16 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 4

County Commissioners of Baltimore County and may hold
such other meetings as the proper discharge of their duties
may require. They shall keep a journal of proceedings in
. which shall be entered all their proceedings in detail, the cor-
rectness of the same to be attested each week by the president
and the chief clerk and auditor of said Board of County
Commissioners. They shall also keep books showing in de-
tail the expenditures of moneys in each election district of
the county on account of the roads and bridges thereof and
from what fund such expenditures were made, and by which
books the condition of the General Road and Bridge Fund
and the several district funds may be readily seen at any
time, all of which said books and records shall lie open to the
inspection of any taxpayer of the county. They shall an-
nually compile statistics relating to the public roads of Balti-
more County and cause the same to be printed or published
in one or more of the county newspapers. All maps, plans
and statistics collected and compiled under their direction
shall he preserved-in their office. All contracts, agreements,
grants and licenses made or entered into by the Commission-
ers shall be recorded in books kept for that purpose, which
shall always be open to the inspection of the public; the
original copies of all reports to the Commissioners and other
papers not recorded shall be preserved in the office. Copies
of such contracts, agreements, grants and licenses recorded as
aforesaid and of the records of the proceedings of said County
Commissioners, when duly certified by the chief clerk and
auditor of said Commissioners, shall be accepted as evidence
in all the Courts of this State. Said County Commissioners
shall make all necessary rules and regulations, which shall,
have the force and effect of law, governing the time and
method of paying for labor engaged on the county roads, the
making up of the pay roll by the Roads Engineer, the books
of account to be kept by him and said Commissioners may by
their said rules and regulations require any person employed
by said Roads Engineer to give bond conditioned upon the
faithful discharge of his duties in such penalty as may be
prescribed therein, and the further power to alter, repeal,
modify and change said rules and regulations as they may
see fit. All books and accounts in the office of the Roads
Engineer and in the office of the County Commissioners shall
be open to inspection by any taxpayer of the county.