ART. 5.] ROADS. 619

of him as supervisor of said roads; and at each monthly meeting
of said board of road commissioners he shall submit to said board
a statement showing everything hired by him during the preced-
ing month, from whom the same were hired and the sum agreed
to be paid for the hire thereof; but nothing in this section shall
authorize the said supervisor to hire anything whatever, contrary
to the advice and order of the road commissioners of his district.

1880, ch. 366. 1888, ch. 160.

116. The said board of road commissioners shall meet at their
office in Prince Frederick on the second Tuesday of every month
in each year except the months of December, January and Feb-
ruary, at which meeting they shall receive and carefully examine
the accounts and statement made by the said supervisor as herein-
before provided for, and from said accounts compute the number
of days each laborer has been employed on the public roads in
said county, and the number of days the said supervisor has been
engaged therein, allowing in such computation ten hours of active
work to constitute one day, and twenty-six days to constitute one
month; and each laborer shall be paid at the rate of twenty-six
dollars per month, and each supervisor at the rate of thirty-five
dollars per month; and the said board of road commissioners shall
deliver to said supervisor and each laborer, signed by at least two
members of the board of road commissioners, an order on the
collector of taxes for his election district for the sum of money
which may be found to be due to each of them as aforesaid; and
at each of said monthly meetings, any person having a claim for
the hire of horses, oxen, wagons, carts, plows, or for any imple-
ment hired by him to a supervisor of the roads, may present the
same to the said board of road commissioners, and make affidavit
before one of said board of commissioners as to the correctness
of said account; and if the said board shall be satisfied that the
same is proper to be paid, they shall give to said claimant an
order, signed as aforesaid, on the collector of taxes of the district,
in which said claimant resides, for the sum of money said com-
missioners shall find to be due to said claimant.

Ibid.

117. The county commissioners, at their annual meeting for
levying county taxes, shall levy on the assessable property of the