1572 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 692

herein, the County Commissioners from the Fourth and Fifth
Commissioner Districts shall in addition to their salary as
County Commissioners, receive the sum of Twelve Hundred
Dollars ($1,200) per annum. If either of the County Com-
missioners from the Fourth or the Fifth Commissioner Dis-
tricts shall devote his entire time to the performance of his
duties as County Commissioner and under this Act such Com-
missioner, in addition to the salary received by him as County
Commissioner, shall receive the further sum of $1,800 per
annum, provided however, that in such case the $1,800 per
annum shall include the $1,200.00 additional compensation
to be received for maintaining daily office hours. The attorney
to the Board of County Commissioners shall, in addition to
the salary paid him as attorney to the Board, receive for serv-
ices performed by him under the provisions of this Act, the
further sum of $1,000 per annum. All salaries paid under the
provisions of this Act shall be charged to the Administrative
Fund created under the provisions of Section 6 of this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That whenever in its
judgment, the public health, safety or comfort requires it, the
Board of County Commissioners is hereby authorized and em-
powered to grade, construct, reconstruct, pave or otherwise
improve any street, side-walk, alley or public highway or parts
thereof at such time and to such extent and of such materials
and in such manner as they shall by ordinance provide. The
total cost of the construction of gutters and side-walks shall be
charged as a benefit against the abutting property found to be
specially benefited as hereinafter provided. The total cost of
the construction, paving or other permanent improvement of
roads or highways, shall be assessed against the abutting prop-
erty found to be specially benefited as hereinafter provided,
and provided further that such property is classified as agri-
cultural or as undeveloped in accordance with the provisions
of Section 11, of this Act, but in the event that the abutting
property found to be specially benefited is classified as resi-
dential, whether improved or unimproved or as industrial in
accordance with the provisions of said Section 11 of this Act,
then one-half of the total costs of the construction, paving, or
other permanent improvement, of roads or highways shall be as-
sessed against such property so benefited and so classified and
the other half shall be paid from District-wide taxation or
the proceeds of the sale of District-wide bonds as may be deter-
mined by said Board of County Commissioners, and the total