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Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930
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DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2337

1912. ch. 514. sec. 272. 1922, ch. 184, sec. 272.

456. The County Commissioners for Dorchester County shall, subject
to the approval of the County Road Engineer, appoint such assistants to
the said engineer in each of the election districts of said county as may
be deemed necessary. Under the control and direction of the County
Road Engineer, the assistants shall supervise the road and bridge work
in their respective districts and perform such other duties as the County
Road Engineer may prescribe. The assistants shall keep the time of all
the employees in their respective districts, and a correct record of all
materials used, and make such reports as may be required thereof, and
certify bills therefor to the County Road Engineer, to be by him approved
before being presented to the County Commissioners for Dorchester
County for payment. For incompetency or wilful neglect of any duty
imposed upon them by this Act, or by the rules and regulations duly made
by the County Road Engineer, and of which they shall be given due
notice, any assistant may be suspended from service at any time by the
County Road Engineer, who shall thereupon state in writing to the County
Commissioners for Dorchester County the reason for such suspension,
and if the action of the County Road Engineer shall be sustained by a
majority vote of the County Commissioners for Dorchester County, the
suspended assistant shall be summarily removed from, office and his suc-
cessor appointed in the manner hereinbefore provided. Each assistant
shall devote his entire time to his duties during such days as the County
Road Engineer may determine.

1912, ch. 514, sec. 273.

457. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County shall have au-
thority and are hereby empowered to compel any trolley or railway com-
pany having or laying tracks on the public highways, roads, avenues or
streets of Dorchester County to change the rails and location of said
tracks so as to make said highways, roads, avenues or streets safer or
better for travel, and to compel the said company or companies to pave
and keep in repair the highways, roads, avenues or streets covered by said
tracks and extending two feet on the outer limits of either side of said
tracks with the same kind of paving material with which the remaining
portion of said highway, road, avenue or street may be paved or im-
proved. The failure of any trolley or railway company to comply with
the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor and punishable by
a fine of twenty dollars a day for each day the said trolley or railway
company shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this section.

1912, ch. 514, sec. 274.

458. Any person appointed under the provisions of this Act whose
duty it shall be to keep accounts or make reports, who shall fail to do so,
or who shall wilfully make false reports or accounts, shall be liable to
indictment by the Grand Jury of Dorchester County; and upon conviction
in the Circuit Court thereof, shall be fined, in the discretion of the court,
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