SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1229

"Roads," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

584.

Whenever any owner of any property in Allegany County shall
have paved, laid out or graded any avenue or road for the public
convenience and is willing to dedicate the same to public uses by
good and sufficient deed, duly recorded, the County Commissioners
are authorized to accept the same, if in the opinion of the County
Commissioners the same be convenient for public use, and upon
acceptance, the said avenue or road so dedicated shall be kept in
good order and repair by the County Commissioners; provided, how-
ever, that previous to such acceptance, said road shall be not less
than [thirty] forty feet in width and duly and properly graded
in the judgment of the County Commissioners. All such deeds shall
grant such avenues or roads to the County Commissioners of Al-
legany County, and shall be recorded among the Land Records of
said county.

585.

Whenever any road shall have been in public use for twenty years,
though the same may not have been condemned or granted as a
public highway, the County Commissioners, if they deem public
convenience so requires, may declare said road to be a public high-
way, and shall have full power to relocate and straighten the same,
in their discretion, and shall publish notices to that effect once a
week in one or more newspapers published in Allegany County; pro-
vided that said road shall not be less than [thirty] forty feet in
width, and such road so declared to be a public highway shall be
kept in good order and repair as other public roads.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 21, 1967.

CHAPTER 598
(House Bill 586)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 69 of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement
Volume and 1966 Supplement), title "Public Education," subtitle
"Chapter 5. County Board of Education," to provide that in
Frederick County the Board of Education must submit an annual
report to the Board of County Commissioners within ninety (90)
days after the close of its fiscal year.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 69 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Replacement Volume and 1966 Supplement), title "Public
Education," subtitle "Chapter 5. County Board of Education," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows: