100 ARTICLE 1.

ments which may be necessary for the commencement, prosecution and
completion of said subway constructed as the sole undertaking of said
County Commissioners, without the participation or contribution of others.

HEALTH OFFICER.

1922, ch. 116, sec. 1.

281. The local Board of Health of Allegany County is hereby author-
ized to fix and determine the annual salary of the Health Officer of Alle-
gany County, and that the County Commissioners of said Allegany County
shall from year to year assess and levy against the assessable property in
Allegany County such amount of money as may be required to pay the
salary of such Health Officer.

1922, ch. 116, sec. 2.

282. The said Health Officer shall be appointed by the said Board of
Health and shall devote all his time and attention to the duties of his office,
and he shall not accept any fee or emolument of any kind other than the
annual salary aforesaid. He shall be trained in Sanitary Science, Public
Health and Hygiene. And the said Board of Health shall have the power
and authority at the time of said appointment, and from time to time
thereafter to make and enter into a contract with said County Health
Officer for such period as may be mutually agreeable, but always with the
understanding and power to discharge the said Health Officer for such
cause as shall be deemed sufficient to said Board of Health after due notice
to said Health Officer of the reason for said contemplated removal, with
the right to the said Health Officer to be heard by said Board in his own
behalf.

1922, ch. 116, sec. 3.

283. The time of office for said Health Officer shall begin upon the
making of said contract, and the term of any person or persons acting as
Health Officer for said county under any Act of the General Assembly now
in force shall cease and determine, and that any and all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent that they are
inconsistent, but only to the extent of such inconsistency, and only as the
same shall regard Allegany County.

HOOP-POLES AND TIMBER.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 165. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 89.

284. If any person shall cut down, or cause or induce any person to
cut down, any timber or tree of a size not less than those commonly used
for hoop-poles in Allegany County, with intent to steal the same, or any
part thereof, every person so offending, his aiders and abettors having
knowledge of such intent to steal, shall be adjudged guilty of felony,