ART. 5.] ROADS. 617

ROADS.

1880, ch. 366. 1888, ch. 160.

110. On the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-

eight, and on the same day every two years thereafter, there
shall be held in each election district in Calvert county, an elec-
-tion for a road commissioner of said district, at which each voter
of the said district entitled to vote for a representative in con.
gress shall have the right to vote; and the said election shall be
held by the judges authorized to hold an election for a repre-

sentative in congress; and the person having the largest number

of votes shall be deemed duly elected road commissioner for said

district; and the whole number of persons thus elected shall con-
stitute a commission to be styled "the board of road commission-

ers of Calvert county."

Ibid

111. On the second Tuesday in March succeeding their elec-
tion, the said board of road commissioners shall meet at Prince
Frederick, in an office to be provided for them by the county

commissioners of said county, and shall qualify by each taking
an oath before the clerk of the circuit court for said county,
"that he will faithfully and diligently, and to the best of his

ability, execute the office of road commissioner of Calvert county,"
and shall then organize by electing one of their number to be
the president of said board; and on the same day, or as soon,
thereafter as possible, they shall appoint a person from each
election district to be the road supervisor of said district, to
serve for two years, or until removed by the board of road com-
missioners ; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners

of said county to provide an office suitably furnished for the use
of the said board of road'commissioners, and such books as they
may require.

Ibid.

112. Before the first day in April next succeeding their elec-
tion, the road commissioners and road supervisor of each district
shall ride over and inspect the public roads in their respective
districts; and the said commissioners shall advise and instruct the
said supervisors as to the manner in which the said roads shall