238 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

employed in the supervision of repairs of the roads in their dis-
tricts ; and the road commissioners thus appointed shall have the
same control over roads and bridges, and organize their district
boards in the same manner as hereinbefore provided. All ac-
counts for monies expended on account of roads, and for actual
expenses, or for compensation for commissioners, shall be item-
ized, sworn to before a justice of the peace of the county, and
presented to the county commissioners for approval by the road
commissioners claiming payment thereof.

1882, ch. 49.

211. Whenever any owner of property in Baltimore county shall
have opened, laid out, or graded any avenue or road for the public
convenience, and is willing to dedicate the same to public uses
by good and sufficient deed duly recorded, the county commis-
sioners are authorized to accept the same, if in their opinion the
same be necessary and convenient for public use; and upon such
acceptance the said avenue or road so dedicated shall be deemed
and taken to be for all purposes a county road, and as such shall
be kept in good order and repair by the road commissioners of
the district in which it may be situated; provided, however, that
previous to such acceptance said road shall not be less than thirty
feet in width and duly and properly graded, in the judgment
of the county commissioners.

Ibid.

212. Whenever any road shall have been in use for twenty
years, though the same may not have been condemned or granted
as a public highway, the county commissioners, if they deem
public necessity requires the adoption of the same as such, shall
declare the said road to be a public highway, with full power to
relocate and straighten the same, in their discretion, and shall
publish a notice to that effect once a week, for two successive
weeks in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore county,
provided said road shall not be less than thirty feet in width;
and such road so declared to be a public highway shall be kept
in good order and repair by the road commissioners of the district
in which such road is situated, as other public roads are, at an
expense, however, at no time to exceed one hundred dollars per
mile.