344 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

not less than ten days before said last-mentioned date. The
Governor may remove said General Counsel for inefficiency,
neglect of duty or misconduct in office, giving him a copy of
the charges against him and an opportunity of being publicly
heard in his own defense, upon not less than ten days' notice.
He shall be eligible for reappointment by the Governor. He
shall be allowed and have the right to appoint an assistant,
who shall be a member of the Bar of the State of Maryland, to
aid him in the performance of his duties, and said General
Counsel may remove such assistant at pleasure.

The Governor may, if at any time he deems it necessary,
authorize and empower the General Counsel to employ other
attorneys-at-law as additional assistants to said General Coun-
sel for the performance of such extraordinary legal services
for or in behalf of the Public Service Commission at such spe-
cial compensation for such additional assistants as the Gen-
eral Counsel, with the written approval of the Governor, may
ascertain and prescribe. Said General Counsel may also em-
ploy a stenographer and assistant stenographers in connection
with the work of his office. The annual salary of such General
Counsel shall be three thousand dollars ($3,000), and the
annual salary of the assistant employed by him shall be three
thousand dollars; and the annual salary of the chief stenogra-
pher employed by him shall be one thousand five hundred dol-
lars ; the salary of each of the other stenographers employed
by the General Counsel shall be ascertained in the manner
herein prescribed for the ascertainment of the compensation
or salary of the general employees of the Commission.

The General Counsel shall also receive, as additional com-
pensation, the sum of $1,800 per annum, which shall be paid
out of its funds by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
said General Counsel, as an employee of said municipal cor-
poration.

It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, and it is hereby directed and required to pay out of its
funds the salaries and compensations provided and prescribed
by this Act to be paid by it, and it shall pay said salaries and
compensations to the said several Commissioners and General
Counsel of said Commission in monthly installments, payable
at the same time and in the same manner in all respects as the
salary and compensation of the Mayor of said municipal corpo-
ration is paid to him by it.

The said Commission shall have a Secretary, to be appointed
by it and to hold office at its pleasure. It shall be the, duty of
the Secretary to keep a full and true record of all the proceed-
ings of the Commission, of all books, maps, documents and