ART. 7.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 703

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 7, sec. 9.

18. There shall be three county commissioners for Carroll
county.

1872, ch. 16. 1874, ch. 19.

19. The county commissioners are authorized and empowered
to subscribe to the capital stock of any turnpike company, already
Organized or hereafter to be organized in said county, in the name
and for the benefit of said county, a sum of money not to exceed
in any case four hundred dollars for each mile of road that may
be made in said county, and a sum of money not to exceed four
hundred dollars for each mile of turnpike made and completed
by any company hereafter to be organized.

Ibid

20. They are authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of
said county, or certificates of indebtedness to the amount of stock
so subscribed, and negotiate said bonds or certificates of indebted-
ness upon the most favorable terms; provided, such bonds shall
not be sold at less than par; and the county commissioners are
authorized to levy upon the assessable property of the county an
amount sufficient to pay the annual interest upon said bonds, and
the principal at maturity.

Ibid

21. They shall be entitled to be represented in all meetings of
stockholders, and shall vote in all elections of directors in all of
said companies, in proportion to the stock held by them in said
companies, respectively.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 7, sec. 13.

22. The clerk of the circuit court for Carroll county shall
annually, on or before the first day of March, furnish the county
commissioners all copies of such lists, accounts, papers and docu-
ments as may be useful and necessary in ascertaining the county
charges, and according to the directions he may from time to
time receive from the commissioners, for which he shall receive
such fees as are allowed by law for like services; and in case of
refusal and neglect to do so, he shall forfeit to the commissioners,