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do all other things necessary and proper in connection with the pur-
chasing, producing, accumulating and distributing such road material,
including the hire and purchase of any and all means of land' and water
transportation for the same.

1910, ch. 116, sec. 32 T (p. 307).

52. Whenever any highway constructed under the provisions of
this act shall pass through any municipality, and the state roads com-
mission shall be requested, by proper municipal authority, to construct
a road within the municipal limits more costly than a macadamized
road, then, and in every such case, upon receipt of the difference between
the cost of a macadamized road and the cost of such a road as may be
desired, it shall be lawful for, but not obligatory upon the state roads
commission to comply with such request and to proceed therein under
the powers and the provisions of this act; provided that the cost of
repairing and maintaining any such road shall be borne by said munic-
ipality.

1910, ch. 116. sec. 32 u (p. 307).

53. For the purpose of providing for the expenditures of making
and maintaining the highways of this State as provided in this act, a
loan is hereby created, to be called "The Public Highways 1910," to
the amount of one million dollars; the said loan shall bear date as
follows: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be known as series
"A," January 1, 1911; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be
known as series "B," January 1, 1912; two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars, to be known as series "C," January 1, 1913, and two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be known as series "D," January
1, 1914, and shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the governor,
the comptroller and the treasurer of this State, or a majority of them,
not to exceed four per centum per annum, payable on the first day of
January and July in each year; and the said loan, and every part
thereof, and the interest payable thereon, shall be and remain exempt
from state, county and municipal taxation; and the principal amount
of said loan shall be payable fifteen years after the date of said respec-
tive series, but shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the State of Mary-
land after ten years from the date of issue.

1910, ch. 116, sec. 32 v (p. 307).

54. The governor, comptroller of the treasury and treasurer or a
majority of them are hereby authorized and directed to have prepared
proper certificates of indebtedness of the State, in good and sufficient
form, to aggregate the amount of one million of dollars as evidence of
such loan; such certificates of indebtedness shall bear date as provided
in section 53, and shall not be issued in less sums than one thousand
dollars; each of said certificates shall be signed by the treasurer of the
State and countersigned by the comptroller of the treasury, and shall
bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, paya-

See foot-note, page 1984.