ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 885

day in December in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four,
appoint some competent person, who shall have sufficient knowl-
edge and experience, in the estimation and judgment of the
Chairman of the State Roads Commission and Director of Pub-
lic Works to enable him to discharge properly the duties of
grading, draining, maintaining, repairing and reconstructing
the public roads and bridges of said County, County Road
Superintendent for Somerset County, at a salary not to exceed
one thousand five hundred dollars ($1, 500) a year, payable
monthly; and the said county road superintendent shall hold his
office and be paid for his services from the first day of January
next succeeding his appointment for one year, unless sooner re-
moved, as hereinafter provided.

229. The said county road superintendent shall be subject
to removal from office at all times by the said Chairman of the
State Roads Commission and Director of Public Works, in his
discretion, and the said county road superintendent shall not be
entitled to receive any salary from the date of such removal.

230. The County Road Superintendent thus appointed,
before he enters upon the duties of his said office, shall take an
oath before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset County,
that he will faithfully perform the duties of the same, and he
shall also execute a bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty
of fifteen hundred dollars ($1, 500) for the faithful perform-
ance of his duty as County Road Superintendent for Somerset
County.

231. The County Road Superintendent shall be a taxpayer
and voter in Somerset County during the term of his office,
and shall have and take charge of all public roads and
bridges in Somerset County, and shall make all specifications
for the building of new roads and bridges, and shall see that no
obstruction, hindrance, or injury is or shall be permitted upon
any road or bridge under his supervision as aforesaid. It shall
be his duty at all times to keep all the roads and bridges in
Somerset County in reasonable repair and in good and safe
condition, and to that end he shall employ such help, teams and
implements and purchase such material as he may deem neces-
sary for the working, repairing and constructing of said roads
and bridges, to be paid for out of the levy made therefor as
aforesaid by the County Commissioners of Somerset County,
and he shall have charge and control of all teams, carts, wagons
and other machinery and implements which may be purchased,
and all materials which may be purchased for the use of said