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levied shall simply be designated, "For Construction,
reconstruction and maintenance of County roads, bridges,
drains, water courses, public landings, [disposal areas,]
culverts, ferries, curbs and gutters, and purchasing and
renting of equipment, land and buildings in connection
therewith", but no part thereof shall be earmarked by
said County Commissioners for specific purposes, all such
authority to so earmark being vested in the County Roads
Board. All monies so levied and received shall be
deposited by the County Treasurer in a special fund for
that purpose and paid out of that fund by the County
Treasurer on requisition of the County Roads Board. Any
unexpended surplus remaining in the account at the end of
any year may be carried over and used by the County Roads
Board in future years to carry out the purposes of this
sub—title or may be used on account of the costs of next
year's roads program. Title to any such land, buildings,
or equipment purchased by the County Commissioners of
Queen Anne's County or by the County Roads Board for
Queen Anne's County shall be and remain in the County
Commissioners of Queen Anne's County, Maryland.

372.

(a) The County Roads Board shall within sixty (60)
days after the effective date of the taking over of the
construction, reconstruction and maintenance of the
County Roads in Queen Anne's County, appoint some
competent person as County Roads Engineer with the
qualifications set out. in Article 89B, Section 222 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1957
Edition). The first term of office of the County Roads
Engineer shall run until June 30, 1963; and succeeding
terms thereafter shall run for four (4) years accounting
from the end of the previous term. He shall be subject
to dismissal by the County Roads Board during his term
for proper cause. He shall be under and subject to the
authority of the County Roads Board and shall have charge
of making surface plats, profiles and specifications for
the grading, drainage maintenance, repair and
reconstruction of the public roads, bridges, drains,
water courses, public landings, [disposal areas,]
culverts, ferries, curbing and guttering in the County
and also shall do or supervise the doing of all necessary
engineering and other work in connection therewith. He
shall receive such salary and payable in such manner as
the County Roads Board shall determine.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
376(e) of the Public Local Laws of Queen Anne's County
being Article 18 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition, as amended by Chapter 147 of the
Acts of 1971) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: