382 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 166

published in Baltimore County. On or before the first day of
December in each year said Baltimore County Roads Engineer
shall submit a written report, supplemented with plats as he
may see fit, to the County Commissioners of Baltimore Coun-
ty, which report shall embrace a comprehensive plan of road
and bridge work, repair and construction in Baltimore County
for the ensuing fiscal road year, showing as closely as may be
the several district funds, and the general road and bridge fund
and other available funds and how they are to be expended and
on what roads and bridges, naming them, and the character in
detail of the repairs and new construction, and the estimated
cost of each item, and what proportion of the road money is
for new construction, and what proportion is for maintenance
and repairs, and what proportion of each fund is set apart and
reserved for salaries, incidentals and contingencies, in detail.
Notice of the filing of said report embracing said comprehen-
sive plan of road work for the ensuing fiscal road year shall be
published by the County Commissioners in such newspaper
or newspapers as they may see fit, the first publication within
one week of the filing of said report and containing a notice
that said County Commissioners will hold not less than three
meetings, naming the time and place thereof, during said
month of December for the purpose of receiving and hearing
recommendations, suggestions or objections of any tax payer
of Baltimore County in regard to any matter or thing contained
in said plan. Said County Commissioners at the conclusion of
the last of said meetings and on or before the first day of
January thereafter, shall have power to change, alter or mod-
ify said comprehensive plan of said Roads Engineer, but said
comprehensive plan as submitted or as changed, altered or
modified by said County Commissioners on or before said first
day of January, shall be binding on said County Commission-
ers during the ensuing fiscal road year and it shall be the duty
of said Roads Engineer to see that said plan is carried out in
every particular.

Approved April 13th, 1022.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
142, 144, 146, 149, 150, 151, 154 and 155 of Offutt's Code
of Public Local Laws of Baltimore County (1916) and