SURVEYOR AND STATE SURVEY. 2843

therein and allowing for the amount of the expense incurred by the board
of county commissioners for surveys, plans, specifications, printing and
advertising, and stating the amount due, respectively, from the State of
Maryland on the one hand and the county commissioners of any county
on the other hand, and which said amount due from each shall be one-half
of the cost of the work under the contract, and of all other proper expendi-
tures, and thereupon, and within ten days after receiving such certificate
from the state roads commission, the board of county commissioners in
any county shall inform the state roads commission, in writing, of any
objections or exceptions to the accuracy of the account, and of the amount
found to be due from such board of county commissioners, and such objec-
tions and exceptions to said account shall thereupon be promptly adjusted;
provided that during the ten days allowed to any county for such exceptions
it shall not be necessary for the comptroller of the State to make any
payment upon such certificate, nor shall he make any such payment until
the state roads commission shall have acted upon any exception or objection
which shall be made in behalf of any county; provided, further, that the
board of county commissioners of any county may waive, in writing, the
right to except and object; and the proportion of the amount due from
any county shall be promptly paid to the contractor or other persons to
whom it may be due, as finally certified by the state roads commission and
the amount due on behalf of the State and of the state roads commission
payable out of the appropriations hereunder, or other moneys available to
pay the same, shall be thereupon certified to the comptroller of the State of
Maryland, who shall promptly pay the same to the contractor or other
persons to whom the said amounts may be due, it being the intent and
purpose of this section that the cost of the state-aided roads provided for
in this article shall be equally divided between the State and the county in
which such roads may be located; that such cost shall be promptly paid,
both by the State and the county, as the work progresses, and is approved
by the state roads commission; which said state roads commission, for
the purpose of certifying the amount due from the State and any county,
shall have the right to reject or allow any exception or objection made
as aforesaid in behalf of any county.

When comptroller is authorized to pay state's one-half of costs and expenses to
county commissioners. This section referred to in construing sec. 50. Frederick
County v. Fout, 110 Md. 173 (decided prior to act of 1910, ch. 217).
See notes to sec. 44.

An. Code, sec. 76. 1904, sec. 43. 1904, ch. 225, sec. 11. 1910, ch. 217, sec. 43 (p. 319).

55. No portion of the cost of acquiring land for any road or any
damages caused by the construction or improvement of any road shall be
paid by the State.

See notes to sec. 44.

An. Code, sec. 77. 1904, sec. 44. 1904, ch. 225, sec. 12. 1910, ch. 217, sec. 44 (p. 319).

56. No one county of the State shall receive in any year a larger
proportion of the total amount appropriated by this sub-title for said year
than the proportion which the then existing miles of public road in said