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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAP. 365	highways, roads, bridges, streets and alleys of Carroll county except within the limits of incorporated towns; it shall be
	Commission- ers to have general charge, etc., over public highways, etc. .	their duty to keep the same in repair and reasonably safe for public travel, and to that end they shall exercise a general supervision over them throughout the county, and direct general and special repairs and improvements thereto, when- ever they shall deem the same necessary or advisable for the public convenience or safety; they shall have all the powers with respect to the public highways of the county heretofore vested in the County Commissioners by the public general laws of this State, and all the liabilities incident thereto, including the right to sue and be sued in connection there- with, and in addition shall have all the powers hereinafter enumerated, and all such other and further powers as may be reasonably implied from the nature of the duties imposed upon them by this Act. In order to more effectually per- form their duties and carry out the provisions of this Act, they shall designate and fix a certain day or days in each month when they shall meet and consider all matters relat- ing to the public roads and bridges of the county, at which meeting no other business shall be transacted or considered. Separate books shall be provided by them, in which full minutes of these proceedings shall be entered, and all records and reports relating to the roads and bridges of the county. Section 135. It shall be the duty of said County Commis- sioners, as soon as possible after the passage of this Act, to divide the county into road districts, the boundaries of which
	Road districts	shall correspond, as far as practicable, with the present election districts thereof. In case any election district is, in their judgment, too large to be successfully supervised, as hereinafter provided, they may divide it into " sub-road districts." Each road district and sub-road district thereof shall be numbered, and all public roads and large bridges in the county shall be named, and, as far as possible, the names by which they are ordinarily known in the neighborhood shall be given to each. The roads in the county shall be classi- fied into main and district roads, and the district roads into first-class, second-class, etc., according to the amount of travel each receives. They shall have prepared a road map of the county upon a scale large enough to show all roads and bridges and the distance between intersections of roads and prominent points thereon, and the names of each road and