734 ARTICLE 3.

other money receivable by Baltimore County for road and bridge purposes
including all money payable to Baltimore County by the State of Mary-
land for automobile licenses and all fines and forfeitures payable to Bal-
timore County and all taxes collected on stocks and bonds not apportioned
or assessed to any district and formerly known as the "Unapportioned
Fund" shall be and constitute a fund to be known as the General Road
and Bridge Fund and may be expended for any lawful road or bridge
purpose anywhere in Baltimore County and for no other purpose or pur-
poses whatsoever. Whenever the people of any election district may desire
a special road fund for such district in excess of that provided by the gen-
eral rate of tax levied for, they may petition the said County Commis-
sioners for a special road tax for such district, not to exceed twenty cents
on the one hundred dollars of the assessable property of such district,
which petition must represent three-fifths of the taxable basis of such
district; and when such petition is presented to the said Commissioners
it shall be determined by them whether to grant the same or not, provided
notice of such petition shall be given by publication in two weekly news-
papers published in Baltimore County and the taxpayers of the district
be given an opportunity to be heard; and, if granted, the said Commis-
sioners shall determine what special rate, not greater than twenty cents
on the one hundred dollars of property in the district, shall be allowed, and
it shall thereupon become the duty of said County Commissioners to levy
for and collect such special tax as other taxes, and when collected the
same shall be used for the exclusive benefit of the roads and bridges of
the election district from which collected. When there shall not be suffi-
cient money in the county treasury set apart as General Road and Bridge
Fund to meet the demand for an emergency, the County Commissioners
of Baltimore County shall have the power to borrow money, not exceed-
ing twenty thousand dollars in one year, on the credit of the county, to
be paid out of road money provided by the next succeeding levy. All
bills and claims on account of the roads and bridges of the county, before
payment, shall receive the endorsement of the Roads Engineer and shall
be passed upon by the County Commissioners at a regular or adjourned
meeting, and no such bill or claim involving the expenditure of more than
one hundred dollars, and no contract or agreement involving a larger
expenditure from the road moneys of the county shall be allowed or made
except by a majority vote of said County Commissioners. All claims
allowed and passed as aforesaid shall be marked "approved" by the presi-
dent and chief clerk and auditor of said County Commissioners and when
so approved an order for the amount of the same shall be drawn on the
County Treasurer, who shall pay said amount out of the proper funds.

1904, ch. 465. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 349. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 504. 1914, ch. 465.
1920, ch. 4, sec. 474. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 593.

593. Said Commissioners shall not expend or contract to expend in
any one year more money than shall have been provided by the levy or
otherwise for road and bridge expenses during such year, and shall incur
no debts not payable out of the funds derived from such levy or other