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Commissioners. He shall appear before the Commissioners at
their, first meeting in each and every month, or as often as
requested by the County Commissioners, and make a statement
to them of the work done and money expended. He shall exam-
ine and certify to the correctness of all bills and accounts for
any work done or materials furnished on any of the public
roads, bridges or drains in Wicomico county before the same
shall be paid by the County Commissioners; and said County
Commissioners shall make no payment until such accounts have
been certified by said Engineer.

He shall make out annually, in writing, a detailed report to
the Commissioners of all work done on the county roads, bridges
and drains for the year, showing the amount of expenditures
in each election district and on each road in the county; which
report shall be made on or before the 15th day of June for
the year ending on the 31st day of the preceding May; and in
the making of said report he may be allowed the services of a
stenographer and typewriter, to be paid by the County Com-
missioners a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars for his-
services. The said County Road Engineer shall not be inter-
ested in any firm or corporation from which anything shall be
purchased for the use of said roads, bridges or drains, nor
receive any commissions on said purchase, or interested directly
or indirectly in any contract or contracts relating to any road,
bridge or drain.

118. The County Road Engineer may contract with and
appoint by and with the consent of the County Commissioners,
Road Supervisors for any road or roads in Wicomico county,
who shall be under the control and direction of the Road Engi-
neer, and on failure to comply with their contract or contracts,
or failure to perform their duties may be suspended or removed
at any time by the County Road Engineer for good and suffi-
cient reasons and the vacancy supplied in the manner above
prescribed.

119. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners
aforesaid, whenever the office of County Road Engineer shall
become vacant by death, resignation or removal from office, to
appoint, within sixty days from the date of such vacancy, some
person in the same manner and with the same qualifications as
hereinbefore prescribed to fill said office of County Road Engi-
neer for the residue of the period of four years for which the
person so dying or resigning, or so removed from office, was
appointed.

120. All expenditures incurred under the provisions of the
preceding sections shall be paid out of the road fund of twenty