2834 ARTICLE 91.

An. Code, sec. 39. 1908, ch. 141, sec. 32G.

35. The commission herein provided for is authorized in its discretion
to call upon the state geological and economic survey commission for such
plats, surveys and information as it may desire, and may also, with the
consent of the Maryland geological and economic survey, turn over to said
survey the work of awarding any contracts for work under this act to-
gether with the supervision if such work under such contracts so awarded
by said Maryland geological and economic survey, or the state road com-
mission may authorize said state geological and economic survey, with the
consent of said survey, in accordance with the powers already in it vested,
to itself perform any work determined upon by said commission, without
an award of a contract for the same to a contractor, if in the judgment of
the commission such work will be so done better or more advantageously
to the State; and the commission herein provided for is authorized to reim-
burse the state geological and economic survey commission for any and all
expense it may be put to and for any and all work done upon such terms
as said two commissions may agree to be right and proper in the premises.

An. Code, sec. 51. 1910, ch. 116, sec. 32S (p. 306).

36. The state roads commission is hereby authorized to establish a
stone-crushing plant, or plants, to produce road material available most
economically for water or other transportation, and shall have the power
to rent, purchase or condemn stone quarries, gravel, clay, sand and shell
deposits with rights of way thereto, and wharves and landings and switches
for shipping or receiving material, and storage places, and to do all other
things necessary and proper in connection with the purchasing, 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.

An. Code, sec. 52. 1910, ch. 116, sec. 32T (p. 307).

37. Whenever any highway constructed under the provisions of this
act shall pass through any municipality, and the state roads commission
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 com-
ply 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 municipality.

An. Code, sec. 60. 1910, ch. 116, sec. 32Z2 (p. 311).

38. Whenever any state road crosses the grade of the line of any rail-
road worked by steam or other power, the state roads commission shall have
the power to contract with such railroad for the construction of any bridge,
archway, or culvert that may be needed for the purpose of any over-grade
or under-grade crossing; and to provide by contract or otherwise for the