62 Constitution of the [Art. 7.

ARTICLE VII.

SUNDRY OFFICERS.

Board ot Public
Works.

Section 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the
Treasury and the Treasurer shall constitute the Board of
Public Works in this State; they shall keep a journal of

Their Sessions.

their proceedings, and shall hold regular sessions in the
city of Annapolis on the first Wednesday in January,
April, July and October in each year, and oftener if
necessary, at which sessions they shall hear and determine
such matters as affect the Public Works of the State, and
as the General Assembly may confer upon them the power
to decide.

Their Duties.

Sec. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful super-
vision of all Public Works in which the State may be
interested as stockholder or creditor, and shall appoint the
Directors in every Kail Road or Canal Company in which
the State has the legal power to appoint Directors, which
said Directors shall represent the State in all meetings of
the stockholders of every Rail Road or Canal Company in
which the State is a stockholder; they shall require the
Directors of all said Public Works from time to time, and

Rates of Toll.

as often as there shall be any change in the rates of toll on
any of said works, to furnish said Board of Public Works
a schedule of such modified rates of toll, and shall use all
legal powers which they may possess to obtain the estab-
lishment of rates of toll which may prevent an injurious
competition with each other to the detriment of the in-
terests of the State, and so to adjust them as to promote

Reports to the
Legislature.

the agricultural interests of the State; they shall report to
the General Assembly at each regular session, and recom-
mend such legislation as they shall deem necessary and
requisite to promote or protect the interests of the State
in the said Public Works; they shall perform such other
duties as may be hereafter prescribed by law; and a
majority of them shall be competent to act.