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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and when collected, to be used by the county commissioners ex-

clusively for the purchase of stone or other suitable hard ma-

terial for the purpose of macadamizing the counby roads of said

districts; provided, that this section shall only be applicable to

such of said districts from which fifty or more taxable residents

Macadam-
ize.

' of such districts representing at least one-sixth of the taxable

basis of such district shall, forty days prior to an annual levy,

petition the said county commissioners, asking such special levy

to be made; and provided, further, that the material so pur-

chased shall be used solely in the district fpom which the taxes

to purchase the same are collected; whenever such petition is filed

the county commissioners shall give notice of the filing thereof

by publication in two newspapers published in Baltimore county

for two successive weeks, immediately following the filing of such

petition, and if a petition signed by an equal or larger number of

tax-payers, residents of such districts representing a larger amount
of taxable property, be filed prior to such levy, objecting thereto.

then the commissioners shall refuse to make such additional

levy; and provided, further, that every tax-payer of said district

in which said special levy is made, shall have the privilege of

working out this special tax by hauling stones or other suitable

hard materials upon the county roads nearest their farms or resi-

dences, at such price per perch for the same as may be fixed by

the road commissioners for said district, subject to the approval

of the county commissioners; and said road commissioners im-

mediately after the levy in each year shall, subject to the appro-

May pay

val of the said county commissioners, fix a uniform price for said

in work.

materials, as far as practicable, and whenever they are satisfied

that any tax-payer has fully worked out his special road tax, they

shall cause the chairman of the road commissioners for said dis-

trict to give such tax-payer a certificate to that effect, which shall

be received by the treasurer and collector of taxes for Baltimore

county as so much money on account of said tax.

SEC. 199. That whenever twenty or more taxable inhabitants

of Baltimore county shall desire the opening of any new road, or

the alteration or closing of any old road or part of any old road,

they may make application in writing to the county commis-

sioners setting forth as near as may be the length and location of

the road so petitioned for, and the county commissioners shall

Petition.

give notice in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore

county for two successive weeks, that application has been made,

and examination granted to take place on the premises at a stated

time not less than ten days from the date of the last publication

of said notice, -and a copy of such notice shall be left with each

person through or along whose property the road petitioned for

will pass, or be publicly posted on said property at least ten days

before the examination takes place; upon such application being

made the county commissioners shall issue an order to three dis-