PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1473

County shall be recorded in books kept for the purpose, or be
bound in book form, and shall always be open to the inspection
of the public; the original copies of all reports to said commis-
sioners and other papers not recorded shall be preserved in the
office. Copies of such contracts, agreements, grants and licenses
recorded as aforesaid, and of the records of the proceedings of
the commissioners, when duly certified by the clerk of said
commissioners, shall be accepted as evidence in all the courts
of this State.

Ibid. sec. 177G.

455. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County
shall by and with the advice and assistance of the Montgomery
County Road Superintendent, adopt such system or systems for
the care and repair of the public highways, roads and bridges,
streets and alleys of the county as may be found most suitable
for the several sections of the county or the special roads thereof.
The county commissioners shall have prepared an official road
map of the county, which may be in sections of one or more
election districts upon which shall be designated all county
roads, which map shall be prepared within such reasonable time
as the moneys at the command of said commissioners will per-
mit; whenever a new road shall be opened or accepted, or an old
road altered or closed, its location, or the fact that it has been
altered or closed, shall be properly designated on said map.
Said county commissioners may, in their discretion, have finger-
boards or sign-posts placed at road crossings or intersections
designating the distance to the nearest prominent point, and
may give suitable names to county roads, and change the same
as they may see fit. They may cause monuments erected or to
be erected on the boundaries of highways, to be kept up and
renewed, so that the extent of such highway boundaries may be
publicly known, and erect and establish new monuments as
may, in their judgment, be required.

1910, ch. 177H.

456. All matters pertaining to and affecting the public
highways, roads, bridges, avenues, streets and alleys of the
county shall be under the general control and supervision of
the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, who are
hereby given power to enter into and make any and all con-
tracts for material, machinery, implements and equipment for
such public highways, and to employ or direct the employment
of so many and such agents, superintendents, foreman, inspec-
tors, assistants, mechanics and laborers as may be found nec-
essary for the proper construction, care, improvement and main-
tenance of the same, and to fix the rate of compensation thereof.

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