126 PUBLIC ROADS. [ART. 78A

Board of State Sidepath Commissioners.

1900, ch. 668.

8. The Governor is authorized to appoint five active wheel-
men, two of whom shall be residents of Baltimore city, to con-
stitute a board of State sidepath commissioners, who shall serve
without compensation except their actual and necessary disburse-
ments in the performance of their duties, and whose term of
office shall be designated at one, two, three, four and five years,
and until their respective successors shall be appointed. As the
term of office of each commissioner expires the Governor shall
appoint a successor thereto for the full term of five years, and he
shall fill any vacancy which may occur in such board of side-
path commissioners for the balance of any unexpired term.

Ibid.

9. Such board of State sidepath commissioners shall appoint,
upon the petition of fifteen resident wheelmen in any county,
a county board of sidepath commissioners to consist of five resi-
dent wheelmen, upon the approval of the county commissioners
first had and obtained. Said county board of sidepath com-
missioners shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of a
local board of sidepath commissioners of Baltimore city, such
as are provided in this sub-title for the county board of sidepath
commissioners in any county. The term of office of the county
board of sidepath commissioners shall be co-existent with that of
the board of State sidepath commissioners.

Ibid.

10. Any county board of sidepath commissioners having first
obtained the consent in writing of the county commissioners,
with the advice and consent of the State board of sidepath com-
missioners, shall be authorized to lay out, construct and maintain
sidepaths along the edges of any public highway in the county
from which they are appointed, between the traveled portions
thereof and the line of the abutting property; and the county
commissioners of any county are hereby empowered to exercise
all the duties and powers which the road laws of any county
may provide, BO far as the laws are applicable, to enable and
assist in building the sidepaths as provided in this sub-title.