EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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shall be set apart as a general road and bridge fund and to be

applied to the general use and benefits of the roads and bridges

of the county as directed, and a portion for special purposes

or among the several districts by the Highways Commission,

and the remaining eighty per cent, of the tax so levied and

collected for roads and bridges shall be set apart as special

road and bridge fund for the use and benefit of the election

district from which it has been collected, and for no other

purpose; the said Highways Commission shall not at any time

appropriate any part of such general fund for the improvement

of any particular road in excess of three thousand dollars per

mile, unless it be for the construction and repair of a bridge.

Whenever the people of any election district may desire a

special road fund for such district in excess of that levied for,

they may petition the Highways Commission for a special road

Special road

tax for such district, not to exceed ten cents on the one hun-

tax.

dred dollars of the assessable property of such district, which

petition must represent two-fifths of the taxable property basis

of such district, and when such petition is presented to the

Commission it shall be determined by it whether to grant the

same or not, provided notice of such petition shall be given by

publication in two weekly newspapers published in Baltimore

County, and the taxpayers of the district be given an oppor-

tunity to be heard, and if granted, the Commission shall deter-

mine what special rate, not greater than ten cents on the one

hundred dollars of property in the district shall be allowed,

and report their determination to the County Commissioners

with demand that the same be levied as a special road tax for

such district; and it shall thereupon become the duty of said

County Commissioners to levy for and collect such special tax

To collect

as other taxes, and when collected the same shall be used for

special tax.

the exclusive benefit of the roads and bridges of the election

district from which collected. When there shall not be suffi-

cient money in the county treasury set apart as a general road

and bridge fund to meet the demand for any emergency, the

Highways Commission shall have the power to borrow money,

not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in one year, on the

credit of the county, to be paid out of road money provided

by the next succeeding levy. All sums so levied for road pur-

poses and all sums otherwise collectible for such purposes

under the provisions of this or other Acts, shall be collected

County Treas-

or received by the Treasurer of Baltimore County, and by him

urer to collect
sums levied.

placed to the credit of the Highways Commission of Baltimore

County and paid out on the order of said Commission as herein

provided, and shall not be paid out by him for any other pur-

pose.