4264 ARTICLE 18.

purpose, all papers and proceedings in their office relating to the opening,
altering, condemning and locating of public roads and public landings in

said cotinty, and the building or purchasing of joint public bridges.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 228. 1888, ch. 361.

366. They are authorized, required and directed to employ some suit-
able person to make said record up to December, 1887, under the super-
vision and direction of said commissioners or their attorney, for which
they shall allow him one cent for every ten words or figures so copied or
recorded, and fifty cents for each plat; and they are authorized to levy
upon the assessable property of said county a sum sufficient to pay for
said work in installments as the work progresses, on the approval of said
work and presentation of true, correct and itemized statements of said
work, certified to under oath by said employee.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 229. 1888-, ch. 361.

367. Said record of such proceedings relating to the opening, altering,
condemning and locating of said public roads and landings, and building
or purchasing of joint public bridges, shall hereafter be continuously kept
up by said county commissioners as part of the general work of said
office, to be done by the clerk authorized by law to be employed by them.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 230. 1888, ch. 361.

368. A certified copy of the proceedings relating to the opening, alter-
ing, condemning and locating of any public road or public landings, and
the purchase or building of any joint public bridge taken or made from
said record, as hereinbefore certified to by the clerk of said county com-
missioners, under the seal of said office, shall be legal evidence.

1910, ch. 35, sec. 230A (p. 1068).

369. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County are author-
ized and empowered to control and regulate the public roads and bridges
In said county, subject to the provisions of this Act.

1910, ch. 35, sec. 230B (p. 1068).

370. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County shall, at the
time of making their annual levy, levy upon the taxable property of said

county a tax of not less than fifteen cents on the hundred dollars, which
shall be used for the repair and reconstruction of public roads and bridges
in said county, which taxes shall be levied and collected as are other county
taxes. The said County Commissioners may appropriate or levy such

other sum or sums of money as they may deem requisite for building of
new bridges and opening of new roads, and for repairing and reconstruct-
ing public roads and bridges in said county. All of the taxes levied and

collected under the provisions of this Section shall be disbursed by the said
County Commissioners upon the roads and bridges in said county, and in
the manner hereinafter provided, and in no other.