ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 323
CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
463 and 471 of Chapter 4 of Article 3 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Baltimore County, " sub-
title "Roads and Streets, " as repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 4 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1920, and Section 469 as repealed and re-enacted by
chapter 165 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922,
providing for the appointment of the Roads Engineer of
Baltimore County by the County Commissioners of Balti-

more County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 463 and 471 of Chapter 4 of Article
3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled
"Baltimore County, " sub-title "Roads and Streets, " as repealed
and re-enacted by Chapter 4 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland of 1920, and Section 469 as repealed and re-
enacted by Chapter 165 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1922, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:

463. Said Commissioners shall have prepared by the
County Surveyor an official road map of the County, upon
which shall be designated all county roads and the distance be-
tween intersections of roads or prominent thereon; whenever
a new road shall be opened or accepted or an old road altered
or closed its location or the fact that it has been altered or
closed shall be properly designated on said map. Said Com-
missioners may, at their discretion, have fingerboards or sign
posts placed at road crossings or intersections designating the
distance to the nearest prominent point and may give suitable
names to the county roads and change the same as they may
see fit.

Said County Commissioners shall have the power to let out
the repair or maintenance of any road or portion of a road by
contract when, in the judgment of said Road Engineer, such
course is deemed advisable, in which case preference shall be
given, where practicable, to the owners of land directly inter-
ested in the proper care of such road or roads, and such work
shall be done under the supervision of said Roads Engineer.
Whenever any taxpayer of the county shall offer to haul stone