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for the location from which the vacancy occurred in order to equitably
maintain a representation in the different sections of the district. The
said district road committee shall serve without compensation. No obliga-
tion or expense shall be incurred by any road supervisor except upon the
concurrence of the majority of said district road committee, nor unless
there are funds available for said purpose, and no payment shall be made
by the County Commissioners to any road supervisor until the bill or.
account duly itemized shall have been approved in writing by his district
road committee or a majority thereof.

1922, ch. 200, sec. 282.

890. The live stock, harness and other material other than machinery
and equipment now owned by the said county for road purposes, as soon
as practicable after the passage of this Act, shall be sold by the Board
of County Commissioners, and the proceeds thereof shall be equally di-
vided among the road districts created by this Act according to road
mileage, and so distributed; and shall be used in the said district in the
purchase of necessary road machinery and equipment, and the road ma-
chinery and equipment now owned by said county shall be divided by the
Board of County Commissioners among said road districts according to-
mileage for use in the several road districts, and the County Commission-
ers shall equitably apportion the use of said machinery and equipment as
now owned, in order that the supervisor in each road district may use the
same for the working of the roads, and in the event that any machinery
or equipment so in use in any road district should become out of repair,
and need repair, such repair shall be chargeable against the fund of the
road district in which said machinery was operating at the time of its
impairment. In the event that it be determined impracticable to so divide
any of the said road machinery or equipment for use as aforesaid then
the same shall be sold, and the proceeds divided among said road districts
according to road mileage.

1922, ch. 200, sec. 283.

891. The Board of County Commissioners shall have power to open
new roads and close old roads when they shall deem it advisable, follow-
ing the provisions of the Code of Public General Laws-relating thereto.
The expense thereof shall be charged to the road district in which said
road may.be located, except when the location and opening of any new
road or roads, or the closing of an old road or roads, may be in more than
one district, then, the expense thereof shall be charged to the road districts,
into which the said new roads may run, or old roads may be closed, ratably
according to the mileage of the said roads in said district or districts.

The County Commissioners shall have the right to purchase or lease
gravel banks or stone quarries, or otherwise acquire desirable material for
road construction and repair, and shall have the right to condemn land
for such purpose or for the purpose of widening, straightening or opening
roads as land is now or may hereafter be condemned by law. The title-