730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 660

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Section 574 of
Article 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Streets", be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,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:

574. Said County Commissioners shall meet on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday in each week at the office of the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County and may hold
such other, meetings as the proper discharge of their duties
may require. They shall keep a journal of proceedings in
which shall be entered all their proceedings in detail, the
correctness of the same to be attested each week by the presi-
dent and Secretary of said Board of County Commissioners.
They shall also keep books showing in detail the expendi-
tures of moneys in each election district of the county on
account of the roads and bridges thereof and from what
fund such expenditures were made, and by which books
the condition of the General Road and Bridge Fund and
the several district funds may be readily seen at any time,
all of which said books and records shall be open to the
inspection of any taxpayer of the county. They shall annually
compile statistics relating to the public roads of Baltimore
County and cause the same to be printed or published in one
or more of the county newspapers. All maps, plans and
statistics collected and compiled under their direction shall be
preserved in their office. All contracts, agreements, grants
and licenses made or entered into by the Commissioners shall
be recorded in books kept for that purpose, which shall always
be open to the inspection of the public; the original copies
of all reports to the Commissioners and other papers not
recorded shall be preserved in the office. Copies of such
contracts, agreements, grants and licenses recorded as afore-
said and of the records of the proceedings of said County
Commissioners, when duly certified by the secretary of said
Commissioners shall be accepted as evidence in all the courts
of this State. Said County Commissioners shall make all
necessary rules and regulations, which shall have the force
and effect of law, governing the time and method of pay-
ing for labor engaged on the county roads, the making up
of the payroll by the Roads Engineer, the books of account
to be kept by him and said Commissioners may by their said
rules and regulations require any person employed by said
Roads Engineer to give bond. conditioned upon the faithful
discharge of his duties in such penalty as may be prescribed
therein, and the further power to alter, repeal, modify and
change said rules and regulations as they may see fit. All
books and accounts in the office of the Roads Engineer and