168 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 99

appointed. As the term of each of the Commissioners now
serving expires, he or his successor shall be appointed by
the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County. The Commission shall elect one of its members
as chairman, and shall appoint, discharge at pleasure and
fix the compensation of a secretary-treasurer; a chief engi-
neer, and such engineering, legal, clerical and other per-
sonnel and help, as from time to time the Commission may
deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
The annual salary of each of said Commissioners shall be
as follows: The Chairman shall receive a salary of twelve
hundred ($1, 200. 00) dollars per year, payable monthly;
each associate member of the Commission shall receive a
salary of six hundred ($600. 00) dollars per year payable
monthly. The secretary-treasurer appointed by the Com-
mission shall be the collector of all charges and assess-
ments made by the Commission, and shall receive and ac-
count for all monies which shall be due and payable to said
Commission from any source whatsoever, all monies de-
posited may be bonded by a depository bond, or pro-
tected by such other securities as may be approved by the
said Commission. The Commission is hereby empowered
to pay the premiums on all bonds. The secretary-treasurer
shall give bond to the State of Maryland to the amount of
twenty-five thousand ($25, 000. 00) dollars, with a good and
sufficient surety to be approved by the said chairman, with
the condition "that if the above bounden.... shall well
and faithfully execute his office and shall account to the
said Commission for all and several the monies which he
shall receive for account of the Commission, or be answer-
able for by law, then the said obligation to be void, other-
wise to be and remain in full force and effect. " The said
bond when approved shall be recorded in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County; and
the person so appointed before entering upon the duties
of his office, shall take an oath before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for said county, in form similar to that taken
by collectors of taxes, except as to title of office. All checks
issued by said Commission shall be countersigned by the
chairman. The said Commission shall (Semi-) annually
have its accounts audited by a certified public accountant,
to be selected by said chairman, and paid by said Commis-
sion, and publish a full, true and itemized account under
oath of its receipts and disbursements in a newspaper pub-
lished in said county.