The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-05-08

by Chapter 80 of the Acts or l9lO, snail
immedi .tely upon the passage of this
Act, pay over to the Board Of County
Commissioners all sums Of money on
deposit to the credit of said Beard or
Road Directors or in hands or control
individually or otherwise. which are
part of the road and bridge funds re-
ceived by said Board of Road Directors
from the County Commissioners or from
the Board of Liquor License Commits
sioners of Prince Georges County and
said Board of Road Directors and Board
Of County Commissioners shall pay over
to the Board of County Commissioners
the amount on deposit to the joint
credit of the said Board of Directors
and the Board of County Commission
ers, said fund being known as IKE
demption and Interest Account and
Equipment Fund" and said Board
of Road Directors shall Immediately,
after the passage of this Act, surrender
to the Board of Road Directors hereby
created all personal property, equip
ment, machinery, etc, which has been
purchased by them or by the hcao
Engineer. mentioned in said Act OF 1910.
from time to time for the use OF the
public highways of said County. =.
SEC. 285. All monies for the use OF
roads and bridges in Prince Georges
County from whatsoevr source the SO me
NAV be derived shall be deposited by
the Board of County Commissioners in
one or more banks of said County to
the credit of said Board, specially as
County road funds. The total sum so
received shall be used as follows:
The Board of County Commissioners
shall first deposit to the credit of q
separate account, to be known as the
Redemption and Interest Account"
in some bank located in Prince Georges
County a sum sufficient to meet the
payment of principal and interest on
the bonds authorized under Sections
2S7 and 2S8 of this Article in order
that the said bonds way be redeemed
and cancelled and the interest thereon
paid as prescribed therein. They shall
then put aside. as general fund,
sufficient money to pay their own COM
pensation for the duties imposed upon
them under this Act. which compensa-
ton shall be $500 90 per pear each to
pay the salary of the Clerk and Secre-
tary to the Board of the Road Directors.
which shall net be more than $500 90
per year, to pay the salary of the six
Road Directors which snail be $500
per year each and to pay such other
amounts as may be otherwise properly
payable by them out of such fund, under
| the provisions of this Act, including
the rebate to incorporated towns.
They shall then divide the remainder
of said money into six equa! parts each
of which parts shall be thereafter de-
voted exclusively to one OF the six
Road Districts and each of these parts
a II ha tho, hx, RI
the Election Districts or parts Of Dis
tricts in the Road District to which
said part belongs, each Election Dis
| trict receiving as nearly as possible che
proportion of said money which its road
mileage bears to the total road mileage
of its Road District and after such ap-
portionments are made no portion of
said money shall be diverted from the
Election District to which it has been
apportioned. In case there shall not
be sufficient money available in any
year to start work before the amount
of the levy for such year is available.
the Board of County Commissioners
are hereby authorized to use any sur
plus funds which they may have in and
during the months of March and April
up to the sum of $l0,000.OO. In case
such funds are useu the B )ard of Coun-
ty Commissioners shall repay the same
out of the first moneys received from
the road lew of that year. Each Road
Director shall be allowed to hire teams
for emergency work in his Road Dis
trict, but shall not use in this way an
amount greater than 5000 90 in any
one year in his entire road d strict.
SEC 2S6. The Board of C,uaty
Commissioners are authorized at any
time, when in their judgment it may
seem bes', TO employ an Engineer fer
the purpose Of constructing roads or
bridges in any of the Election D stricts
of Prince Georges County. A ny ccm-
pensation paid such Engineer so en-
ployed shall be charged to the am punt
apportioned to said Election District
and paid thereout.
SEC. g. And be it further enacted
that this Act shall take effect from che
date of its passage"
Approved April Is, 1914.
P. L. GOLDSBOROUGH,
Governor.
JESSE D. PRICE.
President of the Senate
JAMES Nice. Triple.
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the Secretary of the Senate.
Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing
is a true copy of an Act Of the General
Assembly Of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1914.
JOHN R. SULLIVAN,
Secretary OF the Senate