The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-23
CHAPTER NO. 3l9.

AN ACT to add certain sections to Article
y of the Code OF Public Local Laws of the
State OF Maryland, entitled Garrett
County" sub title Roads" to follow
Section zoe and to be known as Sections
2O6A, 206B. 2O6C, 206D. 2O6E, 2O6F, 206G and
206H, relating to the requirement by the
County Commissioners of Garrett County
of additional road ways along and
adjacent to the public roads III said
county, and providing for the free pas
sage and travel of the public when the
said public roads are or have been
INSTRUCTED by snow drifts.
Section 206A. The County Commissioners
of Garrett County shall have power and
authority to acquire as hereinafter provid-
ed in this act an additional road way, not
exceeding twenty feet in width along and
adjacent to the public roads in said county
where the said road or parts of roads have
become or are subject to annual distractions
from snow drifts ana prevents the passage
and travel of the public. Whenever any
citizen of said Garrett County intends to
petition the County commissioners of said
county for the opening Of any roads subject
| to Instructions as aforesaid. and ii is deSlr
able and practicable that detOur adjacent
to said road so INSTRUCTED and TO permit the
free passage and travel of the public using
the same be made, he shall give at least
thirty days notice thereof in some news
paper published in Garrett County. Counter
petitions may be presented to the County
commissioners, and when they are, the
County Commissioners shall take into con-
sderatiOn the reasons contained in the
counter petition and such other testimony
as may be given before them, and deter
mine the case as in their opinion shall seem
proper. All applications for opening roads
herein mentioned shall be by petition to the
County Commissioners.
Section 2OGB. Whenever the County Com
misSiOnerS shall decide that it is eXpedien
that road be opened as provided in the
| preceding section they may contract with
| the owner or owners of the land through
which said road is intended to run for the
right of way over the land necessary for
said road, if the said owners thereof be COM
! petent to contract, and the said County Com
| misSiOnerS shall obtain a deed therefor and
| the same shall thencefOrth be the property
| of the county, in the same manner to the
same extent as other county roads and no
! further. subject to the public right of way
| over the same. And whenever the County
| Commissioners shall deem it eXpedient that
examiners shall be appointed to view the
ground for the purpose Of opening such
| roads they shall appoint three persons as
examiners who shah be freeholders OF the
| county and not interested in or holding
! lands through which the said road is propos-
| ed to be opened, or they may proceed to
condemn the land which may be necessary
| for the purpose under the provisions OF
! Sections 53g to 404 both inclusive. OF Art. q
of the Code OF Public General Laws OF Mary
| land.
Section pose. The said examiners before
| they proceed to act as such shall take an
| oath to execute the trust repoSed in them
under the Commission executed by the said
! County Commissioners to them, faithfully
and without favor, affection or Partially,
which said oath shall be endorsed on the
| commission and returned Herewith.
| Section 206D. The said examiners CT a
majority of them after giving thirty days
notice shall in the same manner as preScrib-
ed by sections "a, 95 96 and q of Art. 25 OF the
! Code Of Public General Laws of Maryland
/ proceed to examine and determine whether
! the public convenience requires that the
said road shall be 50 opened.
Section 2O6E. All roads so opened under
/ the provisions Of this chapter shall be at