1392 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 216. Each Road Director shall be paid a salary of Four
Hundred ($400) Dollars per annum, payable out of the Road
Fund in quarterly installments. Said Directors shall be sub-
ject to removal by the Governor of the State for neglect or re-
fusal to comply with the duties of their office. If any of the
Directors shall die, resign or be removed his place shall be
filled by appointment by the remaining Directors within thirty
days after such vacancy shall have .occurred, and the one so
appointed shall be of the same political faith as his predecessor.
Two Directors shall always be of different political faith from
that of the other two.

SEC. 216-B. The Road Directors aforesaid shall during the
month of January, 1916, and biennially in the months of Janu-
ary thereafter, appoint as Allegany County Roads Engineer a
skillful and experienced man over twenty-five years of age, who
shall be a practical Civil Engineer, who shall give his entire
time to his office, for two years beginning on the first day of
February next succeeding the date of his appointment, or until
his successors is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed
from such office by the Road Directors upon the recommenda-
tion of the Grand Jury for Allegany County or for cause by
said Road Directors deemed sufficient, and, in such case, said
Road Directors shall immediately select his successor for the
unexpired term. The term of the Roads Engineer shall be two
years beginning on the first day of February next succeeding
his appointment. Before entering upon his duties the Roads
Engineer shall qualify by taking an oath before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Allegany County to faithfully perform the
duties of his office, and by giving a bond to the said Road Di-
rectors in the penal sum of Five Thousand ($5,000) Dollars
conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. The
term of office for the present Roads Engineer for Allegany
County shall expire on the first day of February, 1916.

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

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER. 788.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 37-A of
Article 91 of the Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of
Maryland, title "Surveyor and State Survey," sub-title