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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 365

out this requirement they may have surveyed and re-located
any of said roads. All roads shall be thirty feet wide and
the bed or traveled portion of every road shall be of suffi-
cient width to allow teams to conveniently pass each other.
Before making any permanent or special improvement cost-
ing one thousand dollars or over a mile, to any of said main
roads they shall consult with the highway commission of
Maryland as to the most approved method of making the
same, and may employ a road engineer to lay out and super-
intend the work. They may purchase all machinery,
appliances and material necessary to make said special or
permanent improvement or repairs; and in all cases where
any such permanent improvement is made to any of the main
county roads, the same shall, except as hereinafter provided,

Bids received.

be let out on contract. Public bids shall be received for the
same, after due notice, upon such terms as they may pre,-
scribe. When a bridge costing over five hundred dollars is
to be built, a road engineer may be consulted as to kind,
character, cost and approved method of building the same
before a bid for its construction is accepted, and in event the
bids for making any special or permanent improvement or
repair to any of said roads or for building any of said
bridges shall be deemed excessive, the County Commis-
sioners shall reject them and call for new bids or construct
the same themselves, under the supervision of the road
engineer; all expense connected with the building of bridges
costing over one hundred dollars, and the permanent improve-
ment of, or temporary repairs to, the main roads hereinbefore

Expenses
incurred.

provided for shall be paid out of the said general road fund,
or if it shall be insufficient, the deficiency shall be made up
from the general funds of the county not otherwise appro-
priated. In making the general repairs to the county roads
they shall require three-fourths of the amount allotted to
each road district to be expended before the 15th of June
and the balance before the 1st of November in each year,
and in case of bills coming in from any road district before
the levy is collected for the same, they may advance from
the general funds of the county enough to meet them,
reimbursing the county as the collection from such districts
may be made. No bills shall be paid unless sworn to and
duly approved by the road commissioners for such district.

SEC. 138 A. Whenever any doubt exists as to the proper
location or width of a county road or the County Commis-