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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 said courts shall have
jurisdiction to grant such injunction on such allegations being
made. A certified copy of any of such rules and regulations
shall be deemed proper evidence of the same in any of the
courts of this State.

469. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
shall, after the passage of this Act, annually on or before the
first day of January, appoint as Baltimore County Roads Engi-
neer a man having the degree of civil engineer and experience
in bridge and road building, or a man who has had at least ten
years' experience in road and bridge building, in a supervisory
and executive capacity, in charge of important road and bridge
work. The Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall be directly
answerable to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
for the faithful and efficient discharge of his duties and it shall
be the duty of said County Commissioners to remove him from

office and he shall be removable from office by them for neglect
of duty, inefficiency, dishonesty and for any other cause, matter
or thing whatsoever which in the opinion of said County Com-
missioners necessitates his removal for the better, more efficient
or more economical administration of county affairs relating to
roads. But the Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall not be
removable from his office by the County Commissioners except
after written charges preferred against him and an opportunity
to be heard in his defense afforded him. Hearings in regard to
removal of the Roads Engineer from office shall be public, and
there shall be no appeal from the decisions of the County Com-
missioners thereon. Whenever a vacancy exists in the office of
the Roads Engineer, the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County shall immediately fill the same.

The Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall be responsible
to the County Commissioners for the proper expenditure of all
money collected, by levy or otherwise, for county road and
bridge purposes. He shall have power to employ so many and
such mechanics and laborers as he may think necessary for the
proper construction, care and maintenance of the county roads
and fix the wages thereof. He shall have power to appoint so
many and such assistants, inspectors, foremen and clerks as he
may think necessary and to fix their salaries, subject to the