1470 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

pays taxes in such election district or districts shall be deemed
a taxpayer within the meaning of this section; no person
paying a dog tax shall, for that reason, be deemed a taxpayer
within the meaning of this section, and the ballots for or
against such special improvement bonds shall be printed and
so arranged that each of such resolutions of said county com-
missioners may be voted upon separately, and the ballots
so cast shall be counted by the judges of said elections,
who shall, within three days thereafter, make a written return
of such votes to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, and said clerk shall record said returns among the
records of his office; and if it shall appear that a majority of
the votes cast in any election district shall have been for a reso-
lution of said county commissioners providing for the issue
of special improvement bonds for such procurement and im-
provement of a road or toll pike lying wholly within such dis-
trict, then the clerk of said court shall prepare a certificate pro-
claiming the result of such election on such resolution in such
district, and cause said certificate to be published once in one
or more newspapers published in said county; and such reso-
lution of said county commissioners providing for the issue of
such special improvement bonds to pay the cost of such road
or toll pike so covered by such resolution shall become operative,
and the procurement and improvement of the road or toll pike
specified in such resolution shall be executed' and the bonds
issued as herein specified; the said special improvement bonds
and interest thereon shall be paid by a special tax of appor-
tionately equal annual instalments to be levied for a specified
number of years, not exceeding twenty-five, upon the taxable
property of such election district; the said special tax shall be
a lien upon the taxable property of such election district upon
which it is so levied, and shall be collected in the manner pro-
vided for the collection of county taxes of said county; if it
shall appear that a majority of the votes cast in each of two
or more election districts shall be for a resolution of said county
commissioners providing for the issue of special improvement
bonds for such procurement and improvement of a road or toll
pike lying partly in each of such election districts, such resolu-
tions shall become operative in the same manner and under the
same terms and conditions as herein provided for special
improvement bonds to pay the cost of a road or toll pike lying
wholly in one election district, except that such special improve-
ment tax to carry such special improvement bonds and pay the
interest thereon shall be levied upon the property of the several
election districts so voting in proportion to the respective inter-