892 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 409

thereto and revisions thereof, and any further Act or
Acts of the Congress of the United States of America to
encourage public works, to reduce unemployment and
thereby to assist in the National Recovery and to pro-
mote the public welfare, or to regulate the flow of navi-
gable or other streams, to conserve water resources and
to provide for the penalties for violation of the provi-
sions of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the territory included within Allegany
County and Election District No. 4 of Garrett County, of
the State of Maryland, shall be, and is hereby made and
constituted the Upper Potomac River District for the pur-
poses hereinafter set forth, and shall be known and cited
as the "Upper Potomac River District. " The word "Dis-
trict" as hereinafter used is defined to mean the Upper
Potomac River District.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the Upper
Potomac River Commission is hereby created and author-
ized to exercise, for the purposes herein set forth, all pow-
ers herein delegated to it. The word "Commission" as
used herein is defined to mean the Upper Potomac River
Commission. The District, for the purposes herein set
forth, and for no other purposes, shall be under the juris-
diction of the Commission.

The Commission shall be composed of three members;
one shall be appointed by the County Commissioners of
Garrett County and one by the County Commissioners of
Allegany County, and the third shall be named by the
Governor of Maryland, the first appointments hereunder
to be made on or before May 1, 1935, upon which date
the terms of office shall begin. All appointees shall be
residents and tax payers of said District, and shall serve
for six years, or until their successors are appointed and
have qualified, except that the first members appointed by
the County Commissioners of Garrett County and Alle-
gany County shall serve for terms of two and four years,
respectively, and their successors for six years, so that the
term of one member of the Commission shall expire bien-
ially. Upon the expiration of the terms of the members
of said Commission, their successors shall be named in
the same manner as the original appointments were made,
except that each appointment shall be for a term of six
years. Any vacancy occurring at any time in the person-
nel of the Commission shall be filled for the unexpired