ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1307

ed to office under, in the service or in connection with the said
commission, is hereby forbidden and prohibited to solicit, sug-
gest, request or recommend, directly or indirectly, to any com-
mon carrier, railroad corporation, street railroad corporation,
gas company, electric light company, telephone company, tele-
graph company, water company and refrigerating company,
or any other company or corporation subject to this sub-title,
or to any of the provisions thereof, or to any officer, attorney,
agent or employee thereof, the appointment of any person to
any office, place, position or appointment. And every common
carrier, railroad corporation, street railroad corporation, gas
corporation, electrical corporation, telephone company, tele-
graph company, water company and all other companies or
corporations subject to this sub-title, or any of the provisions
thereof, and every officer, attorney, agent and employee thereof
is hereby forbidden and prohibited to offer to any commissioner,
People's Counsel, to the secretary thereof, or to any person em-
ployed by the commission, any office, place, appointment or
position, or to offer to give to any commissioner, to the People's
Counsel, to the secretary thereof or to any officer employed or
appointed to office, or to any person employed in the service of
the commission or in connection with the work of said commis-
sion, any free pass or transportation or any reduction in fares,
to which the public generally are not entitled or any free carri-
age for freight or property, or any present, gift or gratuity of
any kind. If any commissioner, People's Counsel, the secretary
thereof, or any person employed or appointed to office or in the
service of the commission shall violate any provision of this sub-
title, the Governor shall remove him from the office held by him.
No commissioner and no employee or official engaged in the
service of or in any manner connected with the said commission
shall hold any office or position, or be engaged in any business
or avocation, the duties of which are incompatible with the dut-
ies of his office or employment as commissioner, or in the service
of or in connection with the work of the said commission.

Approved April 9. 1924.

CHAPTER 535.

AN ACT to repeal Section 230D of Article 18 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Queen Anne's
County'', sub-title "Roads", as said section was enacted by
Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1910, and to repeal and re-enact
with amendments Sections 230C, 230E, 230F, 230H and