HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1099

being Sections 1015, 1016, 1018, 1019 and 1026 of Article 17 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition),
title "Montgomery County", sub-title "Washington Suburban
Sanitary District", and title "Prince George's County", sub-
title "Washington Suburban Sanitary District", be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:

991. (1015) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions
of this sub-title, said Sanitary District shall be under the juris-
diction of a Commission of three members, one to be appointed
by the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, one by
the County Commissioners of Prince George's County, both
upon the recommendation of the State Board of Health of
Maryland, and the third to be named by the Governor of Mary-
land, the first appointments hereunder to be made on or before
May 1, 1918, upon which date the terms of office shall begin.
All appointees shall be residents and taxpayers of said Sani-
tary District and shall serve for six years, or until their suc-
cessors are appointed and have qualified, and the term of office
of each of the three Commissioners of said Sanitary District
now in office and whose term of office expires on the first day
of May, 1937, is hereby extended to the first day of May, 1939,
and until their successors are appointed and have qualified.
Upon the expiration of the terms of the members of said Com-
mission, their successors shall be named in the same manner
as the original appointments were made. Any vacancy occur-
ring at any time in the personnel of the Commission shall be
filled by the agency making the original appointment and for
the unexpired term. The annual salary of the Chairman of said
Commission shall be three thousand dollars, and of one of
said Commissioners, not from the same County as the Chair-
man, forty-eight hundred dollars, and for the third Commis-
sioner two thousand dollars, all payable monthly. The Chair-
man and the Commissioner to receive forty-eight hundred dol-
lars shall be designated by the Governor and the Commissioner
so designated to receive forty-eight hundred dollars shall give
all of his time and attention to the duties of his office, shall
supervise and superintend the outside operations of said Com-
mission, and shall perform such other duties as the Commis-
sion shall from time to time designate. The Commission shall
appoint, discharge at pleasure, and fix the compensation of a
Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chief Engineer and such engineer-
ing, legal, clerical and other force and help as, from time to
time, in its judgment may be deemed necessary to carry out the
provisions of this Act. Said Commission, for the convenience
of the citizens of said district may establish an office at a con-
venient place in the District of Columbia and all acts, regula-