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ARTICLE XII.

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 proceedings,
and shall hold regular sessions 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.

Sec. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful supervision
of all Public Works in which the State may be interested as
Stockholder or Creditor, and shall represent and vote the stock
of the State of Maryland in all meetings of the stockholders
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and shall appoint the
Directors in every Railroad and 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 Stock-
holders of the respective Companies for which they are
appointed or elected. And the President and Directors of the
said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company shall so regulate
the tolls of said Company from time to time as to produce the
largest amount of revenue, and to avoid the injurious effect to
said Company of rival competition by other Internal Improve-
ment Companies. They shall require the Directors of all said
Public Works to guard the public interest and prevent the
establishment of tolls which shall discriminate against the
interest of the citizens or products of this State, and from time
to time, and as often as there shall be any change in the rates
of toll on any of the said Works, to furnish the said Board of
Public Works a schedule of such modified rates of toll, and so
adjust them as to promote the agricultural interests of the
State; they shall report to the General Assembly at each
regular session, and recommend such legislation as they may
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. The Governor,
Comptroller and Treasurer shall receive no additional salary
for services rendered by them as. members of the Board of