PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 405

from the first day of November until the first day of March.
They shall regulate the hours of labor and the wages of labor
providing that the hours of labor and the wages of all employees
shall be uniform in each road commissioner district and shall
not exceed the usual wages paid to laborers for such work; nor
shall any road commissioner delegate any part of his authority
nor employ any person to supervise or oversee the work on his
road except in case of unavoidable absence on sickness; provided,
however, that nothing in this act shall prevent the road commis-
sioners of the respective road commissioner districts to desig-
nate road bosses to do repaid work in their respective road com-
missioner district out of the levy provided for road repairs in
Saint Mary's county.

The road commissioners shall purchase all road machinery,
rollers, carts, wagons, mules, feed "splitlog drags" and other
implements and things necessary to properly work the roads
and build bridges and culverts and shall have power to sell
all worn-out or useless equipment at public sale for cash upon
ten days' notice by advertisement in a county newspaper. They
shall have the right to purchase or lease gravel banks or other-
wise acquire desirable material for road construction and repair
and shall have the right to condemn land for such purpose or
for the purpose of widening or straightening roads as land is
now condemned by the county commissioners under the provi-
sions of section 90 of Article 25 of Poe's Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of 1904. They may employ clerical help and an
attorney at not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum.

Each road commissioner shall have sole power and authority
over the actual working of the road and building and repair of
bridges in his road commissioner district, and shall employ
and discharge all labor and shall be responsible for all machin-
ery and equipment in his road commissioner district.

It shall be the duty of the road commissioner of each road
commissioner district to keep in a book to be provided for
that purpose by the Board of Road Commissioners, a full, com-
plete, accurate and easily understood account of all money
expended by him in each of the several election districts of his
road commissioner district, which account must specify the
name of the person to whom the money was paid, the date and
the purpose for which it was paid and the amount thereof, and
this book shall be submitted to the inspection of any taxpayer
of the road commissioner district whenever such inspection is
demanded, and any road commissioner who shall fail to enter
in said book any sum of money expended by him or shall make
any fraudulent or deceptive entry therein shall be guilty of a