EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 401.
AN ACT to create a Paving Commission for the city of Bal-
timore and to define its duties and powers; to authorize
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to issue stock
to an amount not exceeding five million ($5,000,000) dol-
lars for the purpose of defraying the cost of the work of
said Commission; to provide for the submission of an
ordinance to that end to the legal voters of the city of Bal-
timore; and to empower the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to assess the cost of any work of said Commis-
sion, in part, upon the property bounding upon any public
lane, alley, avenue, street or highway in the city of Balti-
more, upon which such work shall be done by said Com-
mission, and to collect and make use of such assessments
for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor of the city of Baltimore be and he is

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hereby authorized to appoint in the manner prescribed by
Section 25 of Article 4, (entitled " City of Baltimore,") of the
public local laws of Maryland, and subject to the condition
that two of the appointees shall be a member of the minority
party within the meaning of Section 30 of said Article, five
capable and upright citizens of the city of Baltimore, who
together with the Mayor himself, ex-officio, shall constitute a
special commission, to be known as the paving commision
of the city of Baltimore; and who shall continue in office
from year to year until the work of said commission
under this Act, as limited by the pecuniary provision
hereinafter made therefor, has been completed. If, how-
ever, the Second Branch of the City Council of the city of
Baltimore shall reject three several and successive nomina-
tions by the Mayor to any position on said commission he
shall be empowered to make an appointment thereto without
its confirmation. All persons appointed to said commission

Paving
commission.

shall qualify and be subject to removal by the Mayor (except
that there 'shall be no removal at any time save for cause
after charges preferred), as prescribed by said Section 25 of
Article 4 (entitled " City of Baltimore ") of the public local
laws of Maryland. Any member of said commission may at

Subject to
removal.