EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1127

after the passage of this Act, to make application to the State
Roads Commission for the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars out
of the State Aid Fund allotted to Charles County for the year

1916. and to annually make such application for the years

1917. 1918 and 1919, to be expended as aforesaid upon the
road from La Plata to Riverside; and said Commissioners are
hereby directed to begin or have begun the work upon said
road as soon after the passage of this Act, as they can have
the proper surveys made and enter into the proper contracts
or make the proper arrangements for the construction, of said
road; and out of the remaining Ten Thousand Dollars or bal
ance of the Twenty Thousand Dollars above levied, upon the
total assessable property of the County a pro rata disburse-
ment shall be made of the said fund apportioned to each of
the nine election districts of Charles County in proportion
to the assessed value of the property assessed for taxable pur-
poses in each of said several districts, and the money so levied
against the respective election districts shall be used only in
payment for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance
of roads and bridges now in existence and for the costs of ac-
quiring rights of way, constructing, reconstructing and main-
taining new roads and bridges ordered under the provisions
of law for the opening of new roads. No expenses for travel-
ing purposes of any kind shall be allowed to said engineer
except to the extent that he may be ordered to go out of the
county, and then only for such expenditures as may upon
proper vouchers be approved and ordered by a vote of the
County Commissioners entered upon the minutes of the said
board, not to exceed the sum of One Hundred Dollars, in any
one year. And it is further provided that the limitation of
the number of the supervisors set forth shall not prevent the
aforesaid County Commissioners from employing extra super-
visors or laborers in work needed upon any new road which
may have been or shall hereafter be opened in accordance with
law by the County Commissioners of the county, to be paid
for out of funds other than those set aside for the purposes
of this Act. The Board of County Commissioners is hereby
required to buy, purchase and supply for the several super-
visors so appointed by them such equipment as in the discre-
tion of the Road Engineer may be reasonably necessary for
work on said County roads, and each supervisor shall be respon-
sible for the safekeeping of all teams, tools, machinery or
other property entrusted to his or their charge, and shall ac-