The township board of highway commissioners, and the board of county commissioners, to which funds are transferred by a drainage district under the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 24-499, may proceed promptly with the purchase of rock or gravel, and with the distribution of the same upon public highways within said drainage district boundaries, in said township and county, without having to comply with other provisions of statute requiring the budgeting of funds, prior to expenditure thereof.