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a) to exercise a diligent and faithful supervision of all public works in which
the state was interested as stockholder or creditor,

b) to represent the state in all meetings of stockholders,

c) to appoint the directors in every railroad or canal company in which the
state had the constitutional power to appoint directors,

d) to review the toll rates "adopted by any company" and to use "all legal
powers which they may possess" to obtain rates that could prevent an in-
jurious competition with each other to the detriment of the state, and to
adjust them to promote the agriculture of the state,

e) to keep a journal, of their proceedings and to make a report to the legislature
at each regular session,

f) to recommend such legislation as they deemed necessary to promote or pro-
tect the state's interest in the public works, and

g) to perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law.