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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

plans and specifications for road and bridge work, and such

other matters as he deems pertinent. In connection with his

other duties, the said superintendent shall act as clerk to the

said Board of County Road Commissioners. The said super-

intendent of public roads shall be paid by the Board of County

Annual salary

Road Commissioners the annual salary of fifteen hundred dol-

and expenses.

lars, in quarterly payments, and also be allowed for his actual

expenses in performance of his duties, for which sworn

vouchers must be filed with the clerk of the County Commis-

sioners, provided the same do not exceed the sum of four

hundred dollars annually.

285. The Board of County Road Commissioners shall be the

agents of the Board of County Commissioners of Prince

Powers

George's County, for the purposes and with the powers and

granted.

privileges hereby granted, and none other. They shall have the

general supervision and control of all public roads and bridges

and the buildings and repairs of the same; they shall pur-

chase and distribute the necessary implementSj tools, machinery

and materials therefor, and perform such other duties as may

be necessary to secure an efficient administration of the public

road system, subject to the provisions of this Article. Title

to all public roads and bridges and all material, machinery,

tools and implements procured as above shall be vested in the

County Commissioners of Prince George's County, and all

contracts that the said Board of County Road Commissioners

may be authorized to make shall be in its name as agents of

County Commissioners of Prince George's County.

286. The County Commissioners of Prince George's County

Annual levy-

shall annually, at their regular annual levy-taking term, levy

taking term.

upon the assessable property of the county a tax of not less

than twenty cents on the hundred dollars, which shall be for the

repairs and reconstruction of the public roads and bridges in

said county; said amount of money shall be paid one-half be-

fore the fifteenth day of July, and one-half on or before the

fifteenth day of September of the year of their levy, to the

order of the Board of County Road Commissioners, and said

tax shall be levied and collected as other county taxes. The

said County Commissioners may appropriate and levy such

other sum or sums of money as they may think needful for

the building of new bridges, the opening of new roads, and the

repairs and reconstruction of highways and bridges; and

the same shall be paid over to the Board of County

Road Commissioners, to be disbursed by them under

terms of appropriation. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for