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468. 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 in any other man-
ner ; or any person or corporation, its agents or employees,
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 he 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 justice of the peace
exercising criminal jurisdiction in Baltimore County shall be
fined in any 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 General Road and Bridge Fund of the-
county.

469. The Governor of the State of Maryland shall, after
the passage ofc this Act. appoint as Baltimore County Roads
Engineer a man having the degree of civil engineer and ex-
perienced in bridge and road building. The Baltimore County
Roads Engineer shall be directly answerable to the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County for the faithful and
efficient discharge of his duties and it shall be the duty of
said County Commissioners to remove him from office and he
shall be removable from office by them for neglect of dirty.
inefficiency, dishonesty and for any other cause, matter or
thing whatsoever which in the opinion of said County Com-
missioners necessitates his removal for the better, moer efficient:
or more economical administration of county affairs relating
to roads. "But the Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall
not be removable from his office by the County Commissioners
except after written charges preferred against him and an
opportunity to be heard in his defense afforded him. Hear-
ings in regard to removal of the Roads Engineer from office
shall be public, and there shall be no appeal from the de-
cisions of the County Commissioners thereon." Whenever a
vacancy exists in the office of the Roads Engineer the Gov-
ernor of Maryland shall immediately fill the same.