952 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and necessary, such sums to be paid out of the general road
and bridge fund of the county. The Road Superintendent for
Montgomery County shall inspect the roads and bridges in
each district as often as may be necessary to thoroughly fa-
miliarize himself with the condition and requirements of the
county generally, and recommend to the said County Commis-
sioners such repairs and improvements as he may think ad-
visable; he shall make such general or special examination of
any road or bridge as may be required by the said Commission-
ers, and he shall also submit plans and specifications and make
estimates for the construction, repairs or improvement of any
particular road or bridge when called upon by the said County
Commissioners, and shall inspect 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 with reference thereto are
faithfully executed; he shall have supervision of the operation,
preservation and repair of roadmaking and road-maintaining
machinery and equipment, and of machinery, tools and equip-
ment 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 the said Commis-
sioners, give instructions to the foreman 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 man-
ner they may require; he shall have full power to suspend work
being done under contract, if the same is not, in his judgment,
being done in accordance with the terms of the contract, his
action in this respect to be forthwith reported to the said
County Commissioners for their final action; whenever work
of construction or repair on bridges or roads is done by con-
tract, no payment called for by such contract shall be made
until after the said Road Superintendent has endorsed his rec-
ommendations upon the bill therefor; all bills for labor and
material furnished for any bridge or on any macadam or other
permanently improved road in the county shall be presented
to the Road Superintendent for his inspection, examination
and endorsement before being presented to the said County
Commissioners for payment; neither the Road Superintendent
for Montgomery County, nor any assistant under him, shall
have pecuniary interest in any such contracts; and the Road
Superintendent for Montgomery County shall annually, on or
before the first day of February in each year, make a written
report to the said County Commissioners, covering the follow-
ing points, an inventory of the road machinery, tools and
equipment of the county, the condition of the roads of the