1730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 991

and shall appoint, discharge at pleasure and fix the compen-
sation of a secretary-treasurer, a chief engineer and such engi-
neering, legal, clerical and other personnel and help, as from
time to time the Commission may deem necessary to carry out
the provisions of this Act. The annual salary of each of said
Commissioners shall be as follows: The chairman shall re-
ceive an annual salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200. 00),
payable semi-annually; the other members shall receive an
annual salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100. 00), payable
semi-annually. The secretary-treasurer appointed by the Com-
mission shall be the collector of all charges and assessments
made by the Commission, and shall receive and account for all
monies which shall be due and payable to said Commission
from any source whatsoever. All monies deposited shall be
protected by a depository bond, or by such other securities as
may be approved by the said Commission. The secretary-
treasurer shall give bond to the State of Maryland in the
amount specified by said Commissioners with good and suffi-
cient surety to be approved by said Commissioners, with the
condition that if the above bounden secretary-treasurer shall
well and faithfully execute his office and shall account to the
said Commission for all the monies which he shall receive for
account of the Commission, or be answerable for by law, then
the said obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full
force and effect. The said bond, when approved, shall be re-
corded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit for Howard
County; and the person so appointed, before entering upon
the duties of his office, shall take an oath before the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for said County, in form similar to that
taken by collectors of taxes, except as to the title of the office.
The Commission is hereby empowered to pay the premiums on
all bonds. All checks issued by said Commission shall be
countersigned by the chairman. The said Commission shall
annually have its accounts audited by a certified public ac-
countant, to be selected by said Commission, and paid by said
Commission, and publish a full, true and itemized account,
under oath, of its receipts and disbursements in a newspaper
published in said County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of said
Commission shall be a body corporate, by the name of the
"Howard County Metropolitan Commission" (referred to else-
where in this Act as "the Commission") with the right to use a
common seal, to sue and be sued, and to do any and all other
corporate acts for the purpose of carrying out the provisions
of this Act. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by said
Commission to take or acquire any land, structures or build-
ings, or any stream bed, waterway, water rights or water shed,
either in fee or as an easement, within or outside of Howard