Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-08-02
CHAPTER 52i. 1922.

AN ACT to repeal and re-eilact with
an endments Chapter Is of the Acts OF
the General Assembly of Maryland
passed at the special session thereof in
the year 1901, being Section lob of Mel
wins Code of Public Local Laws fol
Anne Arundel County, subtitle 'County
commissioners. and to repeal all acts
or parts of Acts Inconsistent Herewith
particularly Sections 1D1. 1g2 and lO3 OF
Article of the Code of Public Local
Laws OF Maryland, title Anne Arundel
county subtitle Roads being Sec
ton BIG. 81 and SIS of said Melvin's
Code. The said Section 153 providing
Tor reducing the number of County
commissioners from seven to three re-
laung to their duties and qualifications
and for road administration by them
and the appointment of a County Road
Engineer by them
Section 1. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly AZ of Maryland, That Chapter II
Maryland. passed at the Special Session
thereof in the year 1901, Section 153 of
Melvin's Code of Public Local Laws fol
Anne Arundel County, subtitle County
commissioners, be and the same il here
by repealed and re-enacted with amend
nents, so as to read as follows:
lo5. At the General Election to be held
on the nrst Tuesday after the first Mon
day In the year nineteen hundred and
twenty three. there shall be elected three
county Commissioners for Anne Arundel
county. who shall each be elected for q
term OF Tour years. and at the general
election for the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-six and every four years there
aIter, there shall be elected three County
commissioners for Anne Arundel County
salu commissioners shall meet at their Of
nee in the Court House at Annapolis for
the transaction of the duties of their office
at least two days i'm each week and on
sary.
person to be eligible for the office of
county Commissioner for Anne Arundel
county shall have actually resided in said
county Tor at least ten years, and shall
county. assessed for at least twenty fi,,,
hundred dollars and which said assess
nent snail have been upon the county rec
ords Tor at least twelve months prior to
ne, dne date OF election in the year of his can
alGacy. Each County Commissioner shalt
receive salary of twelve hundred dollars
year. without mileage or other extra
compensation of any kind.
Inc said County COmmi ssioners Of Anne
Arundel are authorized and empowered TO
control and regulate the public roads and
bridges IN said county: they shall sit as a
hoad Board once in each week and Of
tener III deemed by them necessary to the
public interests. for the considerations
and determination of matters relating 10
county roads and bridges. II shall be the
duty OF each of said County Commis-
sioners to make careful inspection of road
work in the several districts of the county
and to thoroughly familiarize himself wifi,
the same. The said board shall keen an.
accurate and systematic audit of the road
and bridge funds and accounts which shall
always be an open record of their Office
The said County Commissioners shall at
the time OF making the annual levy in said
county. levy upon the taxable property in
the several districts. thereof n road tax
not to exceed eighty cents on the hundred
dollars for each district and such said tax
shall be used for the repair and. mafntpn-I
ance OF public roads and bridges in the
same districts where levied and collected
and no other. All of the taxes herein
authorized shall be levied and collected as
are other county taxes and shall be dis
bursed by the County Commissioners
upon public road and bridges in Anne
Arundel County. and not otherwise.