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regulations with reference to the use of the roads, streets, ave-
nues, lanes, alleys and bridges of the county by telephone and
telegraph companies, steam railroads and street railway com-
parties, gas, water and electric light companies, and similar uses
thereof as the said County Commissioners may consider neces-
sary for the proper protection of said roads, streets, avenues,
lanes, alleys and bridges of the county, and the rights of the
public therein, and shall impose reasonable penalties for the
violations of all such rules 'and regulations, and make other
necessary provisions for the enforcement thereof, and shall have
the right from time to time to change or alter the same, and
all such rules and regulations, when adopted and recorded in
a book or books kept for the purpose, shall have the force and
effect 6f municipal ordinances regularly adopted by authority
of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland; the con-
stables of the county shall be charged with the duty of enforc-
ing all such rules and regulations; and, in addition to the other
methods of enforcing compliance with such rules and regula-
tions, said County Commissioners shall have the right to apply
to the courts of equity of the State for an injunction to enforce
compliance therewith, in which case it shall not be necessary
to make other jurisdictional averment than the threatened
breach of such rules or regulations; and said courts shall have
jurisdiction to grant such injunctions on such allegations being
made. A certified copy of any such rules and regulations shall
be deemed proper evidence of the same in any of the Courts
of this State. The said County Commissioners, in connection
with the performance of their duties under this act, shall have
power to require any party or corporation with whom a contract
is made to do work, or to furnish supplies or materials, to give
bond, with surety to be approved by said commissioners, for the
faithful performance of such contract, and to require a similar
bond of any of the agents or employees appointed by said com-
missioners under the authority of this article.

177I. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County
shall, after the passage of this act, appoint as Montgomery
County Road Superintendent a man of good judgment, having
the necessary technical qualifications and experienced in build-
ing macadam roads; determine the amount of bond which ho
shall give; fix his salary at eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800)
per annum, payable monthly, and may remove such County
Road Superintendent for incompetency, inaptitude, malfeas-
ance or misfeasance in office, upon written charges, after an
opportunity to be heard, not less than five days after the service
of such charges. The term of office of said Road Superintend-