1468 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

Ibid, sec. 177C.

451. All contracts or agreements for the appointment or
employment of road supervisors by the county commissioners
shall be made in writing, in duplicate, upon uniform blanks pro-
vided for the purpose, and shall show as nearly as may be the
mileage of each piece of road covered by such contract or
employment, the character of the work to be done upon such
road and the total price to be charged; the distance to be
repaired with stone, if any, the character of such stone work
and the contract price of same, and the name of the election dis-
trict within which the road lies; one duplicate of said agree-
ment shall" be delivered to the supervisor or contractor and the
other shall be filed immediately with the treasurer of the county.

1908, ch. 113, sec. 177D.

452. The county commissioners are authorized and empow-
ered to levy and cause to be collected from the property owners
of any election district listed as provided in section 450 of this
article, a special tax for securing by condemnation or otherwise
and permanently improving, draining, grading, resurfacing or
macadamizing any road or roads or toll pike or toll pikes within
such election district; provided, that no such special levy shall
be made on the property of such election district unless said
county commissioners are petitioned in writing, not later than
April 15 preceding the annual levy for such procuring and
improvement of a road or roads, or toll pike or toll pikes therein
named, and indicating the desire for a special tax upon the
property of such election district for such purpose or purposes,
and signed by such number of citizens and taxpayers of said
election district as may satisfy said county commissioners of
the fact that there is a general public demand on the part of
the citizens and taxpayers of said election district for such road
procurement and special improvement and for such special levy,
and where said county commissioners are so petitioned to secure
and permanently improve a road or toll pike lying partly in two
or more election districts by citizens and taxpayers of each
of said districts in which said road or toll pike may lie, said
county commissioners may levy and cause to be collected from
the property owners of each of such election districts a special
tax for such purposes which shall be apportioned as nearly as
may be according to the respective interests of such election dis-
trict in said road or toll pike, but no such levy for such special
road procurement or improvement shall be made on the prop-
erty of any district or districts unless notice of the intention
of said county commissioners to make such special levy, the
purpose or purposes therefor, the amount thereof, and the