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directed to levy the State taxes to be collected according to law for the
year 1913, and annually thereafter, a tax of one cent on each one hundred
dollars ($100) to aid in the maintenance and repair of the State roads, and
the Comptroller of the Treasury shall levy the same tax rate on the shares
of the capital stock of all banks, State and national, and other incorporated
institutions or companies of this State, the shares of whose capital stock
are liable by law to assessment and taxation, to aid in the maintenance
and repair of State roads in this State. Said taxes shall be collected as
other State taxes are now collected, and shall be paid into the State Trea-
sury, the Comptroller being hereby required to keep the same separate and
distinct, to be known as " The Road Repair Fund," said fund to be paid
by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller, to and upon
the order of the State Roads Commission, semi-annually, viz: July 1st
and January 1st, in each year, the money so received by the State Roads
Commission to be used by such commission in the various counties for the
maintenance of State roads.

An. Code, sec. 71. 1904, sec. 38. 1904, ch. 225, sec. 6. 1910, ch. 217, sec. 38 (p. 317).

1916, ch. 645, sec. 71.

50. After the receipt of such plans and specifications and estimate by
the Board of County Commissioners of any County in Maryland from said
State Roads Commission, said Board of County Commissioners, if they
elect to proceed further hereunder, as hereinbefore provided in Section 43,
shall advertise for two consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper pub-
lished in such County, and also during the time of such publication in such
County newspaper, at least three consecutive times in at least one news-
paper published in Baltimore City, for bids for such road building or
improvement, setting forth the place where such road is to be built or
improved, and giving a general description of said proposed work, and
stating that sealed proposals for the performance of said proposed work
in accordance with the plans and specifications will be received until a day
named in the advertisement, provided that nothing in this Section shall
require the County Commissioners of any County, upon the petition of
such persons to advertise for work to be done under the provisions of this
sub-title to an amount greater than twenty-five per centum of the road levy
of said County; and the Board of County Commissioners shall further
furnish a copy of the said specifications for such proposed work to any
prospective bidder who may request the same; and the said Board shall
reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to do the work according
to said plans and specifications by such arrangement as they may deem best.

The proviso in this section with reference to county commissioners not being re-
quired to advertise for work to a greater amount than twenty-five per centum of
the road levy, refers to whole estimated cost of the road, and not merely to ultimate
net cost to county. In determining whether cost of work will be greater than twenty-
five per cent, of road levy, commissioners must be guided by estimate of economic
commission to be furnished under sec. 45. The county commissioners might, in their
discretion, advertise although estimated cost was greater than twenty-five per cent,
of road levy, if they thought said estimate was too high; risk thus taken. Mandamus
refused. Frederick County v. Fout, 110 Md. 167 (decided prior to act of 1910, ch. 217).

See notes to sec. 44.