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vided in the next succeeding levy. All bills and claims on account of
roads and bridges in the County shall receive the endorsement, of the Road
Engineer before payment and shall be passed upon by the County Com-
missioners at a regular or adjourned meeting, and no such bill or claim in-
volving the expenditure of more than One Hundred Dollars ($100), and
no contract or agreement involving a larger expenditure from the roads
funds of the County shall be allowed or made except by a majority vote
of the said County Commissioners. All claims allowed and passed as
aforesaid shall be approved by the President and attested by the Clerk of
the said County Commissioners and when so approved an order for the
amount of same shall be drawn against the County Tax Collector who shall
pay the said amount out of the proper funds.

1924, ch. 75, sec. 342H.

719. The said County Commissioners of Washington County shall not,
expend or contract to expend in any one year more money than shall have
been provided by levy or otherwise for road and bridge expenses during
such year, and shall incur no debts that are not payable out of the funds
derived from such levy or other sources, except in case of an emergency
as provided in the preceding section, and to this end the Clerk of the said
County Commissioners shall compile and place before the Commissioners
at the regular meeting immediately following the first and fifteenth day
of each month a detailed statement of the amounts expended from each
fund since the beginning of the fiscal year and the amount to the credit
of the General Road and Bridge Fund and each of the districts funds on
the basis of the entire levy for the such purposes for such year. A copy of
each said detailed statements at the time of the delivery to the County
Commissioners shall be furnished to the office of the Road Engineer.*

TURNPIKES.

1918, ch. 6.

720. The County Commissioners of Washington County are hereby
authorized and empowered to acquire by agreement, gift, grant, purchase
or condemnation proceedings under the Public General Laws of Mary-
land, any toll road or turnpike whatsoever in said County, and to levy
upon the assessable property of said Washington County an amount suffi-
cient to pay for any such toll road or turnpike, and the said road shall
thereafter be a public road of said County of the width and length so
acquired.

1906, ch. 741, secs. 1 and 2.

721. It shall be unlawful for the owners of land bordering on the
Hagerstown and Smithsburg turnpike, in Washington county, their agents,
servants or employes, or for any other person, to erect, locate, build or
establish and maintain any fences, along said turnpike outside of the lines.

*Sec. 3, ch. 75, 1924, repealed all Acts inconsistent therewith.