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made in each district in the twelve months ending December
31st of the previous year; the amount and kind of material
used on each road, with a detailed statement of its cost, and
the amount and cost of labor on each road; and shall further
make a statement of the plans which he has submitted to the
road supervisors in each district. The report shall contain a
concise statement of the amount of money expended in each
district for material and labor, which concise statement shall
be published by the Highways Commission in two county
papers of different political faith, twice during the month of
February in each year.

346. The Baltimore County Roads Engineer shall receive a
salary of two thousand dollars annually, in monthly instal-
ments, and five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to meet his traveling, office and other expenses
incurred in the discharge of his duties, and also such further
allowance, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars per
year for such clerical assistance as the Highways Commission
may find requisite and necessary, such sums to be paid out of
the general road and bridge fund of the county.

347. The County Commissioners shall annually levy upon
the assessable property of Baltimore county, at the time of
making the county levy, not less than twenty-five cents nor
more than thirty-five cents, as required by the Highways Com-
mission of Baltimore county, on the one hundred dollars, for
the use of the county roads and bridges, of which sum twenty
per cent, shall be set apart as a general road and bridge fund,
and be applied to the general use and benefit of the roads and
bridges of the county as directed and apportioned for special
purposes, or among the several districts by the Highways Com-
mission, and the remaining eighty per cent, of the tax so levied
and collected for roads and bridges, shall be set apart as a
special road and bridge fund for the use and benefit of the
election, district from which it has been collected, and for no
other purpose; the said Highways Commission shall not at
any time appropriate any part of such general fund for the
improvement of any particular road in excess of three thous-
and dollars per mile, unless it be for the construction or repair
of a bridge. Whenever the people of any election district may
desire a special road fund for such district in excess of that
provided by the general rate of tax levied for, they may peti-
tion the Highways Commission for a special road tax for such
district, not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars of
the assessable property of such district, which petition must
represent two-fifths of the taxable basis of such 'district, and
when such petition is presented to the Commission, it shall be