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sources; and said Commissioners shall not order to be paid from any
district road fund or from the General Road and Bridge Fund of the
county any sum in excess of any of said funds, and to this end the chief
clerk and auditor of said Commissioners shall compile and place before
the Commissioners at each regular meeting a detailed statement of the
amounts expended from each fund since the beginning of the fiscal road
year, which, for the purposes of this Act, shall be January first of each
year, and the amount to the credit of the general and each of the district
road funds on the basis of the entire levy for such purposes for such year.
A copy of each of said detailed statements at the time of delivery to the
County Commissioners shall be left in the office of the Roads Engineer.

Section 3, Acts 1920, ch. 4, states that the Act shall not affect any ordinance,
rule, regulation or system relating to the public roads and bridge and bridges
done, promulgated or adopted by the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
which is not inconsistent with its terms.

1904, ch. 465. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 350. 1914, ch. 465. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 505.

1928, sec. 594.

594. Whenever the owners of property binding upon any public road
or street may desire to have the same improved to an extent beyond that
contemplated by the County Commissioners, then if the owners of two-
thirds of the lineal feet of property binding on such road or street shall
petition the County Commissioners for such improvement and deposit
with the County Commissioners a sufficient sum of money, the same to
be determined by the said Commissioners, to cover the cost of necessary
surveys and other necessary expenses of preliminary examination, it shall
be the duty of the said Commissioners to appoint three examiners—one
to be selected by the petitioners, one to be a member of the Board of
County Commissioners and the other the Roads Engineer of the county—
to examine into and report upon the need for such improvement and the
cost thereof; and if the County Commissioner shall determine, after such
report thereon, that such improvement should be made it shall determine
the amount to be appropriated from the road moneys of the county or
district for such improvement and what proportion of the cost shall be
paid by the petitioners and others interested in the work, such proportion
not to be less than 15 per cent, nor more than 50 per cent, of such cost,
aud shall have the power to determine what individuals are to be dam-
aged and what individuals are to be benefited thereby and the amount
of such individual damage and benefit, and to allow and assess the same;
provided the amount of individual damage and individual benefit shall
not be finally fixed until notice shall be given to the person to be affected
and to have the opportunity to be heard, such person to have the right to
appeal from the final decision of the County Commissioners to the Circuit
Court for the county. When all the assessments for benefits made by
the County Commissioners shall have been paid into the county treasury,
and not until then, the improvement petitioned for and determined upon
shall be made.