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duties or the exercise of any powers incident to the conduct
of the Department of Public Works as may seem to said Chief
Engineer to be necessary and proper, and, whenever it seems
advisable, from time to time to transfer duties and powers
from one sub-department to another sub-department, and from
time to time to re transfer the same, in whole or in part.

544B. The Chief Engineer of Baltimore County shall make
a detailed annual report to the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County of the work done by the Department of
Public Works and the several sub-departments thereof. He
shall make such recommendations to the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County as he deems advisable in connec-
tion with the work of the Department of Public Works or any
sub-department thereof, and shall submit a written report,
with such other data as he may deem necessary, of all work to
be undertaken by the Department of Public Works and the
several sub-departments thereof for the ensuing fiscal year.
The Chief Engineer shall furnish such other data as the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County from time to time
may request. He shall file all of said reports with the Chief
Clerk of the County Commissioners; the first reports before
the first day of January, 1944, the second on or before the
fifteenth day of October, 1944, and thereafter on the fifteenth
day of October in each and every year. All provisions of law
for the making of reports by various sub-departments of the
Department of Public Works to the County Commissioners
shall be construed to require instead the making of such re-
ports to the Chief Engineer of Baltimore County who may
adopt said reports, in whole or in part, in his report to the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, and as to such
said sub-departments of the Department of Public Works that
are not now required by law to make an annual report to the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, the Chief Engi-
neer of Baltimore County is authorized and empowered to
require such sub-departments to furnish him such information
and data as he may desire in connection with the preparation
of his annual report, or for any other purpose connected with
or incident to the Department of Public Works. The County
Commissioners of Baltimore County shall publish such por-
tion of the reports or condensed statements thereof, as to the
entire Department of Public Works or any sub-department
thereof, as it may deem proper and necessary for the best in-
terests of the citizens of Baltimore County, but nothing herein
contained shall be construed to repeal the requirements of any
statute as to publication of notices or reports.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.