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the cutting, widening and cleaning of such ditch or making such improve-
ment on same to the lowest bidder for cash, the time and character of such
advertising to be such as may be adopted by said board. It shall be the
duty of such surveyor and engineer to supervise the cutting or cleansing
of such ditch or ditches, and other improvements, and no ditch or other
improvements shall be received or paid for until after the same has been
examined and reported by said surveyor and engineer to be perfect in all
respects, and to conform to the requirements of the contract for cutting
or making the same, and the drainage or other improvements of such road
completely effected; and the said Board of County Commissioners shall
have such power and authority to condemn outlets for such drainage
through private property as is now or hereafter may be conferred by the
Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, for condemning
public highways; and the said board are authorized to allow and pay said
surveyor or engineer for his services, four dollars per day for every day
he may be actually engaged in such service for the county.

1892, ch. 346, sec. 48'A.

41. In order to procure the money or moneys necessary to adopt such
system of drainage and improvement of the public roads as provided for
in the foregoing section the Board of County Commissioners are hereby
authorized and empowered to issue from time to time and put on the
market bonds to be denominated, Somerset County Road Bonds, for an
amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate which bonds,
shall be issued in amounts of not less than one hundred dollars for each
bond, payable in forty years from the date thereof and bearing interest
at the rate of four per cent, per annum, the interest to be provided for by
levy on the assessable property of the county each year after the same or
any part thereof have been issued and disposed of and said bonds shall
not be subject to taxation for State, county and municipal purposes and
after twenty years from the date of said bonds, the said Board of County
Commissioners shall make provisions by levy annually for such amount
as may be necessary to meet and pay the principal of said bonds at their
maturity.

1892, ch. 346, sec. 48B.

42. Said Board of County Commissioners shall be authorized and
empowered to divide any election district in Somerset County in which
there shall be over six hundred registered voters into two or more voting
precincts and to locate and provide the necessary buildings and suitable
accommodations for holding elections and primaries therein.

This section has been superseded by general election laws. See Art. 33 of Anno-
tated Code.

1892, oh. 346, sec. 48C.

43. Said Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and
required to adopt such measures and expend such sums of money as may