3120 ARTICLE 14.

vision of a non-paid commission, which is provided for in Section 284 of
this Article, under plans and specifications prepared by a competent engi-
neer, said engineer to be appointed by the County Commissioners, and to
be paid out of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds for the actual
work performed by him.

1904, ch. 195, sec. 7. 1906, ch. 297, sec. 7.

284. The County Commissioners of Howard county shall appoint
three men of integrity in each of the several districts that shall petition
the County Commissioners as provided for in the foregoing sections of this
Act, who shall be registered voters of the district from which the said
petition was filed, and whose duties shall be: (1) to select t'he roads to
be improved, repaired or built; (2) to determine the character of material
to be used in the building or repairing of said roads; (3) to determine
whether the work to be done shall be let by contract or performed by day
labor, and if by day labor said non-paid commission shall have charge of
said work, employing such labor, teams and such equipment as may be
necessary, and shall dispose of the same in such manner as will be most
economical and best for the benefit of the public; (4) the said non-paid
commission shall require the engineer herein provided for to certify, at
the conclusion of the grading by the non-paid commission, whether or not
the grades of the roads to be repaired or built are in accordance with the
specifications prepared by said engineer for such road; (5) and to have
general supervision over the said work. All moneys paid for work done
and material furnished upon said roads shall be paid by the County Com-
missioners upon vouchers presented to said County Commissioners, signed
by the said non-paid commission; all roads so built or repaired shall be
of stone, gravel or other hard substance, and shall be built under the plans
and specifications furnished by said engineer, giving the grades, levels,
etc., and an estimate of the probable cost of constructing said road with
the materials recommended to be used by the said non-paid commission;
but no engineer or neither of said non-paid commission shall have any
pecuniary interest in any contract, and shall furnish no teams for any
work unless previously authorized in writing by the County Commis-
sioners.

1898, ch. 427.

285. The County Commissioners of Howard county are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to accept as a public road at its present width,
the road in the first election district of Howard county, called "The Law-
yer's Hill Road," which said road runs from Montgomery road to a point
on the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near the
south end of the Thomas viaduct.

BICYCLES ON SIDEWALKS.
1900, ch. 252, sec. 1.

286. Any person who shall ride a bicycle or other vehicle of that
description on any sidewalk or footway laid along any public road in