292                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 203

Baltimore City, certifying to the precise condition, at that time, in
point of repair in their opinion, of all such roads, and portions of
roads, and of all such bridges, and thereafter, at regular intervals
of six months, there shall be a similar inspection by said officers of
all such roads, and portions of roads, and of all such bridges, and
immediately after such inspection, said engineers shall, in like
manner, draw up a similar memorandum, in writing, duplicates
whereof shall be filed and kept in like manner as aforesaid, certifying
in precise terms to the physical and pecuniary extent, to which, in
their opinion, such roads and portions of roads, and such bridges shall
have been injured by reason of the extra wear and tear imposed upon
them since the next preceding inspection, by such teaming or hauling,
and, in said memorandum, the pecuniary extent of said injury shall
be computed and set forth in dollars and cents, and, as soon as said
memorandum shall be signed by said engineers, and filed in duplicate
as aforesaid, the amount of the pecuniary injury, so certified, shall
at once become due and payable by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore out of any funds which may be available to said City for
said purpose to the treasurer of the county affected, as a fund for
the repair of such injury. In the event of disagreement between
said engineers as to any matter devolved upon them by the terms of
this section of this Act, all the provisions of the next preceding sec-
tion of this Act, relative to disagreement between said officers as to
the diversion, alteration, closure or destruction of highways or
bridges, shall likewise be applicable to said disagreement under this
section. Said engineers shall have plenary power to consider and
decide all questions arising in the discharge of their duties under
this section, and shall have the same power to summon and require
the attendance of witnesses, in connection with their inquiries under
this section, and to have them sworn, as is provided for in the next
preceding section of this Act. In the event of any arbitration pro-
ceedings under this section, all costs and expenses incurred in con-
nection therewith shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

The powers and duties of the Director of Public Works of Balti-
more City under this section may, at any time, with the consent of
the Mayor of Baltimore-, be delegated by him to one of his assistant
engineers, or such powers may be exercised and duties performed
by some third party to be named by the municipal agency charged
with the duty of carrying the work under this Act into execution.
The powers conferred and the duties imposed by this section upon
the Roads Engineer of any county affected by the provisions of this
section may at any time, with the consent of the County Commis-
sioners of such county, be delegated by him to one of his assistant
engineers, or, if there be no Roads Engineer of said county, it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners of said county to appoint
some person, preferably an engineer resident in said county, to
exercise such powers and to perform such duties.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That at least thirty days
prior to the beginning of construction work in any county affected
by the provisions of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall file in the office of the County Commissioners of such
county one or more maps showing the existing public roads and
highways traversing the property acquired or to be acquired under
this Act, which are to be closed, altered, diverted or relocated, in
whole or in part, or the grades thereof changed; and also to show