The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-02-15
Baltimore County Road system.


nine cents on the hundred dollars of asses.
sable property in Baltimore county, for the
benefit of roads and bridges.
| Section 2. Requires that the fund raised
| from this tax shall be used solely for the
purpose named and for no other purpose.
| Section g. Directs the County Commits,
sioners to appoint special Commissioner
of Roads, Bridges and Public Buildings, OF
known capacity and skill, who shall be liable
to removal only upon grounds Of incapacity,
neglect or misconduct, and who shall be re-
| quired to devote his entire time to the duties
Of his Office, and be allowed salary not
over So, 500 per annum.
Section 1. Prescribes the duties in detail
of the Road Commissioner in keeping the
accounts OF roads, bridges and buildings
in regulating the time and mode of repair
| ing roads by supervisors, and personally in.
| specting the same: in supervising the con.
struction and repairs of bridges, public build.
ings, etc.
Section 5. Provides that the County Com
| missioners on or before the 10Th day of April
next shall divide the election districts of the
county into not less than t,co nor more than
four road districts.
| Section &. Authorizes the Road Commits.
sioner, on or before the lst of May, to OPP
point, subject to the approval or rejection
by the County Commissioners, n supervisor
for each road distrc who shall be remoya.
BILE only upon grounds of incapacity or mis-.
conduct III office, after being heard by the
County Commissioners.
| Section :. Compels the Road Supervisors
| to personally superintend the repairs of all
roads and bridges in their respective dis,
tricts, and allows them compensation not
to exceed three dollars a day, and requires
them to procure hands and teams from tax.
payers If they can be so obtained, at IA cs
TO be fixed by The Road Commissioner and
approved by the County Commissioners.
Section s. Authorizes the County Com.
missioncrs to furnish supervisors at public
cost all plows aud necessary tools and i'm.
| plcmcnis.
certificates of indebtedness for services rcn,
! dered by taxpayers upon roads, etc, the
same 10 he receivable by tax collectors in
| payment of county taxes, when properly
endorsed
| Section 10, Directs that the County Con-,
! m'ssioners may pledge the credit of the
county. when required, in anticipation OF
payments of taxes to procure funds to
promptly meet the drafts of supervisors for
work done upon roads.
Section II Requires accurate monthly
reports of accounts to be returned by super
visors to be kept and recorded by the Road
| Commissioners and the endorsement Of the
latter upon all drafts of supervisors for
moneys.
Section II. Requires supervisors to raise
the beds Of roads i'll proportions of nine
inches in the centre to every thirty feet Of
width, with water courses upon the sides.
Section Is. Compels supervisors to widen
the public roads to the extent of thirty fee,
as speedily as circumstances require, con
sis,ent with the interests of landowners
buildings now erected to remain, bu, no new
ones to be built hereafter upon the line o
road; and to have surveys of roads made
when necessary at the cost of the county.
Section II. Supervisors to withhold re
pairs from old roads not essential to public
interest, parties aggrieved to have the RICH
of appeal to the Commissioners.
Section Is. All new roads hereafter open
ed to be thirty feet wide, and to be laie
down upon the easiest practical grades.
Section l6. Authorizes the County Com
missioners in the opening of new roads, OF
reconstruction of old ones, to advertise fo
proposals and put them ont upon contracts
in their discretion.
Section II. Requires mi.annual publ
cations Of expenditures upon roads ant
bridges by the Road Commissioner in two
public papers of the county.
Section IS Prescribes TINT where parie
living upon any road desire to permanent,
improve such public road and may subscribe
money for that purpose, the Comfy Com
missioners, on behalf of the county, shal
furnish like amount, the same to be ex
pended by the Supervisor for the specia
benefit Of said road.
Section 10. Authorizes the Commission
ers of the county to subscribe sum equiya
lent to the principal of the average annua
amount expended by the county for the re
pairs of any county road to the capita
stock of any company proposing to turnpike
sEeh road after such company shall be organ
lied and three. hiths qi the stock subscribed
and two-ftths nre paid in, upon provision
that the county shall forever be relieved O
all expense of the repairs of such road.
Section 20. Provides that the Count
Commissioners shall levy special tax upo
the property Of any road dialrilt Cor its CIV,
benefit in addition to its share of the gen
eral fund, in the repairs Of its roads when
ever the people of said district may so OK
press their wishes through public election
70 be held in said district and for whic
election provision is made. The said speco
tax to be distributed under the eontrol c
Commissioners chosen by the people of SAT
district.
Section 81 Authorizes the County Com
missioners to make the necessary rules an
, regulations to carry the law into full effect