4914 ARTICLE 22.

1912, ch. 617, sec. 342D. 1924, ch. 75, sec. 342D.

715. Any person or persons placing an obstruction upon any of the
public highways, roads, bridges, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys of Wash-
ington County or interfering with, or obstructing the side ditches or drains
thereof, or encroaching upon the same with fences or other obstructions
or in any other manner, or any person or corporation, its agents or em-
ployees, exercising the business of a common carrier, permitting his or
its vehicles or steam or other engines or cars to obstruct any crossing for
a longer period than ten minutes at any one time shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be liable to arrest and prosecution at the instance
of any road official, his or their representatives or at the instance of
any taxpayer of the County; and upon conviction by any Justice of the
Peace exercising criminal jurisdiction in Washington County shall be
fined in an amount not less than One Dollar ($1.00) nor more than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) for each offence; any person arrested under this section
shall have the right to elect that his case be sent to the Circuit Court for
trial. All fines collected under this section shall be paid into the Gen-
eral Road and Bridge Fund of the County.

1912, ch. 617, sec. 342E. 1924, ch. 75, sec. 342B.

716. Conditional upon his acceptance of the position, Edgar T. Hay-
man, of Washington County, who is a graduate in Civil Engineering with
more than ten years experience in responsible charge of important road
and bridge building, and who is at present County Road Superintendent
of Washington County, be and he is hereby constituted and appointed Road
Engineer of Washington County, to hold office from the date of the passage
of this Act until removed for cause as hereinafter provided, or until he
voluntarily relinquishes the same. The Road Engineer of Washington
County shall be directly answerable to the County Commissioners of
Washington County for the faithful and efficient discharge of his duties
and the said County Commissioners may remove him from office and he
shall be removable from office by them only for wilful neglect of duty,
inefficiency, dishonesty, or such other cause as may impair his usefulness
in his administration of County affairs relating to roads. But the said
Road Engineer shall not be removable from his office by the County Com-
missioners except upon the sworn complaint of ten or more resident tax-
payers of Washington County to be filed with the County Commissioners
or upon sworn complaint by the Clerk of the County Commissioners, filed
by their direction, and every such complaint shall state specifically the
nature and the character of the charges preferred, of which due and
reasonable notice shall be given the Road Engineer. Hearings in regard
to the removal of the Road Engineer shall be public, the Road Engineer
and the parties making complaint shall be entitled to representation by
counsel and to produce any competent testimony, and the Road Engineer
shall have the right to appeal from the decisions of the County Commis-
sioners to the Governor of the State of Maryland, who shall review the
case and may either affirm or overrule the decisions of the said County
Commissioners thereon. Whenever a vacancy exists in the office of Road