EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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gany County, subject, however, to the right of appeal to the

Circuit Court for said county ; all actions under this section

to be brought in the name of the State of Maryland for the use

of the Road Directors of Allegany County ; and actions under

this section may be instituted by any person cognizant of the

violation of its provisions.

216S. The rights of all persons and corporations who now

Cause for ac-

have actions or cause for actions against the County Commis-

tions.

sioners of Allegany County growing out of their management

or control of the public roads in Allegany County are reserved,

and all suits now pending in any of the courts of this State

against the said Commissioners shall proceed as if this Act

had not passed ; and any person or corporation now having

cause of action against said County Commissioners growing

out of their management or control of said public roads may

bring their actions against said County Commissioners and

prosecute the same to final decision the same as if this Act

had not been passed. The attorney for the County Commis-

sioners shall be the attorney of the Road Directors, without ad-

ditional compensation ; and the County Commissioners shall

Attorney and
clerk.

provide said Directors a room in the court house, and the clerk

of the Commissioners shall act as clerk of the Road Directors

without additional compensation.

216T. Every person who shall use on the roads of Allegany

County, in hauling loads of six thousand pounds weight and

Relating to
width of

upwards, any wagon or wagons having tires less than four

tires, on

inches in width shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for each

wagons.

and every offense upon conviction before a justice of the

peace, which fine shall be held by the Treasurer for said Road;

Directors. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners

to turn over all the property, tools, machinery, material, sup-

plies and other apparatus appropriate to the roads and bridges

to said Road Directors, and to place all maps, evidences of title

and other records of the County appertaining to roads at the

free and full disposal of said Directors. The said Road Direc-

tors shall cause to be published once every year a full, detailed

and itemized statement, giving the names, amounts and purpose

of every expenditure made by them, which said statement shall

be printed on a single sheet of paper ; and said directors may

contract for the publishing of said statement to be published one

time in one or more newspapers in said county, and be printed

by the lowest sealed bidder therefor, a copy of" which statement

shall be enclosed by the Treasurer with the lew list and tax bill

to every taxpayer. The Road Directors and Roads Engineer