768 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and designated as the Improved Road System Fund, and in ad-
dition thereto there shall be deposited to the account of said
fund all moneys payable to Baltimore County by the State of
Maryland for automobile licenses, and all fines and forfeitures
payable to Baltimore County, including all fines imposed for
the violation of the liquor or Sunday laws of said County, pay-
able to said County Commissioners, and also all taxes collected
on stocks and bonds not apportioned or assessed to any district,
and now known as the "unapportioned fund,'' and from said
fund said County Commissioners shall annually set apart such
sum as may in their opinion be necessary for the improvement
or repair of such bridges in the County as in their judgment
should be improve or repaired from such fund.

343. Any person placing any obstruction upon any of the
public highways, roads, bridges, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys
of Baltimore County, or interfering with or obstructing the side
ditches or drains thereof, or encroaching upon the same with
fences or other obstructions, or any person or corporation,
its agents or employes, exercising the business of a common
carrier, permitting his or its vehicles, or steam or other engines
or cars, to obstruct any crossing for a longer period than ten
minutes at any one time, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be liable to arrest and prosecution at the instance of any
road official, his or their representatives, or at the instance
of any taxpayer of the County, and upon conviction by any jus-
tice of the peace exercising criminal jurisdiction in Baltimore
County, shall be fined in an amount not less than one dollar
nor more than fifty dollars for each offense; any person arrested
under this Section shall have the right to elect that his case be
sent to the Circuit Court for trial. All fines collected under this
Section shall be paid into the Improved Road System Fund of
the County. This provision shall not prevent the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County from adopting other and fur-
ther regulations in respect to the subject matter of this Section
as prescribed by the next preceding Section of this Act.

345. The Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall inspect
the roads and bridges in each district as often as may be
necessary to thoroughly familiarize himself with the condition
and requirements of the County generally, and recommend to
the road supervisors of the respective districts and to the
County Commissioners such repairs and improvements as he
may think advisable; he shall make such general or special ex-
amination of any road or bridge as may be required by the said