66 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 20

engineer, assistant engineer, professional or technical experts,
surveyors, agents, assistants, clerks, employees and laborers,
skilled and unskilled, and also such advisers and consultants as
it may deem requisite for the performance and execution of the
powers and duties imposed and conferred by law, and shall fix
their respective compensations. Said Commissioners shall have
power to exact from any person employed by it such indemnity
bond for the faithful performance of duty as the Commission
may deem proper, and said Commissioners may remove any of
said persons from their positions, but only in the manner here-
inafter provided. And said Commission may also rent or lease
all proper and necessary offices and other places which it may
deem proper and necessary for the performance of its duties
and the purposes of law. The said Commission shall keep a
journal in which shall be entered all its proceedings in detail,
the correctness of the same to be attested at each succeeding
meeting by the President and Secretary of the Commission.
Said Commission shall also keep books showing in detail all
expenditures of money in every County of the State in connec-
tion with the establishment, improvement or maintenance of
roads, and in connection with all work whatsoever of the
Commission which books and records shall be open to the
inspection of any taxpayer of the State, at any time. No
member of said Commission shall become pecuniarily interested
in any contract for work done or materials provided in connec-
tion with any of the work of said Commission. The Commis-
sion shall at the time of its organization, as aforesaid, and there-
after from time to time, adopt such by-laws and rules of pro-
cedure for the conduct of its business as it may deem necessary.
It shall annually compile and publish maps and statistics relat-
ing to the public roads of the State and showing the progress
and status of the work done or entered upon by it and separately
for the several counties. All maps, plans and statistics made,
collected and compiled under its direction shall be preserved in
its office and shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer of
the State. All bills or claims on account of any of the work
of the said Commission or in any way relating to its duties or
transactions shall be passed upon by the Commission at a meet-
ing of its members, and no claim involving the expenditure of
more than fifty dollars, and no contract involving a larger ex-
penditure than fifty dollars, shall be allowed or made except by
a majority vote of all members of the Commission at a meeting;
thereof; all contracts, agreements, grants, licenses, made or
entered into by the Commission shall be recorded in books kept