3554 ARTICLE 16.

submit the question of the issue of such special improvement bonds pro-
vided for in each of said resolutions to the registered and qualified voters
of such election districts who are taxpayers in such election district or

districts, at a special election to be held between the hours of 8 o'clock
A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M., at the regular place of holding elections in
such election district or districts, on such date as may be designated by
said county commissioners, with such notice and publication, and in such
manner as hereinbefore in this section last provided; any registered, quali-
fied voter whose wife is a taxpayer in said election district or districts,
and any registered or qualified voter who has an interest in any unsettled

estate which pays taxes in such election district or districts shall be deemed
a taxpayer within the meaning of this section; no person paying a dog
tax shall, for that reason, be deemed a taxpayer within the meaning of this
section, and the ballots for or against such special improvement bonds

shall be printed and so arranged that each of such resolutions of said

county commissioners may be voted upon separately, and the ballots so

cast shall be counted by the judges of said elections, who shall, within
three days thereafter, make a written return of such votes to the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, and said clerk shall record

said returns among the records of his office; and if it shall appear that a
majority of the votes cast in any election district shall have been for a
resolution of said county commissioners providing for the issue of special
improvement bonds for such procurement and improvement of a road or
toll pike lying wholly within such district, then the clerk of said court
shall prepare a certificate proclaiming the result of such election on such
resolution in such district, and cause said certificate to be published once
in one or more newspapers published in said county; and such resolution

of said county commissioners providing for the issue of such special im-

provement bonds to pay the cost of such road or toll pike so covered by
such resolution shall become operative, and the procurement and improve-
ment of the road or toll pike specified in such resolution shall be executed
and the bonds issued as herein specified; the said special improvement
bonds and interest thereon shall be paid by a special tax of apportionately
equal annual instalments to be levied for a specified number of years, not

exceeding twenty-five, upon the taxable property of such election district;
the said special tax shall be a lien upon the taxable property of such elec-
tion district upon which it is so levied, and shall be collected in the manner

provided for the collection of county taxes of said county; if it shall
appear that a majority of the votes cast in each of two or more election

districts shall be for a resolution of said county commissioners providing

for the issue of special improvement bonds for such procurement and im-
provement of a road or toll pike lying partly in each of such election dis-
tricts, such resolutions shall become operative in the same manner and
under the same terms and conditions as herein provided for special im-

provement bonds to pay the cost of a road or toll pike lying wholly in one
election district, except that such special improvement tax to carry such
special improvement bonds and pay the interest thereon shall be levied