CECIL COUNTY. 1955
designated on the ballots cast at said election by the words "Long Term"
written or printed over the name of the person voted for.*
1892, ch. 190, sec. 106B. 1894, ch. 387, sec. 106B. 1910, ch. 6, sec. 106B (p. 721).
1914, ch. 538, sec. 106B. 1918, ch. 67, sec. 106B.
128. For the purpose of the supervision of the public roads and bridges
in Cecil County, each County Commissioner shall have control and juris-
diction over the Commissioner District for which he is elected, subject to
the following regulations and restrictions :
(1) He shall be limited in his expenditures on the roads and bridges
in any one year in his Commissioner District to one-third of the amount
levied for roads and bridges in the county; said levy shall not exceed
thirty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of the entire tax levy for the
county.
(2) In case of special necessity, however, arising from floods or other
unusual damages, he may be authorized by a unanimous vote of the Board
of County Commissioners to expend such other sum as it may direct.
(3) The County Commisisoner in each Commissioner District shall act
as supervisor of roads and bridges in his Commissioner District, and shall
have exclusive charge and oversight of said roads and bridges and all re-
pairs thereto.
(4) Before any bill for work on roads and bridges shall be submitted
to the Board of County Commissioners, it shall be first examined and
marked "Approved" by the Commissioner having charge of the Commis-
sioner District in which the work was done. All bills presented for pay-
ment in the office of the County Commissioners shall be at all times open
to the inspection of the public during office hours and under the direction
of an employee of the office.
(5) Each County Commissioner shall inspect all the public roads and
bridges in the Commissioner District from which he is elected, at least,
twice in every year; one inspection shall be between the first day of Janu-
ary and the first day of April; one inspection shall be between the first
day of August and the first day of November. He shall inspect all re-
pairs to the public roads and bridges in his Commisisoner District as soon
as possible after such repairs are made, and unless the contract for said
repairs has been fully complied with he shall refuse to approve the bill
for the same.
1894, ch. 387, sec. 106C. 1908, ch. 625, sec. 106C (p. 718). 1910, ch. 150 (p. 732).
1914, ch. 538, sec. 106C. 1918, ch. 67, sec. 106C 1920, ch. 43.
129. The County Commissioners of Cecil County shall receive an an-
nual salary of two thousand dollars in lieu of all other compensation, per
diem or mileage, and shall be required to devote all their time to the
duties of said office. (The President of the Board shall receive one hun-
dred dollars additional pay.) The above mentioned salary is to com-
*All elective county officials are elected for terms of four years in even numbered
years, under Article 17 of Md. Constitution.
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