832 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 638

engineering and general community problems involved in the
improvement of the market area and any and all plans and
proposals for such improvement. The Mayor may make avail-
able to such Committee such technical or skilled assistants in
the employ of the City and such information and data in the
possession of the City as to him may seem appropriate and he
shall instruct said Committee to present him within such
time as he shall specify a complete plan for the improvement
or reconstruction of the Lexington Market (including a finan-
cial program) or a report stating the reasons why, in the
opinion of said Committee, no such plan is feasible.

(b) Upon the receipt of such plan, the Mayor may, if he
approves the same, submit said plan to all departments of the
City Government charged with the duty of passing upon plans
for the construction, alteration or improvement of structures
on city property, and he may make such alterations in and
amendments to said plan as may seem to him to be appropriate.
Thereupon, the Mayor shall submit said plan to the City
Council with his recommendations and if the City Council
shall thereafter adopt an ordinance ratifying and approving
said plan and making provision for such legislative changes as
may be necessary to effectuate said plan, then and in that event
the public corporation hereby created shall have and exercise
the powers hereby granted.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said public corpora-
tion, hereinafter referred to as the Authority, shall be managed
by a board of five commissioners, the first members of which
shall be selected by the Mayor from among the members of the
Committee hereinabove provided for, for terms of two, three,
four, five and six years, respectively, or until their successors
are selected. Upon the expiration of each of such terms, a
commissioner shall be appointed by the Mayor to serve for a
term of five years, and thereafter each of said terms shall be
for five-year periods, and any such commissioner may be ap-
pointed for two or more successive terms. The compensation
of such commissioners, if any,. shall be such as shall be fixed
by the contract or agreement between the City and said
Authority hereinafter provided for. Said Authority shall have
and use a common seal and may sue and be sued in its name
as a public body corporate of this State. All proceedings of
said Authority shall be governed by by-laws which shall be
adopted by said commissioners in accordance with the terms
of the contract with the City hereinafter provided for. Ex-
cept as herein limited, said Authority shall have and is hereby
granted any and all of the powers granted to ordinary busi-
ness corporations of this State and set forth in Article 23 of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition),