Section 291. Compensation of supervisor and town clerk

Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section twenty-seven of the town law, members of boards of
  supervisors shall be allowed and paid the compensation provided by  law,
  for  services  of  members  of  boards  of  supervisors while serving as
  members of a committee known as the highway  officials  of  the  county,
  pursuant  to  section one hundred and ninety-five of this chapter, or as
  members of a road or highway committee while visiting and  inspecting  a
  road  being constructed and improved under the provisions of section one
  hundred and ninety-four of this chapter and  advising  with  the  county
  superintendent  of  highways  about the manner in which the work of such
  construction and improvement is being done or ought to be done, and  its
  acceptance  by  the  board,  or  as  members  of  a highway committee in
  acquiring land for rights of way, or spoil banks, or for the purposes of
  obtaining gravel, stone or other material when required pursuant to  the
  provisions  of  sections  thirty,  thirty-one  and  thirty-two  of  this
  chapter.