MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 949

after Section 177B, as Sections 177F, 177G, 177H, 177i, 177j,
177K, 177L, 177M, 177N, 177o, 177p, 177Q, 177R, 177s, 177T,
177u, 177v, 177w, 177x, 177Y and 177z of said Article, and to
read as follows:

177p. "All contracts, agreements, grants and licenses made
or entered into by the County Commissioners of Montgomery
County shall be recorded in books kept for the purpose, or be
bound in book form, and shall always be open to the inspection
of the public; the original copies of all reports to said Commis-
sioners and other papers not recorded shall be preserved in the
office. Copies of such contracts, agreements, grants and li-
censes recorded as aforesaid, and of the records of the proceed-
ings of the Commissioners, when duly certified by the Clerk of
said Commissioners, shall be accepted as evidence in all the

courts of this State.

177a. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County
shall by and with the advice and assistance of the Montgom-
ery County Road Superintendent, adopt such system or sys-
tems for the care and repair of the public highways, roads and
bridges, streets and alleys of the county as may be found mos t
suitable for the several sections of the county or the special
roads thereof. The County Commissioners shall have prepared
an official road map of the county, which may be in sections of
one or more election districts upon which shall be designated
all county roads, which map shall be prepared within such rea-
sonable time as the moneys at the command of said Commis-
sioners 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 desig-
nated on said map. Said County Commissioners may, in their
discretion, have finger-boards or sign-posts placed at road cross-
ings or intersections designating the distance to the nearest
prominent point, and may give suitable names to county roads,
and change the same as they may see fit. They may cause
monuments erected or to be erected on the boundaries of high-
ways, to be kept up and renewed, so that the extent of such
highway boundaries may be publicly known, and erect and
establish new monuments as may, in their judgment, be re-
quired.

177H. All matters pertaining to and affecting the public
highways, roads, bridges, avenues, streets and alleys of the
county shall be under the general control and supervision of
the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, who are
hereby given power to enter into and make any and all con-
tracts for material, machinery, implements and equipment for
such public highways, and to employ or direct the employment