890 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 402

ers at their first meeting in each and every month, or as often
as requested by the County Commissioners, and make a state-
ment to them of the work done and money expended. He shall
examine and certify to the correctness of all bills and accounts,
for any work done or materials furnished on any of the public
roads, bridges or drains in Wicomico County before the same
shall be paid by the County Commissioners; and said County
Commissioners shall make no payment until such accounts have
been certified by said engineer, and the said County Commis-
sioners may approve or reject in a whole or in part any such
account.

He shall make out annually, in writing, a detailed report to
the Commissioners of all work done on the county roads,
bridges and drains for the year, showing the amount of expen-
ditures in each election district and on each road in the county;
which report shall be made on or before the 15th day of June
for the year ending on the 31st day of the preceding May; and
in making of said report he may be allowed the services of a
stenographer and typewriter, to be paid by the County Com-
missioners a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars for his serv-
ices. The said County Road Engineer shall not be interested
in any firm or corporation from which anything shall be pur-
chased for the use of said roads, bridges or drains, nor receive
any commissions on said purchase, or interested directly or in-
directly in any contract or contracts relating to any road,
bridge or drain.

119. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners
aforesaid, whenever the office of the County Road Engineer
shall become vacant by death, resignation or removal from
office, to appoint, within sixty days from the date of such
vacancy, some person in the same manner and with the same
qualifications as hereinbefore prescribed to fill said office of
County Road Engineer for the residue of the period of two
years for which the person dying or resigning, or so removed
from office, was appointed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this is an emerg-
ency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public health and safety, and having been passed by a yea and
nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1922.