CONSTITUTION. 85

ARTICLE XII.

PUBLIC WORKS.

SECTION 1. The Governor, the Comptroller of the Treas-
ury and the Treasurer shall constitute the Board of Public
Works in this State. They shall keep a journal of 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.

SEC. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and faithful super-
vision of all Public Works in which the State may be inter-
ested as Stockholder or Creditor, and shall represent and
vote the stock of the State of Maryland in all meetings of
the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and
shall appoint the Directors in every Railroad and 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 the respective Compa-
nies for which they are appointed, or elected. And the
President and Directors of the said Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company shall so regulate the tolls of said Company
from time to time as to produce the largest amount of
revenue, and to avoid the injurious effects to said Company
of rival competition by other Internal Improvement Com-
panies. They shall require the Directors of all said Public
Works to guard the public interest, and prevent the estab-
lishment of tolls which shall discriminate against the inter-
est of the citizens or products of this State, and from time
to time, and as often as there shall be any change in the
rates of toll on any of the said Works, to furnish the said
Board of Public Works a schedule of such modified rates
of toll, and so adjust them as to promote the agricultural
interests of the State; they shall report to the General
Assembly at each regular session, and recommend such
legislation as they may 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. The Governor, Comptroller
and Treasurer shall receive no additional salary for services
rendered by them as members of the Board of Public