62 CONSTITUTION OF THE [ART. 7.

ARTICLE VII.

SUNDRY OFFICERS.

Board of Public
Works.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the

Treasury and the Treasurer shall constitute the Board of

Public Works in this State; they shall keep a journal of

Their Sessions

their proceedings, and shall hold regular sessiona in the

city of Annapolis on the first Wednesday in January,

April, July and October in each year, and oftener if

necessary, at which sessions they shall hear and determine

such matters as affect the Public Works of the State, and

as the General Assembly may confer upon them the power

to decide.

Their Duties.

SEC. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful super-

vision of all Public Works in which the State may be

interested as stockholder or creditor, and shall appoint the

Directors in every Rail Road or Canal Company in which

the State has the legal power to appoint Directors, which

said Directors shall represent the State in all meetings of

the stockholders of every Rail Road or Canal Company in

which the State is a stockholder; they shall require the

Directors of all said Public Works from time to time, and

Rates of Toll.

as often as there shall be any change in the rates of toll on

any of said works, to furnish said Board of Public Works

a schedule of such modified rates of toll, and shall use all

legal powers which they may possess to obtain the estab-

lishment of rates of toll which may prevent an injurious

competition with each other to the detriment of the in-

terests of the State, and so to adjust them as to promote

Reports to the
Legislature.

the agricultural interests of the State; they shall report to

the General Assembly at each regular session, and recom-

mend such legislation as they shall deem necessary and

requisite to promote or protect the interests of the State

in the said Public Works; they shall perform such other

duties as may be hereafter prescribed by law; and a

majority of them shall be competent to act.