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metallic shield or badge indicating that he is an employee or servant of the
State Roads Commission of Maryland; provided, however, that no con-
tractor, his employee or servant shall be permitted under this section to
make any arrests.

An. Code, 1924, art. 91, sec. 35A. 1912, art. 91, sec. 48. 1910, ch. 116, sec. 32P (p. 304).

1931. ch. 539, sec. 10.

10. For the purpose of making and maintaining connections between
any highways or the parts of any highway constructed or improved under
the provisions of the preceding sections, the State Roads Commission shall
have the power to build bridges; and to acquire by purchase, condemnation,
or otherwise (and to maintain when so acquired) any existing bridges
along, in the line of, or connected with any such highway or highways.

An. Code, 1924, art. 91, sec. 36. 1912, art. 91, sec. 51. 1910, ch. 116, sec. 32S (p. 306),

1931, ch 539, sec. 11.

11. The State Roads Commission is hereby authorized to establish a
stone-crushing plant, or plants, to produce road material available most
economically for water or other transportation, and shall have the power
to rent, purchase or condemn stone quarries, gravel, clay, sand and shell
deposits with rights of way thereto, and wharves and landings and switches
for shipping or receiving material, and storage places, and to do all other
things necessary and proper in connection with the purchasing, producing,
accumulating and distributing such road material, including the hire and
purchase of any and all means of land water transportation for the same.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 12.

12. Whenever any railroad or railway company shall cross said road
it shall be required to keep its own road-bed and the bed of the said
highway in proper repair or else to have constructed an overhead or
undergrade crossing subject to the approval of the said commission or in
conformity to the provisions of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws as to crossings of railroad companies in regard to flagmen
and electric bells; and the tracks of such railroads or railways shall be so
constructed as to give absolutely safe and easy approach to and crossing
thereof; and in case of failure so to construct, the said commission shall
construct the same, and upon certification of said construction and the cost
thereof, after due notification to such company to construct and its fail-
ure so to do the cost thereof shall ex parte be rendered a judgment against
such company by the Circuit Court or any justice of the peace in such
counties before whom such proceedings shall have been instituted.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 13.

13. Whenever a State highway and any railroad or railway, worked by
steam or other power, cross each other at the same level and it shall appear
to the State Roads Commission that such crossing is dangerous to public
safety or that the public travel on such way is impeded thereby, the State