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ARTICLE 25.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

	General Provisions. 1. General powers of commissioners. 7. Qualification; meetings. 11. Repealed.	12. Publication of county expenses. Public Roads. 151. Width of roads.

General Provisions.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 411.
1906, ch. 249. 1910, ch. 664 (p. 85). 1929, ch. 354.

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 pro-
vided 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 require or will
be thereby advanced, may commit the whole matter of grading and con-
structing public roads and the repairs thereof, and the construction and
repairs of public bridges to the charge of competent and scientifically edu-
cated 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 commissioners from
time to time, and calculated to secure competent officers and a faithful dis-
charge of duty.

This section and secs. 2. 13 and 14 referred to in construing art. 91, sec. 28—
see notes thereto. Huffman v. State Roads Commn., 152 Md. 578.

2.

This section and sec. 14 referred to in holding that Road Directors of Allegany
County could condemn land for highway purposes in incorporated town; power
to build permanent and temporary bridge. Brady v. Road Directors, 148 Md.
500.

See notes to sec. 1.

4.

Invalidity of election does not create vacancy within meaning of this section,
but incumbents hold over until successors are elected and qualified. Benson v.
Mellor. 152 Md. 485.

As to the elimination of grade crossings, see art. 91, sec. 38A, et seq.
As to acquisition of air ports by county commissioners, see art. 1A, sec. 28.
As to the purchase of water, sewerage or drainage systems by municipalities, see
art. 43. sec. 348, et seq.