EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 603

County shall inspect the roads and bridges in each district as
often as may be necessary to thoroughly familiarize himself
with the condition and the requirements of the County gen-
erally, and recommend to the said County Commissioners such
repairs and impiovements as he may think advisable; he shall
make such general or special examination of any road or
bridge as may be required by said Commissioners, and he shall
submit plans and specifications and make estimates for the con-
struction, repairs or improvement of any particular road or
bridge authorized by said County Commissioners; such plans
and specifications when adopted by the board shall not be
changed except by a majority vote of the full board; said
road superintendent shall inspect or cause to be inspected
and report on all material to be used on the roads and
bridges, and supervise the work done on the bridges, and
on stone or other permanently improved roads, and see
that all contracts in reference thereto are faithfully executed;
he shall have supervision subject to the control of the said
Commissioners of the operation, preservation and repair of
road making and road maintaining machinery and equipment,
and of machinery, tools and equipment for quarrying and
crushing stone; he shall submit to the said Commissioners a
comprehensive plan for the maintenance of the roads, and
shall, when requested by said Commissioners, give instructions
to the foremen or other person in charge of such repairs as to
the places most in need of repairs, and the manner in which
the work shall be performed, and shall assist the said County
Commissioners in any other manner they may require; he
shall have full power to suspend work being done under con-
tract if the same is not, in his judgment, being done in'accord-
ance with the terms of the contract, his action in this respect
to be forthwith reported to the said County Commissioners
for their final action and control; and said County Commis-
sioners shall have the right to require said road superintend-
ent to endorse his recommendation upon any and all bills
growing out of such contract before paying the same; no con-
tract for any machinery, equipment, labor and materials for
any bridge or any macadam or any permanently improved
road in the county shall be entered into by said road super-
tendent without the authorization of the County Commission-
ers first had and obtained; neither the road superintendent
for Montgomery County nor any assistant under him shall
have pecuniary interest in any such contracts, and the road