the manner hereinafter provided. And said Commission may also rent or
lease all proper and necessary offices and other places which it may deem
proper and necessary for the performance of its duties and the purposes of
law. The said Commission shall keep a journal in which shall be entered
all its proceedings in detail, the correctness of the same to be attested at
each succeeding meeting by the Chairman and Secretary of the Commis-
sion. Said Commission shall also keep books showing in detail all expen-
ditures of money in the State in connection with the establishment or im-
provement of roads, and in connection with all work whatsoever of the
Commission, which books and records shall be open to the inspection of
any taxpayer of the State, at any time. No member of said Commission
shall become pecuniarily interested in any contract for work done or"
material provided in connection with any of the work of said Commission.
The Commission shall at the time of its organization, as aforesaid, and
thereafter from time to time, adopt such by-laws and rules of procedure
for the conduct of its business as it may deem necessary. It shall annually
compile and publish maps and statistics relating to the public roads of the
State and showing the progress and status of the work done or entered
upon by it and separately for the several counties. All maps, plans and
statistics made, collected and compiled under its direction shall be pre-
served in its office and shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer of the
State. All bills or claims on account of any of the work of the said Com-
mission or in any way relating to its duties or transactions shall be passed
upon by the Commission, and no obligation involving the expenditure of
more than fifty dollars, and no contract involving a larger expenditure
than fifty dollars, shall be allowed or made except by a majority vote of all
members of the Commission at a meeting thereof; all contracts,, agree