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provide for the repairs of all the public roads and bridges of
the county, and for that purpose they shall levy npon the:
assessable property of the county, and pay the expenditures for
such repairs, and all incidental expenses arising therefrom ;
provided, however, they shall not expend for such purpose in
any one year more than the sum of ten thousand dollars ; and
they shall divide the county into road districts, and the roads
into sections and appoint supervisors over the same not exceed-
ing nine in number, who shall receive one dollar and fifty
cents a day for every day actually spent in the performance of
their duties as such supervisors, the account for which they
shall itemize and swear to before the County Commissioners,
and shall be paid monthly therefor ; said supervisors to hold
their offices for the term of one year, and until their succes-
sors are appointed, and to give bond as set forth and required
in section one hundred and fifty-nine of this Article, and it
shall be the duty of said supervisors to keep in repair the
roads and bridges of the county, under the direction and regu-
lation of the County Commissioners. For any negleet of duty
they shall be subject to removal from office, and to deduction
from their compensation by the County Commissioners, and
for that or any other malfeasance in office they shall be also
liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for said county ; pro-
vided, further, however, that whenever, in their judgment and
discretion, the said County Commissioners shall find it neces-
sary to open up and construct any new road in said county,
and that the fund hereinbefore provided for shall not be suffi-
cient for the same, they may levy such amount as, in their judg-
ment may be sufficient for the said new road; provided, that said
new road shall not be less than three miles in length, and the
amount to be levied for such new road or roads shall in no event
be more than twenty-five hundred dollars in any one year; and
provided, further, for the opening and construction of such new
road or new roads as aforesaid, the said County Commissioners
may make provision by the appointment of a special super-
visor and laborers, if they shall deem it best for the in-
terest of the county, or by contract, or by the supervisor or
supervisors of the road district or districts in which the said
new road may lie. And the Commissioners are hereby author-
ized, whenever in their judgment, there may be special and
urgent reasons therefor, to require and order a road super-
visor of one district, and the laborers under him to perform
work in another district or other districts of said county.
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