ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 139
effect of municipal ordinances regularly adopted by authority
of the Legislature of the State of Maryland. The police, magis-
trates and constables of the said County shall be charged with
the duty of enforcing all such rules and regulations; and, in
addition, to other methods of enforcing all of such rules and
regulations, the said County Commissioners shall have the right
to apply to the Courts of Equity of the State for an injunction
to enforce compliance therewith, in which case it shall not be
necessary to make other jurisdictional averment than the
threatened breach of such rules or regulations, and the said
Courts shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctions on such
allegations being made. A certified copy of such rules and reg-
ulations shall be deemed the proper evidence of the same in
any of the Courts of this State.
342-D. Any person or persons placing an obstruction upon
any of the public highways, roads, bridges, streets, avenues,
lanes or alleys of Washington 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 manner, or any person or corporation, its agents or em-
ployees, 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 Justice of the Peace
exercising criminal jurisdiction in Washington County shall
be fined in an amount not less than One Dollar ($1. 00) nor
more than Fifty Dollars ($50. 00) for each offence; 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 col-
lected under this section shall be paid into the General Road
and Bridge Fund of the County.
342-E. That, conditional upon his acceptance of the po-
sition, Edgar T. Hayman, of Washington County, who is a
graduate in Civil Engineering with more than ten years ex-
perience in responsible charge of important road and bridge
building, and who is at present County Road Superintendent
of Washington County, be and he is hereby constituted and
appointed Road Engineer of Washington County, to hold office
from the date of the passage of this Act until removed for cause
as hereinafter provided, or until he voluntarily relinquishes
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