WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4913

each year in different parts of the County for the discussion of road mat-
ters ; reasonable notice of the said meetings to be given by advertisement
and such meetings to be attended by the Road Engineer, and at least one
member of the Board of County Commissioners. The said County Com-
missioners shall have the power to let out the repair or maintenance of
any road or portion of road by contract, when, in the judgment of the
said Road Engineer, such course is deemed advisable, in which case pref-
erence shall be given, where practicable, to the owners of the land directly
interested in the proper care of such road or roads, and such work shall
be done under the supervision of the said Road Engineer. All contracts
made by the County Commissioners for the repair or construction of roads
or bridges shall be reduced to writing and all payments thereunder shall
be subject to the approval by the Road Engineer of the work done under
the contract. Whenever work on any road or bridge involves an outlay
of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.) or more, plans and specifications there-
for may be prepared by the Road Engineer and bids for the work invited
by reasonable publication in such paper or papers as the County Commis-
sioners may designate; but it shall not be obligatory upon the said County
Commissioners to have any work done by contract if it be found that the
same can be done at less expense by direct employment of the required
labor. The County Commissioners of Washington County shall have the
power to make all such rules and regulations with reference to the use of
the roads, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys and bridges of the County by tele-
phone and telegraph companies, steam railroads and street railways com-
panies, gas, water and electric light companies, and similar uses thereof,
and by individuals and the traveling public, as the County Commissioners
may consider necessary for the proper protection of the said roads, streets,
avenues, lanes, alleys and bridges of the County and the rights of the
public therein, and to impose reasonable penalties for the violation of
such rules and regulations and may make other necessary provisions for
the enforcement thereof, and shall have the right from time to time to
change or alter the same; and all such rules and regulations, when adopted
and recorded in a book or books kept for the purpose, shall have the force
and effect of municipal ordinances regularly adopted by authority of the
Legislature of the State of Maryland. The police, magistrates and con-
stables of the said County shall be charged with the duty of enforcing
all such rules and regulations; and, in addition, to other methods of en-
forcing all of such rules and regulations, the said County Commissioners
shall have the right to apply to the Courts of Equity of the State for an
injunction to enforce compliance therewith, in which case it shall not be
necessary to make other Jurisdictional averment than the threatened breach
of such rules or regulations, and the said Courts shall have jurisdiction to
grant such injunctions on such allegations being made. A certified copy
of such rules and regulations shall be deemed the proper evidence of the
same in any of the Courts of this State.