ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1363

by it such indemnity bond for the faithful performance of
duty as the Commission may deem proper, and said Commis-
sioners may remove any of said persons from their positions,
but only in the manner hereinafter provided. And said Com-
mission may also rent or lease all proper and necessary offices
and other places which it may deem proper and necessary for
the performance of its duties and the purposes of law. The
said Commission shall keep a journal in which shall be entered
all its proceedings in detail, the correctness of the same to be
attested at each succeeding meeting by the Chairman and Sec-
retary of the Commission. Said Commission shall also keep
books showing in detail all expenditures of money in the State
in connection with the establishment or improvement of roads,
and in connection with all work whatsoever of the Commission,
which books and records shall be open to the inspection of any
taxpayer of the State, at any time, No member of said Commis-
sion shall become pecuniarily interested in any contract for
work done or material provided in connection with any of the
work of said Commission. The Commission shall at the time of
its organization, as aforesaid, and thereafter from time to time,
adopt such by-laws and rules of procedure for the conduct of
its business as it may deem necessary. It shall annually com-
pile and publish maps and statistics relating to the public
roads of the State and showing the progress and status of the
work done or entered upon by it and separately for the several
counties. All maps, plans and statistics made, collected and
compiled under its direction shall be preserved in its office
and shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer of the
State. All bills or claims on account of any of the work of
the said Commission or in any way relating to its duties
or transactions shall be passed upon by the Commission, and
no obligation involving the expenditure of more than fifty
dollars, and no contract involving a larger expenditure than
fifty dollars, shall be allowed or made except by a majority
vote of all members of the Commission at a meeting thereof;
all contracts, agreements, grants, licenses, made or entered
into by the Commission shall be recorded in books kept for
that purpose, which shall always be open to the inspection of
the public. It shall be the duty of the members of the Com-
mission to travel over and personally inspect the public high-
ways in the several parts of the State and the work being done
on the same, in order that they may have, as far as possible,
personal knowledge of the requirements of the several sections