PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1057

convene regularly, once each month, or oftener, not exceding
four times a month, however, should there be business of suffi-
cient importance or volume to warrant and at such points as
may be best suited to the business under consideration. The
compensation to be paid the members of said Commission for
the duties placed upon them by this Act shall not exceed the
amount of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) each in any
one year. It shall be individually a sum bearing the same ratio
to the above maximum as the number of meetings attended by
the members bears to the total number of meetings held within
any year. The Clerk of the said Board shall act as Secretary
of the said Commission. He shall keep in a suitable book a
permanent record of the proceedings of the Commission and
the title of said volume shall be "Proceedings of the Board of
County Commissioners," with the sub-title "Sewerage and
Drainage.'' The Commission shall also cause to be kept by the
Treasurer of the County, an accurate itemized account of all
moneys received, and expenditures made in fulfilling the pur-
poses and intents of this Act. The title of said volume shall be
"Fiscal Report of the Board of County Commissioners" with
the sub-title '' Sewerage and Drainage.'' The above volume and
all other records of the Commission are hereby made a part of
the official records of Montgomery County and are to be accessi-
ble to the taxpayers of the said County on request. The Public
Health Officer of said County shall act as Sanitary Inspector for
said Commission. He shall render to it, and to the State Board
of Health, at such times and in such manner, and in such form
as each may prescribe, reports on the conditions affecting the
public health in said County. The compensation allowed the
Public Health Officer for the performance of such additional
duties as this Act necessitates shall not exceed the sum of six
hundred dollars ($600) per annum.

468-A. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Montgomery County shall be charged with the duty of project-
Maryland, That the Sewerage and Drainage Commission of
ing, constructing and establishing or maintaining, by contract
or otherwise, alone or in co-operation with second parties, within
or without said County, sewerage and drainage systems, when-
ever, in their opinion the public health, welfare or convenience,
of said County so requires.

The said Commission shall have full power and authority
and the same is hereby expressly delegated to them, to pro-
vide, pass and adopt reasonable rules, orders, regulations for