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representatives, shall be subject also to the rights and benefits of
Article 7SB of said Code, title "Pensions"; provided, however, that
the power to set the salaries and compensation of all such employees
shall be vested solely in the Authority and shall in no way be subject
to the control or jurisdiction of the Standard Salary Board or of any
other officer or agency;

(p) to do all things necessary and proper to promote and increase
commerce within its territorial jurisdiction, including the purchase
of advertising, engaging upon public relation programs, publication
of literature, solicitation of business by correspondence and traveling
representatives, and participation in and cooperation with civic,
technical, professional and business organizations and associations;

(q) subject to the provisions of Section 21 of this Article and to the
authority of the Federal government, to provide for the preservation
of navigation within its territorial jurisdiction, including the estab-
lishment of lines beyond which no piers, bulkheads, wharves, pilings,
structures, obstructions or extensions of any character may be built,
erected, constructed, made or extended; to provide for and regulate
the stationing, anchoring and moving of vessels or other water craft,
and to adopt reasonable rules and regulations in order to prevent any
material, refuse or matter of any kind from being thrown into,
deposited in or placed where the same may fall, or be washed, into
any navigable waters; to make surveys or charts of navigable waters
under its jurisdiction, and to ascertain the depth and course of the
channels of the same; to erect and maintain and to authorize the
erection and maintenance of, and to make such reasonable regulations
as it may deem proper, respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers and
piling, and the keeping of the same in repair, so as to prevent injury
to navigation or health; to regulate the use of wharves, docks, piers,
bulkheads, or pilings, owned or controlled by it, and to lease or rent
the same, and to impose and collect dockage from vessels and ivater
craft lying at or using the same, and to collect wharfage and other
charges upon goods, wares, merchandise or other articles landed at,
shipped from, stored on or passed over the same; provided, however,
that, except with respect to docks or wharves owned, controlled or
operated by the Authority, nothing contained in this Article shall
be construed to impose any duty upon the Authority to any person
using said waters in regard to the safety thereof, or to render the
Authority liable for any loss of life, or injury or damage to person
or property, by reason of any obstruction in, or unsafe condition of,
any part of said waters, nor shall anything contained in this Article
be so construed as to render the Authority liable in damage or other-
wise for any omission to pass or enforce any regulation or resolution
pursuant to the provisions hereof; providing that the powers in this
sub-section contained shall not be exercised in any county wherein
the Board of County Commissioners or the County Council, as the
case may be, has not approved the operations therein of the Authority.

(r) to establish and maintain a traffic bureau or other office to
investigate and seek improvement in rates, rate structures, practices
and charges affecting the ports in Maryland so as to increase the
commerce of such ports;

(s) to make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary
or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its
powers under this Article; provided, however, that all projects in-