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use of the same by traction engines, wagon, sleds and such other vehicles
or conveyances as by such use produce more than an ordinary amount of
wear and tear thereon. Such orders and regulations, when and as promul-
gated or altered, shall be published once a week for three successive weeks
in some newspaper of the county in which the road or roads affected may
lie. Any person knowingly violating any such order or regulation shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned
for not less than ten days nor more than three months, or both fined and
imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

An. Code, sec. 66. 1904, sec. 33. 1904, ch. 225, sec. 1. 1910, ch. 217, sec. 33 (p. 314).

43. All of the powers and duties specified and set forth in sections 33,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 of this
article and sub-title as the same are set forth in the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of 1904, formerly conferred upon the commission composed of
the governor, the comptroller, the president of Johns Hopkins University,
and the president of the Maryland Agricultural College, known as the
State Geological and Economic Survey, which said commission is de-
scribed in section 19 of this article, are hereby transferred from the said
commission, the State Geological and Economic Survey, and imposed
upon and given to the state roads commission, created by act of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, chapter 141 of the acts of 1908, or any
amendments thereto, together with all accounts, records, contracts, obliga-
tions, unexpended balances, and all property and things appertaining to
the same, and to the said State Geological and Economic Survey, which
said last-named commission shall continue to have authority with ref-
erence thereto after the act of 1910, chapter 217, shall take effect for the
purpose of making the transfer and delivery hereby authorized and di-
rected of the said accounts, records, contracts, obligations, unexpended bal-
ances, and all property and things appertaining to the same as aforesaid,
in a proper and orderly manner for the protection of the interests of the
State, to the state roads commission, and upon making such transfer the
said State Geological and Economic Survey shall prepare and duly certify
to the state roads commission a statement of all amounts and balances due
from it under lawful contracts and accounts, and of all unexpended bal-
ances due to it, together with a list and description of its account and
record books and property; and all acts of the General Assembly referring
to the State Geological and Economic Survey as the commission set forth
in section 19 x of this article, and to any of its powers and duties trans-
ferred hereby to the state roads commission, shall thereafter be taken
and held to refer to the state roads commission and the powers and duties
conferred upon it. Whenever any board of county commissioners of any
county in this State shall, by resolution, have declared their intention to
cause any particular road, or section thereof, within such county, to be
built or improved under the provisions of this sub-title, such board shall

1 Although figure " 1 " appears here in the official acts of 1910 instead of figures " 19,"
an examination of original act as passed shows that " 19 " is correct.