1186 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 585

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Commissioners for Opening Streets of the City
of Baltimore are hereby constituted a Commission to be known
as the Annex Improvement Commission, and as such in addi-
tion to their ordinary duties are hereby vested and clothed with
all the powers and rights in this Act contained, and are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to carry into effect all the
provisions of this Act. As compensation for their services here-
under the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may, in its
discretion, award the said Commissioners such annual sum as
it may deem proper in addition to the compensation to which
they are respectively entitled for discharging the ordinary
duties of their office, provided that the total compensation re-
ceived by each of said commissioners shall in no event exceed
the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2, 500. 00) per
annum. The clerk of said commissioners shall act as their
secretary in \conneetion with the powers and duties hereby con-
ferred, and for his services in this connection, the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore may, in its discretion, award him
such annual sum as it may deem proper, in addition to the com-
pensation to which he is entitled for discharging the ordinary
duties of his office as clerk; provided that his total compensa-
tion shall in no event exceed the sum of two thousand dollars
($2, 000. 00) per annum. The said secretary shall keep a record
of all proceedings of the Commission, and shall enter in a well-
bound book and carefully preserve, neat, legible and accurate
minutes of all meetings of the Commission, and he shall per-
form all such other duties as usually appertain to the office of
secretary of a private corporation, or as may be imposed upon
him by this Act or as may be assigned to him by the Commis-
sion, shall annually make to the Mayor a detailed report of all
its official transactions and expenditures. The said Commission
shall have authority and power, subject to the approval or rati-
fication of the Board of Estimates, to employ any help or as-
sistance necessary to promote the object and purpose of this
Commission and its work, and to fix the compensation of such
help and to remove or discharge them at their pleasure; also
to purchase necessary office furniture and stationery.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That upon the comple-
tion by the Commission created by Chapter 736 of the Acts of
1910, of all its work pending at the time of the approval by the
people of the loan hereby authorized, the said Commission shall
be taken to have been superseded in every respect by the Com-