202 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



to be completed annually. But no roads shall be by them designated for 

 improvement which is [are] not already established or which does [do] 

 not now extend beyond the road district limits. Nor shall any public 

 highway within the corporate limits of city or village within such road 

 district be so designated or improved unless such road extends to and 

 beyond the said road district continuously. 



[Employment of engineer and assistants.] Such road commis- 

 sioners shall have the power to employ a competent civil engineer, and 

 such assistants for him as they may deem necessary, who shall mak a 

 correct map of the established roads of such road district, designating 

 plainly which have been by such commissioners selected for improve- 

 ment, and also profiles of such roads showing the grades thereof as they 

 then exist, as well as prepare such other information as may be required 

 by said commissioners, all of which shall be kept on file with the secre- 

 tary of said road commission for public inspection. 



(4757-7) SEC. 7. [Term ^f office of commissioners; oath.] The 

 commissioners so appointed sha 1 ! hold their office for a term of four 

 years, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take an 

 oath of office to honestly and impartially discharge their duties with a 

 view to the public welfare. 



[Compensation.] They shall receive as compensation for each 

 day actually employed the same compensation as township trustees. 



[Engineer's compensation.] Such engineer shall receive such 

 sum not exceeding four dollars per day as he may agree upon with said 

 road commissioners, and not to exceed one hundred dollars in any one 

 month. 



[How compensation paid.] The compensation of the commis- 

 sioners and engineer shall be paid out of the road fund, raised for the 

 purpose of said improvement, upon the order of the auditor of the 

 county after the allowance by the county commissioners. 



(4757-8) SEC. 8. [Selection of roads for improvement.] Imme- 

 mediately after the report of such road commissioners and the map and 

 profiles of such engineer have been filed, such road commissioners shall, 

 in determining which road shall be first improved of those designated, 

 select the most public roads of the road district both east and west and 

 north and south, and if, in their opinion it is not expedient to undertake 

 the improvement of such selected roads in all directions at one time, 

 they shall proceed to first improve the most prominent thoroughfare 

 in such district. 



(4757-9) SEC. 9. [County auditor ex officio member,] The 

 county auditor shall be ex officio member of said board but shall only 

 have a vote in case of a tie vote on any question before said board of 

 road commissioners. 



[Record kept by commissioners.] The said road commissioners 

 shall cause to be kept by the secretary or clerk of the board in a record 

 book to be provided by them for that purpose, a full and complete record 

 of their proceedings under this act relating to the improvements of all 

 public roads acted upon by them ; and also an accurate, separate account 

 of receipts and expenditures under its provisions ; 



[Payments for improvement.] And no money raised for the im- 

 provement of such roads shall be drawn from the treasury except ta 



