1302 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 534

Article 23 of the same title and sub-title, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so that said
Sections 414, 417, 418 and 419 shall read as follows:

414. There shall be a Public Service Commission, and the
same is hereby created and established, which said Public Serv-
ice Commission shall be vested with and possessed of the powers
and duties in this sub-title specified, and also all powers neces-
sary or proper to enable it to carry out fully and effectually all
the purposes of this sub-title.

The said Public Service Commission shall consist of three
members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, and
one of whom shall be designated by the Governor to be and,
upon being so designated, shall be the chairman of said com-
mission.

Each commissioner, at the time of his appointment and quali-
fication, shall be a resident of the State of Maryland, and shall
have resided in said State for a period of at least five years next
preceding his appointment and qualification, and he shall also
be a qualified voter therein and not less than twenty-five years
of age.

One of said commissioners shall hold office for two years from
the beginning of his term of office until his successor shall quali-
fy; one of said commissioners shall hold office for four years
from the beginning of his term of office and until his successor
shall qualify; and one of said commissioners shall hold office for
six years from the beginning of his term of office and until his
successor shall qualify. The term of office of each commissioner
shall begin on the first Monday of May, in the year nineteen
hundred and ten (1910), and the appointment of each of said
commissioners shall be made and announced by the Governor
not less than ten days before said first Monday of May, nineteen
hundred and ten. The Governor, at the time of making and
announcing the appointment of said three commissioners, as
well as in the commission issued by him to each of them, shall
designate which of said commissioners shall serve for the term of
two years, and which shall serve for the term of four years, and
which shall serve for the term of six years, as aforesaid, and also
which shall be the chairman of said commission.

Upon the expiration of each of said terms, the term of office of
each commissioner thereafter appointed shall be six years from
the time of his appointment and qualification and until his suc-
cessor shall qualify. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled