1184 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 679

exceeding twenty (20) per cent; and provided, further, that
all or any part of the funds allocated for street or highway
improvements or construction may be used in addition to and
in conjunction with any available State or Federal funds,
and the said County Commissioners are hereby authorized to
enter into a contract with the State Roads Commission or
any Department or Bureau of the Federal Government with
regard to such improvements and as may be required by the
terms of said contract to pay the funds contracted to be paid
to said Commission or Federal Bureau or Department;

SEC. 3. And it is further enacted, That there is hereby
created a Commission or Board to be known as the Advisory
Board to the County Commissioners and H. J. Patterson,
Oliver Metzerott, Herbert Wells, Edgar A. Merkle and Irwin
I. Main are designated and appointed as said Board to serve
for a period of two (2) years from the effective date of this
Act and until a successor, or successors, are designated or
appointed by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland.
Said Board shall be a self-perpetuating body and the members
thereof shall elect, from time to time, the successor of any
member of said Board who refuses to serve, dies, or resigns,
or is disqualified by reason of his removal from the Metropoli-
tan District of said County, provided, that any such succes-
sor shall be a resident of said Metropolitan District. The
members of said Board, shall serve without pay; shall elect
a chairman and secretary and shall appoint and employ such
clerical help and secure such engineering and professional
assistance as they may need, subject, however, to the ap-
proval of the County Commissioners of said County as to any
expenditures of money therefor; and shall be entitled to copies
of records, maps, plats and designs of any of the public agen-
cies of said County, without payment therefor. Said Board
shall immediately upon the effective date of this Act proceed
to develop a plan, or plans, for the expenditures of the funds
allocated herein, annually, and shall within four (4) months
after the effective date of this Act, submit their plans and
recommendations to the County Commissioners of said County,
who shall within thirty (30) days either approve or disapprove
said recommendations, or any of them, and after disapproval
of any item, the said Board shall forthwith make further rec-
ommendations so that there shall be expended, with the ap-
proval of the said County Commissioners, not less than the
sum allocated for any one calendar year. The County Com-
missioners shall not expend or contract to expend any part
of the proceeds of said bonds except upon the recommenda-
tion of said Board. Said Board shall at least ten (10) days