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turn over all the property, tools, machinery, material, supplies and other
apparatus appropriate to the roads and bridges to said Road Directors,
and to place all maps, evidences of title and other records of the County
appertaining to roads at the free and full disposal of said Directors. The
said Road Directors shall cause to be published once every year a full,
detailed and itemized statement, giving the names, amounts and purpose
of every expenditure made by them, which said statement shall be printed
on a single sheet of paper; and said directors may contract for the pub-
lishing of said statement to be published one time in one or more news-
papers in said county, and be printed by the lowest sealed bidder therefor,
a copy of which statement shall be enclosed by the Treasurer with the levy
list and tax bill to every taxpayer. The Road Directors and Roads En-
gineer shall begin the administration of their offices on the first Monday
in April, 1904, and the Road Directors shall have power to make rules
and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act; provided, that if
one month before the day of the general election in this State for the year
1905 twenty per cent, of the registered voters of Allegany County sign a
petition requesting a referendum to the vote of the people of the said
county upon this Act, then the Election Supervisors for Allegany County
shall cause to be placed on the official ballot of said election the usual
square for and against said Act, and it shall read "For the road law,"
with a square opposite in which the voter may make his mark, and the
other to read "Against the road law," with a square opposite in which the
voter may make his mark; and if a majority of the votes cast thereon shall
be in favor of the road law, then the same shall continue in full force and
effect, but if the majority of the votes cast shall be against said road law,
then the said road law shall continue in effect until the first day of April,
1906, and no longer, after which date it shall be considered as repealed,
and the several Acts by this Act repealed shall be considered as revived
in the place thereof; provided further, that the petitions of twenty per
cent, of the voters required to secure a referendum as above stated shall
conform to all the requirements of Chapter 202 of the Acts of 1896, in
relation to independent nominations, so far as these provisions may be
applicable, and the Election Supervisors shall be satisfied that such sig-
natures are genuine and the signers are duly registered voters in said
county.

1920, ch. 77.

564. In addition to the salary provided by Section 546 the Roads
Engineer for Allegany County shall be entitled to receive such extra com-
pensation or salary as may be determined by the Road Directors for Alle-
gany County, not to exceed, however, the sum of $1,200.00 per annum in
addition to the salary provided by Section 546, if the said Board of Road
Directors for Allegany County shall deem it necessary and proper to pay
the said Roads Engineer any extra salary or compensation, the amount
of said extra compensation or salary as above mentioned and the time
and method of its payment to be determined by the said Board of Road