410 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 209]

moneys shall be deposited in some national bank in said county
where interest can be obtained if possible, subject to the credit
of the Board of Road Commissioners in a separate account to
be used exclusively for the repairing of such roads and bridges
as have not been designated by the State Road Commission or
selected by the Board of Road Commissioners of said county
for permanent road building.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That if the said Board of Road
Commissioners shall find it necessary at any time for the proper
construction of said roads and bridges to employ an engineer or
surveyor to lay out, make plans and perform other services in
regard to the laying out and construction of said roads and
bridges, and an engineer or surveyor, they are hereby author-
ized to do so, provided, always that the service so to be per-
formed shall be given in preference to the county surveyor of
said county, and if they so find it necessary the said surveyor
or engineer shall be paid for such services a sum not exceeding
four ($4.00) dollars per day for the time in which he shall be
so employed.

SEC. 10. All roads built under the provisions of this act
shall have a surface of eighteen feet in width exclusive of
ditches or drains, on which shall be placed gravel or gravel and
clay, as the Board of Road Commissioners in their discretion
may deem best according to the nature of the soil, not less
than ten feet in width and six inches in depth, and all bridges
and culverts hereafter to be built in permanent road construc-
tion, shall be made of iron, steel or concrete and the said road
commissioners are hereby directed to commence their perma-
nent road building in their respective district on the three-
notched road, and complete the same from the present State
road in the fifth election district, to the ridge, in the first elec-
tion district, and after the completion of said three notched
road, as herein specified, then to proceed to construct the mail
roads, and the roads leading to the principal wharves in the
several districts.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Road
Commissioners as provided for by this act, shall have authority
to sell or dispose of any mules or equipment, when the road
building in said county has been so far advanced as to render
the whole amount of teams and equipment unnecessary for the
economical working of the road, and the money received from
the sale of said team or equipment, shall be placed to the credit
of the road fund of said county, and the said road commis-
sioners shall have authority to reduce the number of laborers