1810 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 783

created by Chapter 122 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1918, be and is hereby authorized and em-
powered to create or establish a Merit System or classified
service to include all of its employees except the Chief Engi-
neer, Secretary and/or Treasurer, and to make such rules and
regulations as are necessary and proper to carry out the pro-
visions of this Act. Said Commission may abolish, add to,
change or amend such rules and regulations; provided, how-
ever, that all such rules and regulations and changes thereof
shall be approved by the Commissioner of State Employment
and Registration of Maryland, who is hereinafter called the
State Employment Commissioner.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commis-
sion shall establish a list of the positions and their correspond-
ing salaries to be included under the Merit System or classified
service and shall file this list, within six months after the
passage of this Act, with the State Employment Commissioner.
The said Commission shall from time to time thereafter, as it
may be necessary, establish additional position classifications,
and may combine, alter or abolish existing classifications and
salaries. Each additional position classification established
or abolished shall be submitted to the State Employment Com-
missioner for his approval, giving the reasons therefor. It
shall be the duty of the State Employment Commissioner to
give his approval or disapproval, with the reasons therefor to
the said Commission, of said additional position classifica-
tions under the Merit System established by said Commission,
or any abolishments thereof, within sixty days after the re-
ceipt thereof by him. In the event such approval or dis-
approval is not forthcoming within said period of sixty days,
the additional position classifications or abolishments thereof,
as proposed by the said Commission shall become official and
be deemed the classified list of positions under the Merit
System as if the approval of the State Employment Com-
missioner had been given.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That promptly upon the
filing of the list of positions and salaries under the Merit
System with the State Employment Commissioner, the said
Commission shall prepare and hold examinations to establish
a list of persons eligible for appointment to vacancies in the
various positions. Examinations may be held by the said
Commission whenever it deems it necessary to establish an
additional list of eligible persons for any position in the classi-
fied list. The examinations may be oral or written, or in the
form of a demonstration of skill, or any combination of these,
and shall be of a character to fairly test and determine the