400 LA'WS OF MARYLAND.

constituted, to be known as "The Maryland State Normal
School Building Commission," said Commission to consist of
the Governor of the State, the Comptroller of the Treasury,
the State Treasurer, the State Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation, the Principal of the Maryland State Normal School,
Honorable J. Charles Linthicum, Honorable John S. Biddison,
Honorable W. Mitchell Digges and Honorable Carville D.
Benson. The members of said Commission shall continue in
office until the work for which it is established, as hereinafter
set forth, shall have been completed; provided, however, that
the Governor shall have the power, in his discretion, to remove
any member thereof, or to fill any vacancy caused by death,
resignation or otherwise. This Commission shall meet within
sixty days after the passage of this Act and organize by the
election of a Secretary, who may be one of its members. It
shall be the duty of said Secretary to keep an accurate record
of all acts, orders or transactions of the Commission and per-
form such other duties as may be prescribed by the Commis-
sion,, and shall receive such salary as said Commission may
think proper, not in excess of five hundred dollars per annum.
The members of said Commission, except the Secretary, shall
serve without compensation, and the sum of one thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated out of the ordinary receipts of the Treasury for
each of the years of 1910 and 1911 to defray the necessary
expenses of said Commission or its members in attending to
their duties as such; and the Comptroller is hereby authorized
to draw his warrant, on the receipt of the draft of the Chair-
man of said Commission, upon the Treasurer of the State in
favor of the Secretary of said Commission for such sum or
sums as may be necessary not in excess of one thousand dollars
for each of the years 1910 and 1911 as aforesaid. It shall be
the further duty of the Secretary to keep an accurate account
of all moneys received and expended and make a report of same
annually, or at such other time as the Commission may direct.
He shall also give bond for the safe keeping of all moneys or
records belonging to the Commission in such sum as said Com-
mission may require. The office or meeting place of said Com-
mission may be that of the State Board of Education at
Annapolis, at the Normal School building in Baltimore or
elsewhere.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
Commission created by this Act to select and obtain an option
for the State of Maryland upon a suitable site and to have
prepared tentative plans and estimates for the necessary build-
ings for the new State Normal School buildings, which shall
5nclude dormitories for the students of the Maryland State