ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY.

pointment, till the proper time for electing his succes-
sor. Three of the board shall constitute a quorum:

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Sub-Sec. 3. The local board of supervisors thus '
elected and constituted, shall meet in their respective
primary road districts within ten days after their
election, at some convenient and central point, and
organize their board by electing a chairman, treasurer,
secretary and collector from their own number, the
compensation of each supervisor to be at the rate of
one dollar and a half per day for every day in which
he may be engaged in the performance of any duties
required by this law, either as supervisors, examiner or
member of the central board, to be hereinafter created.

Organizing
all boards.

Sub-Sec. 4. The said local boards of each primary
district shall, immediately after their organization, pro-
ceed to devide each of said primary districts into five
sub-districts, as nearly equal in the extent of roads to
be supervised, as practicable, and to define their bounds
and describe them by numbering or otherwise, such
description to be recorded in a book to be kept for that
purpose.

Sub-districts.

150. The chairman of each local board of supervi-
sors shall, by virtue of his position as said chairman,
be a member of a board to be styled the central board
of review and control of roads and bridges of Balti-
more county — seven of the thirteen members thus
created a board to form a quorum for the transaction
of business.

Central board
of review and
control of roads
and bridges.

Sub-Sec. 2. And the duties of the central board shall
be to hear and determine all cases of appeal arising
from difference of opinion between the local boards of
two or more primary districts; to decide the amounts
to be paid by each for every road, bridge or other im-
provements in which more than one district is inter-
ested; to take especial charge of any road, bridge, cul-
vert or other improvement which cannot be agreed
upon by the local boards interested in such improve-
ments, and in such case to contract for the same and
assess the amount to be paid by each primary district,
which they shall determine to be just and proper, in

Duties of cen-
tral board.