The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-25

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when their Office and all records, funds
and property under their control shall
he turned over to their successors.
2S3. The Board of District Road
Trustees shall each be composed OF
three persons, frecholders and residents
of the road district which they are to
manage, and shall be appointed by the
board of county road commissioners on
the first day of April or at their first
meeting thereafter in each year. They
shall meet immedlatey y after their ap-
pointmcnt, organize and enter upon
their duties. They shall appoint from
among themselves chairman to hold
Office for one year; and promptly give
notice Of their organization to the
board of county road commissioners.
In case Of inelliciency, refusal to act:
breach Of trust or removal from his
road district, on the part of any dis
trict road trustee, the board of colnty
road commissioners shall declare the
office of such trustee vacant and notify
him of such action; said board shall
thereupon appoint a successor to the
trustee so removed for his uneXpired
term. Said district road trustee shall
serve without pay. In case suitable
trustee or trustees can not be gotten in
any road district to serve without
pay, the board of county road commits
sioners may allow to him or them rea-
sonable compensation to be fixed before
the acceptance of office and to be taken
from the funds allotted to said road
district.
DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY ROAD
COMMISSIONERS.
2S4. The board OF county road COM
missioncrs shall meet at the county
seat for organization in the year 1900,
as soon after their appointment and
qualification as may be practicable, and
in the year 1902, and every second
year thereafter on the first Monday of
February or as soon thereafter as may
be practicable and at such other times
as may be necessary, they shall organ
ize 10y electing from among themselves
president whose term shall be at the
pleasure of said board and until his
successor may be chosen. Each COM
missioner shall receive per day for each
day of his attendance at the board or
on road supervision designated by the
board the sum Of five dollars, provided
that the aggregate amount paid in one
year to commissioners rs per diem or
any other compensation shall not eX
ceed an average of two hundred dollars
for each commissioners.
2S5. The board of county road COM
missioners shall be the agents Of the
board of county commissioners for
Prince Georges county for the pur-
poses and with the powers and priv
ileges hereby granted and none other.
They shall have the general supervision
and control of all public roads and
bridges and the building and repairs
of the same, they shall purchase and
distribute the necessary implements,
tools, machinery and materials therefor
and perform such other duties as may
he necessary to secnre an efficient adj
ministration of the public road system,
subject to the provisions OF this article.
Title to all public roads and bridges and
all material, machinery, tools and i'm
plements procured as above, shall be
vested in the county commissioners Of
Prince Georges county, and all con
tracts that the said board of county
road commissioners may be authorized
to make shall be in its name as agent
Of the comfy commissioners Of Prince
Georges 5 county.
2SG The county commissioners of
Prince Georges county shall annually
at their regular levy laying term levy
upon the assessablc property of the
county Il tax of not less than twenty
cents on the hundred dollars which
shall hc for the repairs and reconstruc-
ton of the public roads and bridges in
said county, sail amount of money
shall be paid one-half on or before the
fifteenth day of July and one half on or
before the fifteenth day of September
of the year of their levy to the order
of the board of county road commits
sioners and said tax shall he levied and
collected as other county taxes. The
said county commissioners may appro-
pirate and levy such other sum or
sans of money rs they may think
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the opening of new roads and the re-
pairs and construction of highways and
bridges and the same shall be paid over
to the board of county road commits
sion2rs to be disbursed 10y them under
the terms of the appropriation. The
clerk of the circuit court for Prince
Georges county shall pay over to the
said county road commissioners the
money received from liquor licenses un-
der section 252 of Article II of the
code of Public Local Laws, to be used
as hereinafter directed, the board of
county road commissioners shall de-
posit all funds under its control in
some safe National Bank subject to it's