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assessable property in Allegany County not less than forty thousand dol-
lars for the use of the road directors of Allegany County, which shall be
collected as other taxes are collected, and to the extent of such levy the
County Treasurer of Allegany County shall honor the drafts to be signed
by the chairman of such road directors, and to be countersigned by the
road engineer; but this act shall not be construed as depriving the County
Commissioners of such power as they may possess of appropriating sums,
of money to the different incorporated towns of the county for road im-
provements; and said County Commissioners are further directed by their
annual levy for the year 1912 to levy upon the assessable property of
Allegany County an additional sum of twenty-five thousand dollars and
by their annual levy for the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, a like sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars in each of said years for the use of the road
directors of such county in the building of permanent roads therein, as
hereinafter set forth, under the so-called Shoemaker Law, it being the
intention of this Act to place in the hands of said road directors the said
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per year for said years to enable said
road directors to build permanent roads under said Shoemaker Law, and
to receive such contribution to the roads of Allegany County from the
State of Maryland as may be possible under said Shoemaker Law. Pro-
vided, however, that the said County Commissioners shall not be required
to levy in any of said years for such permanent road improvements, any
sum in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars, and that such road directors
shall only be allowed in the building of permanent roads under said Shoe-
maker Law to expend the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per
year for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914, and that said sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars to be levied as aforesaid for the year 1915 shall be used
by said road directors in paying off and discharging bonds which they
are hereinafter authorized and empowered to issue. And if it shall so
happen that in making such permanent road improvements, short sections
of such permanent roads shall be narrower in width than required by the
State law providing for the payment of half the cost thereof, or that por-
tion of said road shall be otherwise disqualified for State aid, then upon
certificate to such effect of the road engineer of Allegany County, the
respective sums of money which such narrow or disqualified roads may
have cost may be paid out of the levy herein provided for permanent road
work, even though the State may refuse to accord its aid thereto.
Symons v. Road Directors, 105 Md. 256.

1904, ch. 262, sec. 216F. 1906, ch. 138, sec. 216F. 1912, ch. 74, sec. 216F.

548.* For the purpose of enabling said road directors to permanently

improve under said Shoemaker Law certain designated sections of roads

in Allegany County during the years 1912, 1913 and 1914 as aforesaid,

and to receive as much State aid in such improvements as possible under

*Title and enacting clause of ch. 74, 1912, make no reference to sec. 216F, but it
la contained in body of Act.