HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 773

skilled, and also such advisers and consultants as it may deem
requisite for the performance and execution of the powers and
duties imposed and conferred by law, and shall fix their respec-
tive compensations. Said Commissioners shall have power to
exact from any person employed by it such indemnity bond for
the faithful performance of duty as the Commission may deem
proper, and said Commissioners may remove any of said per-
sons from their positions, but only in the manner hereinafter
provided. And said Commission may also rent or lease all
proper and necessary offices and other places which it may
deem proper and necessary for the performance of its duties
and the purposes of law. The said Commission shall keep a
journal in which shall be entered all its proceedings in detail,
the correctness of the same to be attested at each succeeding
meeting by the Chairman and Secretary of the Commission.
Said Commission shall also keep books showing in detail all
expenditures of money in the State in connection with the
establishment or improvement of roads, and in connection
with all work whatsoever of the Commission, which books
and records shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer
of the State, at any time. No member of said Commission
shall become pecuniarily interested in any contract for work
done or material provided in connection with any of the work
of said Commission. The Commission may, from time to
time, adopt such by-laws and rules of procedure for the
conduct of its business as it may deem necessary. It shall
annually compile and publish maps and statistics relating to
the public roads of the State and showing the progress and
status of the work done or entered upon by it and separately
for the several counties. All maps, plans and statistics made,
collected and compiled under its direction shall be preserved
in its office and shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer
of the State. All contracts, agreements, grants, licenses, made or
entered into by the Commission shall be recorded in books kept
for that purpose, which shall always be open to the inspection
of the public. It shall be the duty of the members of the
Commission to travel over and personally inspect the public
highways in the several parts of the State and the work being
done on the same, in order that they may have, as far as pos-
sible, personal knowledge of the requirements of the several
sections of the State in reference to the matter of roads as
well as of the progress from time to time of the work of said
Commission.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 23, 1945.