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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-
ments, grants, licenses, made or entered into by the Commission shall be
recorded in books kept for that purpose, which shall always be open to
the inspection of the public. It shall be the duty of the members of the
Commission to travel over and personally inspect the public highways in
the several parts of the State and the work being done on the same, in
order that they may have, as far as possible, personal knowledge of the re-
quirements of the several sections of the State in reference to the matter
of roads as well as of the progress from time to time of the work of said
Commission.
Cited but not construed in Sieling v. State Roads Commn., 160 Md. 409.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 2.

3. Whenever the State Roads Commission shall determine that any
land or bridge, acquired by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, in con-
nection with the State's system of roads and highways, is not necessary
or desirable in the maintenance of said system of roads and highways, or
whenever, by reason or¹ the relocation of any road or bridge by the State
Roads Commission, any land or bridge ceases to be used in the Stated
system of roads and highways, the State Roads Commission, with the
consent and approval of the Board of Public Works, shall be vested with
full power and authority to dispose of such land or bridge. Deeds for the
transfer of any property disposed of under this section shall be executed

¹ Word "of" apparently intended.