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actual expenses, which shall not in any one year ex-
ceed fifty dollars for a member of the board.
SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That in the event of
the failure of the County Commissioners to secure
the services of competent Road Commissioners upon
the terms prescribed in the last preceding section of
this act, they are hereby authorized to appoint proper
persons to act as Road Commissioners, which per-
sons shall be real estate owners in the district for
which they may be appointed, to whom they may allow a compensation of two dollars per day for	Compensat'n
each day they may be actually employed in the
supervision of repairs of the roads in their districts,
and the Road Commissioners to be thus appointed
shall have the same control over roads and bridges,
and organize their district boards in the same man-
ner as hereinbefore provided. All accounts for
moneys expended on account of roads, and for actual	Bills to be
expenses, or for compensation for commissioners,	itemized
shall be itemized, sworn to before a justice of the
peace of the county, and presented to the County
Commissioners for approval by the Road Commis-
sioners claiming.
SEC. 25. And be it enacted, That whenever any
highway, other than a county road, which is a pub-
lic convenience and is used by the public, should
require repairs and improvement, and the County Commissioners of Baltimore county should be of the	Limit of ap- propriation
opinion that such repairs and improvements would
be for the convenience of the public, they may ap-
propriate such sum or sums as they may deem proper and right, to be expended for the same, not to exceed three hundred dollars per mile.
SEC. 26. And be it enacted, That this act shall	When effec-
take effect from and after the first day of December,	tive.
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Approved April 5, 1878.