JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

Commissioners shall not pay in full for making such road
until the same shall have been thoroughly examined and ac-
cepted by them, and all roads opened under the provisions of
this Article shall be at least thirty feet wide.

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Sec. 216. The building and repairs of all bridges in Balti-
more County shall be under the control of the County Com-
missioners, and whenever twenty or more taxable inhabitants
of said county shall desire the building or repairs of any
bridge, they may make application to the County Commis-
sioners by petition, setting forth the location of the proposed
bridge, or the character and extent of the proposed repairs
and the probable cost of the same. The County Commission-
ers may then appoint a board of examiners, to consist of the
chairman of the Board of Road Commissioners of the district
in which the bridge may be, one disinterested taxpayer to be
named by the petitioners, and the Baltimore County Roads
Engineer, to meet on the premises, on some day to be named
in the order of appointments, and examine and determine
whether the public convenience required the granting of the
application and the probable cost thereof; and they shall re-
port in writing their opinion and determination in the prem-
ises and their reasons therefor, and if the County Commis-
sioners shall be of the opinion that such application ought to
be granted, if it be for a new bridge, or extensive repairs upon
a standing bridge, they shall advertise in two or more news-
papers in Baltimore County, setting forth the location of the

Building and
repairs of
bridges.

proposed bridge, with full specifications of the size, plan and
material, and the sealed proposals for building or repairing
such bridge will be received until a certain day and hour in
said advertisement named. The County Commissioners shall
award the contract for the work to the lowest responsible and
competent builder. The contractor shall give bond in double
the amount of the contract price for the faithful performance
of the contract, and the Commissioners shall in no case fully
pay for such work until it shall have been thoroughly exam-
ined and accepted by them.

Sealed pro-
posals for
building, etc.

Sec. 217. When directed by the County Commissioners the
Baltimore Roads Engineer shall make drawings and furnish
specifications for new bridges to be erected, and shall make
drawings and specifications for repairs on old bridges.

Drawings and
specifications.

Sec. 211 A. It shall not be lawful for any person or corpora-
tion whose business is that of a common carrier to stop its or
their vehicles, cars, or engines upon any of the road beds or
crossings of any of the public roads in Baltimore County over
or across which the said vehicles, cars or engines may run for

Regulating
the stoppage
of vehicles,
etc., on road
beds.