1500 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 524

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 13 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the Special Session thereof in the year
1901, being Section 153 of Melvin's Code of Public Local Laws
for Anne Arundel County, sub-title "County Commissioners,"
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

153. At the General Election to be held on the first Tues-
day after the first Monday in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, there shall be elected three County Commission-
ers for Anne Arundel County, who shall each be elected for a
term of four years, and at the general elecion for the year nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six and everv four vears thereafter.

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there shall be elected three County Commissioners for Anne
Arundel County. Said Commissioners shall meet at their
office in the Court House at Annapolis for the transaction of
the duties of thier office at least two days in each week and on
such other da vs as thev mav deem necessarv.

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A person to be eligible to the office of County Commissioner
for Anne Arundel County shall have actually resided in said
county for at least ten years, and shall be a taxpayer upon real
estate in said county, assessed for at least twenty-five hundred
dollars and which said assessment shall have been upon the
county records for at least twelve months prior to the date of
election in the year of his candidacy. Each County Commis-
sioner shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars a year,
without mileage or other extra compensation of any kind.

The said County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County
are authorized and empowered to control and regulate the
public roads and bridges in said county; they shall sit as a
Road Board once . in each week, and oftener if deemed by
them necessary to the public interests, for the considerations
and determination of matters relating- to county roads and
bridges. It shall be the duty of each of said County Commis-
sioners to make careful inspection of road work in the several
districts of the county and to thoroughly familiarize himself
with the same. The said board shall keep an accurate and
systematic audit of the road and bridge funds and accounts
which shall always be an open record of their office.

The said County Commissioners shall, at the time of mak-
ink the annual levy in said county, levy upon the taxable
property in the several districts thereof a road tax not to ex-
ceed eighty cents on the hundred dollars for each district and