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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ber chairman, two shall constitute a quorum for the trans-

action of business, when so organized they shall have full

control of the construction, and repair of the public roads

and the small bridges not costing over one hundred dollars

apiece in their respective districts and shall have full power

to determine and fix the rate of a special tax to be levied

as hereinafter provided, for the construction and maintain-

ance of such of said roads and bridges as are wholly within

the limits of their respective districts, and to co-operate the

road commissioners of adjoining districts in the construction

and maintainance of joint bridges between said districts.

Road

SEC. 141. Said road commissioners, or a majority of them,

super-

shall have power to appoint for their respective districts as

visors

many road supervisors as they may deem advisable for the

proper maintain ance of the roads and bridges, as aforesaid,

in said districts, and to remove the same and appoint others

in their discretion, provided, that in appointing such super-

visors preference shall be given to persons through whose

lands the roads are located, they shall direct said super-

visors in the work of constructing, repairing and maintain-

ing the roads and bridges under their supervision, and fix

the price of labor and material thereon.

SEC. 142. Said road commissioners, or a majority of

them in each district shall have the power to, and shall

Power to
fix rate of

determine and fix the rate of a special tax to be levied ou all

special tax

assessable property in said district, not to exceed the sum of

twenty cents on every one hundred dollars valuation, for the

construction and maintainance of said roads and bridges in

said district, and due proportion of the joint bridges between

said district and adjoining district, and shall report the

rate so determined and fixed to the county commissioners

on or before the first day of May in each and every year

taxes, at rates so reported for the various districts shall be

levied by the county" commissioners when county taxes are

levied, annually, and collected by the county tax collectors

as county taxes are collected and under the same provisions

of law, and shall be paid by said collectors to the county

treasurer, who shall keep an account of the receipts and

disbursements thereof for each district separate from all

other accounts, in books prepared for the purpose, and shall

publish an annual statement thereof for each district, along

with the annual statement which the county commissioners

are by law to publish.

SEC. 143. Each of the said road commissioners shall re-

Pay of

ceive for his services compensation at the rate of two and

commis-
sioners

one half dollars per day provided however, that no one of

them shall receive in any one year more than fifty dollars