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carry out the provisions of this law shall be paid out of the funds of the county on the order of the Commissioners ; and all bills of costs for hire of persons or teams, or for other expenses incurred in repairing the public roads, when approved bv the County Commissioners by endorsement thereon, shall be receivable for the party to whom due, or his assignees in writing, in payment of county tax- es due by the lawful holders thereof.	Bills paid to be approved.
And be it further enacted, That the several super- visors shall make general repairs of the roads with- in their districts at least twice in each year, once prior to the fifteenth of May and once prior to the fifteenth of September ; and the County Commis-	General repairs.
sioners shall fix and regulate, from time to time, the prices to be paid by supervisors for the hire of necessary teams and laborers to execute any work under this law.	Commission- ers to fix prices
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several supervisors shall report semi-annually, in Jane and November, to the County Commissioners, the state of the roads within their districts, and the expenses by them incurred under this law, the amount of money paid out by them in construct- ing and repairing roads, with the vouchers	Report semi- annually.
for the same, that each supervisor shall be en- titled to receive an annual salary of not exceeding three dollars per clay for each day he is actually employed on the roads for the said Commissioners, and shall be wholly exempt, during his time of	Annual salary
service, from militia duty and from service on ju- ries ; and moreover, no supervisor shall be allowed to hire his own carts, teams, or laborers, in his own private employment, for any service on said public roads.	Exempt from jury duty.
Sec. 6. In addition to the proper proportion of the general road tax levied for ordinary expenses of roads and bridges within the county, the County Commissioners shall have power in their discretion, upon the petition of thirty or more landowners within any road district, to levy upon the assessa- ble property within such road district an additional	Tax levied.
special tax, of not more than ten cents in the hun- dred dollars, to be collected as other county taxes, and to be expended under the direction of the County Commissioners in the improvement of the roads within said district.	Additional tax.