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ARTICLE XXV.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

CHAPTER 664.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Section one of Article twenty-
five of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland, title "County Commisioners," subtitle "General
Provisions," fixing the salary of the Attorney to the Board of
County Commissioners for Cecil county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section one of Article twenty-five of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, title "County
Commissioners," subtitle "General Provisions," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

1. The County Commissioners of each county in this State
are declared to be a corporation and shall have full power to
appoint road supervisors, collectors of taxes, trustees of the
poor, a clerk to their board, and all other officers, agents and
servants required for county purpose not otherwise provided
for by law or by the constitution, and they shall have charge
of and control over the property owned by the county, and over
county roads and bridges, and whenever in their opinion the
public interests require or will be thereby advanced, may com-
mit the whole matter of grading and constructing public roads
and the repairs thereof, and the construction and repairs of
public bridges to the charge of competent and scientifically
educated civil engineers, who shall direct and manage all such
public works under the immediate control of said County
Commissioners, and who shall hold office for such time, with
such salary, under such bond and subject to such regulations
as may be directed by the said County Commissioners from
time to time, and calculated to secure competent officers and a
faithful discharge of duty; provided that the person appointed
to act as attorney for the County Commissioners in Cecil
county, under the provisions of this section shall receive the
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum in full com-
pensation for all services rendered by him as such attorney to
said Board of Commissioners for Cecil county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.