ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 839

State, before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel
County. The said Commissioners shall serve without pay and
be subject to removal at the pleasure of the County Commis-
sioners and the said County Commissioners shall have the
power to fill all vacancies caused by resignation, death, refusal
to act or otherwise.

The town of Eastport shall include all the land covered
and embraced in the Plat of Horn Point, now called East-
port, made by John Duvall, Esquire, the 30th day of Sep-
tember, 1868, and also the lots abutting on the west side of
First Street, laid down on the said plat, and the improve-
ments thereon.

That at the time of making the annual levy, the said County
Commissioners shall levy on the assessable property, including
real and personal, liable to taxation, within the limits of said
town, as above designated, a road tax of eighty-five cents on
the one hundred dollars; seventy-five cents of said road tax
shall be used for roads within said area, ten cents of said
road tax shall be set aside by the County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel County to be used to defray the expenses of
the Anne Arundel County Sanitary Commission, as authorized
by Chapter 676 of the Acts of 1927; and shall be retained by
said County Commissioners until paid to said Sanitary Com-
mission. Adjustment of said ten cents on the One Hundred
Dollars shall be made according to the assessable basis of each
Sanitary District for County taxation purposes, said expenses
shall not in any event exceed ten cents on the One Hundred
Dollars of said road tax; the balance, if there be any, shall be
paid by said County Commissioners to said Road Commis-
sioners of Eastport, which shall be used for the purposes here-
inafter set forth, which said road tax shall be in lieu of all
road taxes to be levied on said property and no other road tax
shall be levied on the same.

The said Road Commissioners shall have the power to
grade, fill and drain the streets and roads of said town, or
to do anything, which in their judgment will improve the said
streets and roads, and shall have absolute control over the
same. They shall have the power to make all necessary con-
tracts for the purposes set forth; but before any contract shall
be consummated, it shall be first referred to the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County for approval; and the
said County Commissioners shall keep a record of all contracts
made by said Road Commissioners; but in no event shall the
contracts exceed the amount realized from said levy of seventy-