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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1371
tor, his employee or servant shall be permitted under this
section to make any arrests.
10. For the purpose of making and maintaining connec-
tions between any highways or the parts of any highway con-
structed or improved under the provisions of the preceding
sections, the State Roads Commission shall have the power to
build bridges; and to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or
otherwise (and to maintain when so acquired) any existing
bridges along, in the line of, or connected with any such
highway or highways.
11. The State Roads Commission is hereby authorized to
establish a stone-crushing plant, or plants, to produce road
material available most economically for water or other trans-
portation, and shall have the power to rent, purchase or con-
demn stone quarries, gravel, clay, sand and shell deposits with
rights of way thereto, and wharves and landings and switches
for shipping or receiving material, and storage places, and
to do all other things necessary and proper in connection with
the purchasing, producing, accumulating and distributing
such road material, including the hire and purchase of any
and all means of land water transportation for the same.
12. Whenever any railroad or railway company shall cross
said road it shall be required to keep its own road-bed and the
bed of the said highway in proper repair or else to have con-
structed an overhead or undergrade crossing subject to the
approval of the said commission or in conformity to the pro-
visions of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Public General
Laws as to crossings of railroad companies in regard to flag-
men and electric bells; and the tracks of such railroads or
railways shall be so constructed as to give absolutely safe and
easy approach to and crossing thereof; and in case of failure
so to construct, the said commission shall construct the same,
and upon certification of said construction and the cost there-
of, after due notification to such company to construct and its
failure so to do the cost thereof shall ex parte be rendered a
judgment against such company by the Circuit Court or any
justice of the peace in such counties before whom such pro-
ceedings shall have been instituted.
13. Whenever a State highway and any railroad or railway,
worked by steam or other power, cross each other at the same
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