PUBLIC WORKS—BOARD OF 2997

make contracts for the services of such engineering, planning, admin-
istrative, legal, auditing, clerical or other force as from time to time in its
judgment may be necessary in the administration of this sub-title if and
when it shall have funds available for the payment of such persons, and
may require any employee to give bond with surety approved by and in a
sum to be fixed by the Commission.

1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 32, sec. 16.

16. The Commission is hereby designated by the State of Maryland
as the representative and agency of the State of Maryland for receiving
from the government of the United States of America, the Federal Emer-
gency Administration of Public Works, the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration, or any other agency of the United States, and for expending any
grant, loan or other sum of money made available by the United States of
America or its agencies for housing and park projects as herein provided;
and the Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into
such commitments and agreements with the United States of America as
in the discretion of the Commission may seem necessary in connection
therewith, and is further empowered to act in conjunction and cooperation
with other representatives of the United States of America or of any
municipality, county or local sub-division within this state. All public
officials of the State of Maryland and of the counties and municipalities
thereof shall, upon request, furnish to the Commission within a reasonable
time such available information and data as it may require for its work.

1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 32, sec. 17.

17. The Commission is hereby specifically authorized and empowered,
in addition to the general powers herein conferred, (a) to apply for, re-
ceive and expend without limit as to amount and under such regulations
and conditions as it may deem advisable or as may be prescribed by the
United States of America or other governing authority, any monies,
loaned, granted or otherwise made available by the Federal Emergency
Administration of Public Works of the United States, created by the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion, a body corporate of the District of Columbia, or by any other cor-
poration or agency of the United States of America for the purpose of mak-
ing plans for, acquiring by purchase or otherwise, constructing and oper-
ating public works as herein mentioned; (b) to make plans for, to acquire
by purchase or otherwise, construct, operate, lease, mortgage and sell under
such conditions as it may prescribe, public works as herein mentioned;
(c) to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any property so constructed or
acquired, and any security acquired in connection therewith, or to lease,
mortgage or otherwise encumber such property with or without the priv-
ilege of purchase; (d) to provide for the repayment of any monies so re-
ceived by the execution of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
secured by any public work or other property owned by it, and the revenue
anticipated therefrom, provided, however, that the Commission shall have
no power to pledge the credit of the State of Maryland or of any political
subdivision thereof or to impress upon any evidence of indebtedness issued
by it the power to tax any of the citizens of the State of Maryland for the
repayment thereof; (e) to authorize the formation of corporations under
the general laws of the State of Maryland and to subscribe and pay for