206 COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

FERRIES.

144 Grant of license to keep public ferry 145 Person licensed to give bond, condition 146 Grant of license where license exists 147. Land may be condemned for public ferry, proceedings 148 Proceedings of jury 149 Right of appeal, judgment of com t. 150 Bight to redeem land condemned. 151. When ferries to be established 152 May be rented or contracts made for keeping. 153 Where contract, bond to be taken 154 Bates of ferriage and kinds of boats 155 Copy of license or contract to be set up and rates of ferriage.

156 Penalty for keeping ferry without license or contract 157 How boats on bay to be furnished 158 Ferry keeper, how punished for neglect of duty 159 Penalty for injury to property of ferry 160 By whom boats to be furnished 161 Where boat belongs to a county or two counties, etc, residents may be passed free 162 Contracts may be made through agents 163 Bonds, where to be recorded

MERIDIAN LINE STANDARD.

164. County commissioners may erect meridian marks, surveyors to have access, lati- tude and longitude to bo marked 165 Standard measure 166 Compasses to be tested, penalty for neg- lect

167 Fees of county clerk for recording certifi- cates of variations, etc. 168 Penalty for defacing meridian marks 169 Expenses, how paid

CROWS.

170 Reward for killing 171 Oath before entitled to allowance.

172 Heads to be destroyed, certificate to per- son bringing 173 To what counties not applicable

Art 28, 6 1 1874, c 411 County commis- sioners, a corporation Powers 6 Md 468, 20 Md 467, 468, 35 Md 385, 44 Md 1

1. The county commissioners of each county in this State, are declared to be a corporation, and shall have full power to appoint judges of election, road supervisors, collectors of taxes, trustees of the poor, a clerk to their board, and all other officers, agents, and servants required for county purposes, not otherwise provided for by law or by the Constitution, and they shall have charge of and control over the property owned by the county, and over county roads and bridges, and may, whenever in their opinion the public interest requires or will be thereby advanced, commit the whole mat- ter of grading and constructing public roads, and the repair thereof, and the construction and repairs of public bridges, to the charge of competent and scientifical educated civil-engineers, who shall direct and manage all such public works under the immediate control of said county commissioners, and who shall hold office for such time, with such salary, under such bond and subject to such regula- tions as may be directed by the said county commissioners from time to time, and calculated to secure competent officers, and a faithful discharge of duty; and the county commissioners of each county shall also have power to locate, alter, or change the places of holding elections in the different election districts, or townships of their re- spective counties, as may afford the best opportunity for full and

Id s 2 1804, c 73, ss 3, 6. May sue and be sued 12 G & J 399, 484, 2 Wallace, 601

fair expression of popular will. 2. They may sue and be sued, and may sue for any injury done to the property of the county, or to recover possession thereof, or may be sued by any claimant of such property.