724 ARTICLE 3.

bridges of the county and the rights of the public therein, and impose1
reasonable penalties for a violation of such rules and regulations and make
other necessary provisions for thei 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 ordi-
nances regularly adopted by authority of Legislature of the State of
Maryland. The police, magistrates and constables of the county shall be
charged with the duty of enforcing all such rules and regulations; and,
in addition to other methods of enforcing all such rules and regulations;
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 said courts
shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunction on such allegations being
made. A certified copy of any of such rules and regulations shall be
deemed proper evidence of the same in any of the courts of this State.

1904, ch. 465. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 341. 1914, ch. 465. B. Co. C. (1915), sec. 465.
1916, sec. 495. 1928 sec. 580.

580. All matters pertaining to and affecting the public highways, roads,
bridges, streets and alleys of the county shall be under the general control
and supervision of said County Commissioners, who are hereby given
power to enter into and make any and all contracts for material, machin-
ery and implements for such public highways and to employ or direct the
employemnt of so many and such agents, superintendents, foremen, in-
spectors, assistants, mechanics and laborers as may be found necessary for
the proper care and maintenance of the same, and to fix the rate of com-
pensation thereof. Said County Commissioners shall have full power to
determine how the roads of the county and any special road or roads
thereof may be worked, repaired and maintained and to regulate the
wages that shall be paid employees engaged in such work and the prices
to be paid for material to be used on the same, and to provide for such
clerical or other assistance as may be required by them or the Roads Engi-
neer of the county for the efficient performance of their several duties.
Such Commissioners shall have the power to let out the repair or main-
tenance of any road or portion of a road by contract when, in the judg-
ment of said Roads Engineer, such course is deemed advisable, in which
case preference shall be given, where practicable, to the owners of land
directly interested in the proper care of such road or roads, and such
work shall be done under the supervision of road supervisors of the dis-
trict. Whenever any taxpayer of the county shall offer to haul, stone or
other hard material upon any public road of his district at the price paid
for the same on such road or in such locality, the County Commissioners
or Road Supervisor of the district, shall give such taxpayer the prefer-
ence, provided such stone or other hard material is in condition for spread-
ing on the road when hauled, if so required by the County Commissioners
or Road Supervisor for the district, and that its quality is approved by