LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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139. The County Commissioners of Carroll county shall, in
the mouth of March, in each and every year after the passage
of this act, appoint three road commissioners in each election
district of said county, except in the thirteenth election district
of said county, in which district but one road commissioner
shall be appointed, who shall be qualified voters and taxpayers
in said respective election districts, and who shall have been
bona tide residents of the county for at least two years prior
to his appointment, and in the district where three road com-
missioners shall be appointed, two of said commissioners shall
be selected from the dominant political party in the county and
one from the minority party.

Road com-
missioners.

143. Each of the said road commissioners shall receive for
his services coin pensation at the rate of two and one-half dol-
lars per day; provided, however, that no one of them shall
receive more than fifty dollars per annum, except in the thir-
teenth election district, in which district the road commissioner
shall receive. annually seventy-five dollars, and the entire cost
of the construction and maintenance of the roads and bridges
in any district and a proportionate share of the joint bridges
between said district and adjoining districts, under the pro-
visions of this net, including the per diem of the road commis-
sioners for said district, shall be paid out of the special tax
levied and collected in said district, and no part thereof shall be
paid by the County Commissioners out of the levy for county
purposes; the county treasurer shall make regular payment on
vouchers certified and approved by the road commissioners, or
a majority of them, in districts where there are three, and in
the thirteenth election district by the road commissioners for
said district, and shall carefully preserve said vouchers, and
no payment shall be made without such certification and
approval.

Compensa-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act, except Chapter
508 of the Laws of 1890, be and the same are hereby
repealed; and that this act shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved March 23d, 1896.

Effective.