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Meridian Line. 136. How to be established. 137. County commissioners to provide standard measure. 138. Surveyor to annually note and record variation of his compass. 139. Compensation of clerk for recording same. 140. Penalty for injuring pillars or meri- dian line. 141. Cost of establishing meridian line to be paid by county commissioners. Public Roads. 142. Petition for, to county commissioners. 143. What notice petitioner to give. 144. Counter-petitions. 145. Modes of opening; proceedings for. 146. Oath of examiners. 147. Meeting of examiners. 148. Report to county commissioners. 149. To give reasons for their opinion. 150. Consent of owner, when necessary; Allegany, Baltimore, Washington and Wicomico counties excepted. 151. Width of roads. 152. Ascertainment of damages, how made. 153. By whom to be paid. 154. To whom to be paid.

155. Petitioners to pay cost when petition dismissed. 156. Action of county commissioners on return of examiners. 157 Compensation of examiners. 158. Levy to pay cost of opening. 159-160. Sign boards; penalty for injuring. Public Landings. 161. Establishment of public landings. 162. Proceedings similar to those for pub- lic roads. Schools. 163. County commissioners authorized to receive and control money given in trust by will or deed for purposes of education. 164. State's attorneys are charged with duty of seeing to proper execution of such trusts. Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work. 165. Appropriations authorized for farm- ers' co-operative demonstration work in connection with U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture or Md. Agri- cultural College.

General Provisions.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 411. 1906, ch. 249.
1910, ch. 664 (p. 85).

1. The county commissioners of each county in this State are declared
to be a corporation and shall have full power to appoint road supervisors,
collectors of taxes, trustees of the poor, a clerk to their board, and all other
officers, agents and servants required for county purpose not otherwise
provided for by law or by the constitution, and they shall have charge
of and control over the property owned by the county, and over county
roads and bridges, and whenever in their opinion the public interests re-
quire or will be thereby advanced, may commit the whole matter of grad-
ing and constructing public roads and the repairs thereof, and the con-
struction and repairs of public bridges to the charge of competent and
scientifically educated civil engineers, who shall direct and manage all such
public works under the immediate control 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 directed by the said county com-
missioners from time to time, and calculated to secure competent officers
and a faithful discharge of duty; provided that the person appointed to
act as attorney for the county commissioners in Cecil county, under the