1076 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 857

written report, supplemented with plats as he may see fit, to
the County Commissioners of Baltimore County, which report
shall embrace a comprehensive plan of road and bridge work,
repair and construction in Baltimore County for the ensuing
fiscal road year, showing as closely as may be the several dis-
trict funds, and the general road and bridge fund and other
available funds and how they are to be expended, and what
proportion of each fund is set apart and reserved for salaries,
incidentals and contingencies, in detail. Notice of the filing of
said report embracing said comprehensive plan of road work
for the ensuing fiscal road year shall be published by the
County Commissioners in such newspaper or newspapers as
they may see fit, the first publication within one week of the
filing of said report and containing a notice that said County
Commissioners will hold not less than three meetings, naming
the time and place thereof, during said month of October for
the purpose of receiving and hearing recommendations, sug-
gestions or objections of any taxpayer of Baltimore County
in regard to any matter or thing contained in said plan. Said
County Commissioners at the conclusion of the last of said
meetings and on or before the first day of January thereafter,
shall have power to change, alter or modify said comprehensive
plan of said Roads Engineer, but said comprehensive plans as
submitted or as changed, altered, or modified by said County
Commissioners on or before said first day of January, shall be
binding on said County Commissioners during the ensuing fis-
cal road year and it shall be the duty of said Roads Engineer
to see that said plan is carried out in every particular.

SEC. 3. And lie it further enacted, That Section 595 of Ar-
ticle 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Baltimore County", sub-title "Roads and
Streets" be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read "as follows:

595. Whenever any owner of property in Baltimore County
shall have opened, laid out, graded, paved and drained in
accordance with the requirements of the Roads Engineer of
Baltimore County, any avenue or road for the public conveni-
ence and is willing to dedicate the same to public uses by a
good and sufficient deed duly recorded, the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County are authorized to accept the same
if, in their opinion, the same be necessary and convenient for
public use, and upon such acceptance, which shall be endorsed
upon and recorded with the deed, said avenue or road shall be
kept in good order and repair as other county roads; provided,
however, that previous to such acceptance said road shall not
be less than forty feet in width and duly and properly graded,
paved and drained in the judgment of the County Commission-