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ing shall show in detail the disposition of road funds and the amount
expended in each road district. The clerk shall prepare annually each
year from the itemized statements and accounts for the respective road
supervisors, a statement showing receipts and expenditures of the road
fund, which statement shall be published in at least two newspapers in
said county in the month of December in each year as designated by the
Board of County Commissioners. All checks shall be in a form pre-
scribed by the County Commissioners and shall show on their face the
purpose for which payment is made and against what fund payment shall
be charged; and it shall be signed by the president of the Board of County

Commissioners and countersigned by the road clerk. No check as afore-
said shall be drawn in payment of any account pertaining to any road
district until after the same has been approved by the Road Committee
of that District and passed upon by the County Commissioners, and filed
by the clerk. It shall be the duty of the road clerk at the time of coun-
tersigning the checks to enter the payment in a road book provided for
this purpose, so that the County Commissioners shall have in their office,

open to public inspection at all times, a full and complete copy of the road
funds and the distribution thereof.

1922, oh. 200, sec. 281.

889. In each road district there shall be a district road committee, com-
posed of five taxpayers who shall be freeholders in said district and each

a resident of and a voter in said district. Said district road committee
shall be appointed immediately upon the passage of this Act, in the man:
ner hereinbefore provided, and annually thereafter on the third Tuesday
in March in each year by the Board of County Commissioners in said

county, and in making said appointments the said County Commissioners

shall take into consideration the different sections of each district, as far
as possible the County Commissioners shall select members to compose said
road district committees from different sections of the various districts,
with the view of having the work and repair of roads, and improvements

done thereon fairly and equitably distributed. That the said County Com-
missioners in the selection of the district road committee, in each road

district, shall totally disregard the political affiliation of any appointee,
and shall exercise their best judgment in the selection of persons who will
give the best service, and who will devote the necessary time and atten-
tion in order that the best results may be obtained. That said district road

committee shall serve for one year, or until their successors have been
appointed and qualified. Said district road committees shall organize by
the election of a chairman, a vice-chairman and secretary, and a majority

of the said committee shall always have the power to act. In case of death,
resignation, refusal to act or removal from the district, any vacancy or
vacancies in the district road committees shall be filled by appointment
by said Board of County Commissioners from among the freeholders in

said district in which said vacancy occurred, and who shall be a resident
and voter therein, and in filling the vacancy they shall have due regard