MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. 343

Commissioner shall be eligible for reappointment, in the dis-
cretion of the Governor.

In the event that the term of office above ascertained and
prescribed for each of said Commissioners, or the term of office
hereinafter prescribed for the General Counsel, shall in respect
to any of said Commissioners or the General Counsel be held
and decided by the courts, and particularly by the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, to be in excess of the period or term of
office allowed or permitted by the Constitution of Maryland,
then, in such event, the term of office of each of said Commis-
sioners, or said General Counsel, shall, and this Act hereby
declares and determines that the term of office of each of them
shall be for the period of two years from and after the first
Monday of May, in the year nineteen hundred and ten (unless
removed from office) and until their successors, respectively,
qualify according to law.

The Governor may remove any Commissioner for ineffi-
ciency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office, giving to him a
copy of the charges against him and an opportunity of being
publicly heard in person or by counsel, in his own defense,
upon not less than ten days' notice. If such Commissioner
shall be removed, the Governor shall file in the office of the
Secretary of State a complete statement of all charges made
against such Commissioner, and his findings thereon, together
with a complete record of the proceedings.

The salary of each of said Commissioners shall be three
thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, payable out of the State
Treasury .by the State of Maryland; and in addition to said
sum of three thousand dollars per annum, the Chairman of
said Commission shall also receive the sum of three thousand
dollars ($3,000) per annum, which shall be paid out of its
funds by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to said
Chairman of said Commission as an employee of said munici-
pal corporation; and each of the other two Commissioners
shall receive, in addition to said three thousand dollars per
annum aforesaid, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per
annum, which shall be paid out of its funds by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore to each of said other two Commis-
sioners, as employees of said municipal corporation.

The Governor shall, upon the recommendation of the Com-
mission, appoint an attorney-at-law of the State of Maryland
to be and act as the General Counsel to said Public Service
Commission. The term of office of said General Counsel shall
be six years from the beginning of his term of office. His term
of office shall begin on the first Monday in May, 1910, and his
appointment shall be made and announced by the Governor