PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 769

Commissioners, and he shall also submit plans and specifi-
cations and make estimates for the repairs or improvement of
any particular road or bridge when called upon by the County
Commissioners, and shall inspect and report on all ma-
terial to be used on the roads and bridges, and supervise,
as far as practicable, the work done thereon, and see that all
contracts with reference thereto are faithfully executed; he
shall submit to the road supervisors of the respective districts
a comprehensive plan for the maintenance of the roads, and
shall, when requested by the roads supervisors in any dis-
trict, or by the County Commissioners, give instructions
to the foreman or other person in charge of such re-
pairs, as to the places most in need of repairs, and the

manner in which the work shall be performed, and shall
assist the road supervisors and 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 accordance with the terms of the contract, his action
in this respect to be forthwith reported to the County
Commissioners; whenever work of construction or re-
pair on bridges or roads is done by contract, no pay-
ment called for by such contract shall be made except
upon the written certificate of such engineer that such work has
been done in conformity with such contract; all bills for labor
and material furnished for or on any road or bridge in the
County shall be presented to the Roads Engineer for his inspec-
tion, examination and endorsement before being presented to

the County Commissioners for payment; and the Baltimore
County Roads Engineer shall annually, on or before the first

day of February in each year, make a written report to the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, and to the Mary-
land Geological Survey, covering the following points: The con-
dition of the roads of the County, and improvements that have
been made in each district in the twelve months ending Decem-
ber 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 su-
pervisors 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 County Commissioners in two County papers of different
political faith, twice during the month of February in each year.