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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 401

any time resign therefrom by tendering his resignation in
writing to the Mayor, and any vacancy in said commission
occasioned by the resignation, removal, death or permanent
absence from this State of the incumbent, or by supervening
incapacity upon his part, whether physical or mental, to dis-
charge his duties, or by any other cause operating such a
vacancy, either actually or in effect, shall be filled by the
Mayor in the manner and subject to all the conditions as to
minority representation, qualification and removal hereinbe-
fore provided for as to original appointees to said commission.
All the members of said commission except the chairman

Serve without
compensa-
tion.

thereof, as hereinafter provided, shall serve without com-
pensation, and a majority of said members shall be a lawful
quorum for the transaction of business. So soon as the
appointive members of said commission shall have qualified
they shall, with the Mayor acting as a member of said com-
mission ex-officio, organize by the election of one of the mem-
bers of said commission as chairman of said commission,
who shall be removable at pleasure by said commission ;
shall receive such compensation as it may determine, not
exceeding the sum of $2,500 per annum, and shall preside
over the meetings of said commission and perform such other
duties as are imposed upon him by this Act, or as may be
assigned to him by said commission, and by the election of
a secretary, not a member of said commission, who shall be
removable at pleasure by said commission; shall receive such
compensation as it may determine not exceeding the sum of
$1,500 per annum, and shall enter in a well-bound book and
carefully preserve neat, legible and accurate minutes of all
meetings of said commission, and perform such other duties
as usually appertain to the office of secretary of a private
corporation, or as are imposed upon him by this Act, or as
may be assigned to him by said commission. All sessions
or meetings of said commission shall be open and public,
and all its records shall be public records, and it shall annu-
ally make to the Mayor a detailed report of all its official
transactions and expenditures.
SEC. 2. And, be it further enacted, That the said commission

Grade, shell,
gravel, etc.,
avenues,
streets,
lanes, alleys,
etc.

be and it is hereby empowered to grade, shell, gravel, macad-
amize, pave or otherwise surface and kerb, re-grade, re-shell,
re-gravel, re-macadamize, re-pave or otherwise re-surface
and re-kerb, according to such general and comprehensive