MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3553

the annual levy for such procuring and improvement of a road or roads,
or toll pike or toll pikes therein named, and indicating the desire for a
special tax upon the property of such election district for such purpose
or purposes, and signed by such number of citizens and taxpayers of said
election district as may satisfy said county commissioners of the fact
that there is a general public demand on the part of the citizens and tax-
payers of said election district for such road procurement and special
improvement and for such special levy, and where said county commis-
sioners are so petitioned to secure and permanently improve a road or
toll pike lying partly in two or more election districts by citizens and tax-
payers of each of said districts in which said road or toll pike may lie,
said county commissioners may levy and cause to be collected from the
property owners of each of such election districts a special tax for such
purposes which shall be apportioned as nearly as may be according to the
respective interests of such election district in said road or toll pike, but
no such levy for such special road procurement or improvement shall be
made on the property of any district or districts unless notice of the inten-
tion of said county commissioners to make such special levy, the purpose
or purposes therefor, the amount thereof, and the approximate effect of
such levy on the tax rate of such district or districts, shall be published iu
one or more newspapers of said county for two successive weeks desig-
nating the date upon which the said county commissioners shall meet for
the purpose of hearing objections to such special levy; whenever it shall
appear to said county commissioners from such petition or petitions of
the citizens and taxpayers of one or more election districts that there is
a general public demand for so securing and permanently improving a
road or roads, or toll pike or toll pikes lying in any election district or
lying partly in two or more election districts, as herein stated, but that
the levy of a special tax upon the property of such district or districts for
such purpose or purposes would too heavily burden the taxpayers of said
district or districts, they, the said county commissioners, are authorized
and empowered, to issue and place special road improvement bonds of
said county to cover the costs of such "procurement and improvement of
such road or toll pike," in such district or districts, the amount of such
bonds not to exceed ten per cent, of the taxable basis of such election dis-
trict or districts; provided, that they, the said county commissioners, shall
prepare resolutions specifying the nature and estimated cost of such spe-
cial road procurement and improvements, manner of issue and payment by
special improvement bonds specifically designating the election district or
districts in which property is to be taxed to carry said bonds and pay the
interest thereon; said proposed resolutions shall be posted in at least five
conspicuous places' in each of the election districts affected thereby, and
published once a week for three consecutive weeks in one or more news-
papers of said county, with a notice of a meeting of said county commis-
sioners at the expiration of that period, to hear any persons that may
object thereto; after such hearing the said county commissioners may, if
they deem proper, pass such resolution or resolutions, and shall thereafter