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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

197. All bills or claims on account of the roads and bridges

Bills to be

of the county after having received the endorsement of the

passed upon
by Commis-

Roads Engineer as hereinbefore provided, shall be passed upon

sion.

by the Commission at a regular or adjourned meeting, and

no such claim involving the expenditure of more than one

hundred dollars, and no contract or agreement involving a

larger expenditure from the roads moneys of the county, and

no appropriation of money from the general roacl and bridge

fund for any purpose, shall be allowed or made except by a

majority vote of all the members of the Commission ; all claims

allowed and passed as above provided shall be marked "Ap-

proved" by the president and secretary of the Commission,

and when so approved an order for the amount of the same

shall be drawn on the County Treasurer, who shall pay said

amount out of the road funds placed to the credit of the High-

ways Commission as provided in the next preceding section

of this Act, and charge the said amount to the account of the

Restricting

Commission. Said Commission shall not expend or contract

expenditures.

to expend in any one year more money than shall have been

provided by levy or otherwise for road and bridge expenses

during such year, and shall incur no debts not payable out of

the funds derived from such levy or other sources; and said

Commission shall not order to be paid from any district road

fund or from the general road and bridge fund of the county,

any sum in excess of any of said funds; and to this end the

secretary of said Commission shall compile and place before

the Commission at each regular meeting a detailed statement of

the amounts expended from each fund since the beginning of

the fiscal year, which, for the purposes of this Act, shall be

January first of each year, and the amount to the credit of the

general and each of the district road funds on the basis of the

For road pur-
poses.

entire levy for such purposes for such year, and in addition

thereto shall append a statement to be furnished by the County

Treasurer for that purpose, and the amount then actually in

the hands of the County Treasurer to the credit of the Com-

mission for road purposes at the date of such statement.

198. Whenever the owners of property binding upon any

Petition of

public road or street may desire to have the same improved to

property own-
ers.

an extent beyond that contemplated by the Highways Com-

mission, then if the owners of two-thirds of the lineal feet of

property binding on such road or street shall petition the

Commission for such improvement and deposit with the Com-

mission a sufficient sum of money, the same to be determined

by the Commission, to cover the cost of necessary surveys and

other necessary expenses of preliminary examination, it shall