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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Laws, title ''Allegany County," sub-title "County Commis-

sioners and Roads," and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and add certain additional sections to said Article I,

sub-title "Roads," and to provide for a road directory and

a Road Engineer in Allegany County, and to place all the

public roads in said Allegany County under the control of

the Road Directory to be created by this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Allegany

land, That Sections 33, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215 and 216 of

County roads.

Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany

County," sub-title "County Commissioners and Roads," be and

they are hereby repealed, and said Sections 211 to 216, both

inclusive, are hereby re-enacted with amendments, and twenty

additional sections are hereby added to said Article I to be

designated 216A, 216B, 216C, 216D, 216E, 216F, 216G, 216H,

216I, 216J, 216K, 216L, 216M, 216N, 216O, 216P, 216Q,

216R, 216S and 216T, to read as follows:

211. Messrs. Daniel F. McMullen, David P. Miller, Elza W.

Road Directors

Nave and James Findley are hereby appointed and delegated

to act as Road Directors for said county for the term of two

years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. The

above named persons shall hold office until February 1, 1906.

The persons here appointed shall immediately meet and select

one of their number as chairman thereof. The said Road Direc-

tors shall each give bond to the County Commissioners, proper-

ly conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, in the

penal sum of five thousand dollars. If the bond of a surety

company be given the same shall be paid for out of the Road

Directors' account. The qualified voters of Allegany County

shall, at the general election in 1905, and every two years

thereafter, elect four persons to serve as Road Directors for a

Election of
same.

period of two years each, or until their successors are elected

and qualified ; provided, however, that not more than two

persons shall be declared elected from any single political

party. There shall be nominated for the position of Road

Directors four persons of each political party entitled to be

placed on the official ballot, said nomination to be made in

any manner that is legal in said county.

212. The Road Directors provided for in the preceding sec-

Made a body

tion are hereby made a body corporate, under the name and title

corporate.

of "The Road Directors for Allegany County," with power to

sue and be sued, and their powers, duties and obligations with