798

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

visors and Highways Commission in any other manner they

may require. He shall have full power to suspend work being

done under contract if the same is not, in his judgment, being

done in accordance with the terms of the contract, his action

in this respect to be forthwith reported to the Commission.

Whenever work or construction or repair on bridges or roads

is done by contract, no payment called for by such contract

shall be made except upon the written certificate of such engi-

neer that such work has been done in conformity with such

Bills for labor
and materials

contract; all bills for labor and material furnished for or on

any road or bridge in the county shall be presented to the

Roads Engineer for his inspection, examination and endorse-

ment, before being presented to the Highways Commission

for payment, and the Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall

annually on or before the first day of February in each year

make a written report to the Highways Commission of Balti-

more County and to the Maryland Geological Survey covering

the following points : The condition of the roads of the

county and improvements that have been made in each dis-

trict in the twelve months ending December 31 of the previous

year; the amount and kind of material used on each road with

a detailed statement of its cost and the amount and cost of

labor on each road ; and shall further make a statement of the

plans which he has submitted to the Road Supervisors in each

Statement of
money ex-

district. The report shall contain a concise statement of the

pended.

amount of money expended in each district for material and

labor, which concise statement shall be published by the High-

ways Commission in the county papers of different political

faith twice during the month of February in each year.

195. The Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall receive

Salary and

a salary of two thousand dollars annually in monthly instal-

traveling ex-

ments and five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be

penses.

necessary to meet his traveling, office and other expenses in-

curred in the discharge of his duties, and also such further al-

lowance, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars per

year, for such clerical assistance as the Highways Commis-

sion may find requisite and necessary, such sums to be paid

out of the general road and bridge fund of the county.

196. The County Commissioners shall annually levy upon the

Annual levy
on assessable

assessable property of Baltimore County at the time of making

property.

the county levy, not less than twenty-five cents nor more than

thirty-five cents, as required by the Highways Commission of

Baltimore County, on the one hundred dollars, for the use of

the county Toads and bridges, of which sum twenty per cent.