CARROLL COUNTY. 1827

Commissioners at least every three months, showing the road and bridges
repaired, the amount of labor and money expended on each, and calling
attention to such facts as require their consideration. It shall be the duty
of the road commissioner so appointed to take direct care and charge on
and in behalf of the County Commissioners of all roads and bridges in
his district, and he shall see that no obstruction, hindrance or injury is
permitted upon or to any of them. Whenever any road shall form the
boundary between districts or any bridge shall lie partly in one district
and partly in another, the County Commissioners shall assign to the road
commissioner for each district the whole or portion of such road or whole
of such bridge over which he shall have supervision as aforesaid. Said
road commissioners shall frequently inspect all roads and bridges in their
respective districts, and shall promptly report to the County Commis-
sioners any defects therein or the need for repairs and improvements
thereto. They shall keep all roads and bridges in their respective districts
in general good repair, and to this end they may appoint road supervisors
for particular roads or portions thereof, employ such labor and make such
expenditures from time to time in connection therewith as the County
Commissioners may allow them for such purposes. In addition to such
regular expenditures, they may in a case of emergency make repairs to the
roads or bridges in their respective districts at a cost not exceeding fifty
dollars without receiving in advance special authority from the County
Commissioners therefor; but, except in the case of such allowance for
general repairs and in the case of an emergency as aforesaid they shall
make no expenditures unless express authority from the County Com-
missioners is first had and obtained. Said road commissioners shall per-
sonally superintend and supervise all work done on the county roads and
bridges in their respective districts, including the construction of new
roads, and all work done under contract by the County Commissioners,
except in cases where the County Commissioners shall otherwise provide,
and shall have power to discharge their road supervisors and all other
employees for neglect of duty or other cause. They shall perform all work
in their respective districts in accordance with the plans, specifications,
suggestions or directions imposed by the County Commissioners; also
perform such other duties with respect to the public roads and bridges as
the County Commissioners may by their regulations or orders prescribe.
No road commissioner shall have any pecuniary interest in any contract,
or shall furnish any team for any road work, except in such cases as the
County Commissioners shall expressly authorize in advance by an order
duly entered on their records. Except as aforesaid, every road commis-
sioner, when presenting for payment any bill for the hire of horses, or
carts, or wagons, shall append thereto an affidavit that he is uot interested,
directly or indirectly, in the payments of the amounts charged for such
hire of horses, or carts, or wagons, or for any material furnished. Said
road commissioners shall keep books, showing in detail the expenditures
made by them or under their supervision on each road in their respective
districts, including the cost of all material used on the roads and the labor