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Section 159. During the Session of the General Assembly
of Maryland at its January Session in the year nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-four, and at each regular session thereafter,
the Governor shall appoint two persons, being registered voters
of Charles County, who shall constitute the Board of Road
Commissioners of Charles County, and who shall assume the
duties of their office on the first day of June succeeding their
appointment, and to hold their said offices for the period of
two years, or until their successors are appointed and quali-
fied; the said appointments to be so made as to maintain at all
times equal representation of the two leading political parties
of the State, on said Board of Road Commissioners of Charles
County. And in event of a vacancy in said Board of Road
Commissioners of Charles County, the Governor shall appoint
a person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies in said
Board, the said appointments to fill such vacancy or vacancies
to be so made as to maintain at all times equal representation
of the two leading political parties of the State on said Board
of Road Commissioners of Charles County.

Section 160. Each Road Commissioner provided for by
this Act shall receive two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per
annum, payable quarterly, said sums to be paid by the Treas-
urer of Charles County, upon the order of the Board of Road
Commissioners of Charles County, out of the general fund
provided to be levied for the roads and bridges of Charles
County.

Section 160-A. Whenever the Board of Road Commis-
sioners of Charles County shall find it necessary to open an
outlet or water-course through private property in said County,
to secure the proper drainage of any public road therein, they
shall forthwith notify the owner or owners of said land, and
if such owner or owners and said Board of Road Commission-
ers shall agree upon the value and price to be paid for same,
then such consent and agreement shall be entered upon the
books of the Board of Road Commissioners, and such outlet
or water-course shall be opened; but, if the owner or owners
and the Board of Road Commissioners of Charles County shall
fail to agree as aforesaid, then the said Board of Road Com-
missioners shall have such power and authority to condemn the
land for such outlet or water-course in the manner as is now
or may be hereafter conferred by the Code of Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland to the County Commissioners
for the condemning of land for the opening of public roads.