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thereby advanced, commit the whole matter of grad-
ing and constructing public roads, and the repairs	May commit
thereof, and the construction and repairs of public	to engineers.
bridges, to the charge of competent and scientifical
educated civil engineers, who shall direct and man-
age all such public works under the immediate con-
trol of said County Commissioners, and who shall
hold office for such time, with such salary, under such
bond and subject to such regulations as may be di-
rected by the said County Commissioners from time
to time, and calculated to secure competent officers,
and a faithful discharge of duty ; and the County Com- missioners of each county, shall also have power to
locate, alter or change the places of holding elections
in the different election districts, or townships of
their respective counties, as may afford the best op-
portunity for full and fair expression of popular will.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 412.
AN ACT to empower Joshua F. Cockey, of Balti-
more county, executor of Joshua F. Cockey, late
of Baltimore county, deceased, to donate a lot of
ground to a church or a religious society, as he
may select, and give title to same.
WHEREAS, It hath been duly represented to this
General Assembly, that legal representatives of Mrs. Penelope J. Gist, late of Baltimore county, who died	Preamble.
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, and by her
last will, duly executed and recorded in the Register
of Wills' office for Baltimore county, see liber W. B.
number 11, folio one hundred and thirty-four, and
did set aside a graveyard of one acre of land together
with a road leading therefrom, to the nearest public
road of at least twenty feet wide, out of the lot num-