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suit or action, or costs adjudged against it, shall be satisfied
and paid in due course by the County Commissioners of said
county out of the proper funds for such purpose.

339. Said Commission shall, by and with the advice and as-
sistance of the Baltimore County Roads Engineer, adopt such
system or systems for the care and repair of the public high-
ways, roads, bridges, streets and alleys of the county as may
be found most suitable for the several sections of the county
or the special roads thereof, provided that such system shall
require at least two-thirds of the road tax to be expended in
macadamizing the roads with stone or other hard material,
in those districts where the district fund amounts to more
than two hundred dollars per mile of road. It shall have pre-
pared by the County Surveyor an official road map of the
county, upon which shall be designated all county roads, and
the distance between intersections of roads or prominent points
thereon, which map shall be prepared within such reasonable
time as the moneys at the command of the Commission will
permit; whenever a new road shall be opened or accepted, or
an old road altered or closed, its location or the fact that it
has been altered or closed shall be properly designated on
said map. Said Commission may, at its discretion, have finger
boards or sign posts placed at road crossings or intersections
designating the distance to the nearest prominent point, and
may give suitable names to the county roads, and change the
same as they may see fit. It shall be the duty of said Commis-
sion to foster public interest in the public roads, and to this
end encourage the formation of road improvement associations,
and to hold not less than four public meetings in each year in
different parts of the county for the discussion of road matters;
reasonable notice of said meetings to be given by. advertise-
ment and such meetings to be attended by the Roads Engineer
and at least one member of the Commission.

340. The Highways Commission shall, within thirty days
after qualifying and organizing as such, and thereafter on or
before the first day of January, in each and every year, appoint
from each election district of the county, one person, a discreet
and trustworthy taxpayer, a resident and voter of the district
for which he is appointed, and who shall have, during the one
year prior to his appointment, resided ii said district and paid
taxes annually on property of at least an assessed valuation of
five hundred dollars, to act as road supervisor of that district,
until his successor is appointed and qualified. The road super-
visors so appointed shall serve for one year, and no supervisor
so appointed shall be removed from office except upon charges
of which he shall have due notice, and not until, after public