EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said County Commis-

sioners shall provide for the payment of said road expenses by

Levying of

taxes to pay

levying upon the assessable property of the county a tax suffi-

expenses.

cient to pay said expenses incurred as aforesaid for the opening

improving, repairs and construction of the public roads ; and

each Commissioner shall, after examination of the public roads

in his respective district and over which he shall have control,

submit to the Board the amount deemed necessary to build

and repair the roads and bridges of the same; provided, the

tax imposed for the same shall not exceed twenty cents in

every hundred dollars of the assessable basis of the county;

and in the event one of the districts shall not be represented

in the Board of County Commissioners, the said Board shall

collect such information from the taxpayers of that district

as they may deem satisfactory and make their levy according;

when, however, any public road shall be the dividing line be-

tween two or more election districts, the expenses incurred for

opening, repairing or construction of said road or bridges upon

the same, the cost shall be equally borne by the two districts.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

shall at their first meeting; in April, beginning with the year

Appointment

of super-

1905, and each alternate year thereafter, appoint for each elec-

visors.

tion district one supervisor who shall serve for two years, or

until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall

have charge and control of the laborers employed in working

upon the roads, and he shall keep an accurate account of the

hour in which each laborer begins his work and the number

of hours he is employed therein each day, and he shall be

present the entire time directing and assisting therein ; and at

every monthly meeting of the County Commissioners he shall

submit to said Board the account required by the Commis-

sioners, and make oath, administered by one of the Board, that

said account is a true statement of the number of hours each

laborer was engaged in active work on the roads during the

preceding month, and that he was present with the laborers

during that time ; and if said supervisor is compelled to be ab-

sent during that time he shall state the number of hours he

was so absent, with reasons for such absence; and if any such

account so produced shall contain any false statement, or if

said supervisor shall fail to perform his duties herein required

of him to the satisfaction of said Board of County Commis-

.

sioners, he may at once be dismissed from his position by the

Dismissal and

forfeiture of

said Board, and forfeit all pay due him for his services as road

pay

supervisor.