FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ering the same, and the probable cost thereof shall be sat-

isfied that the public interest will be promoted thereby, they

may direct the expenditure of an amount not exceeding

three hundred dollars per mile, provided the petitioner or

petitioners for such improvement shall first pay to the

county commissioners an amount equal to that appropriated

by the county commissioners, and all such money shall be

expended under the direction of the supervisor of the dis-

trict where the improvements are to be made.

SEC. 113. And be it enacted, That whenever any owner of

property in Howard Comity shall have opened, laid out, or

graded any avenue or road thirty feet wide for the public

dedication

use and convenience and is willing to dedicate the same

to the
public.

uses by a good and sufficient deed duly recorded the com-

missioners are hereby authorized to accept the same, if in

their opinion the same be necessary and convenient for public

use and upon such acceptance the said avenue or road so

dedicated shall be kept in good order and repair by the road

supervisors of the district in which it may be situate, pro-

vided however that before said road shall be accepted as

aforesaid, the said county commissioners shall satisfy them-

selves that said avenue or road is full thirty feet in width

and has been properly graded.

SEC. 115. Ana be it enacted, That whenever any doubt

exists as to the proper location and width of any road, the

Ascertain-

supervisor of the district, under the direction of the county

ment of
proper

commissioners may cause the same to be surveyed, and make

location.

such alterations as the public convenience may require, sub-

ject to the rights of any person to the provisions contained

in the laws for the opening of new roads.

SEC. 119 A. And be it further enacted, That on the first

Tuesday after the first Monday in November eighteen hun-

Vote for or
against

dred and ninety -two (1892), the same being the seventh day,

road law.

of said month, the Commissioners of Howard County shall

submit to the legal voters of Howard County, the question

whether they will vote for or against the making of a levy

on the assessable property of said county an additional tax of

not less than twenty cents nor more than thirty cents on the

hundred dollars for the use of the county roads ; and they

shall cause to be printed or written on the ballots to be used

at said election the words "For Road Law" "Against

Road Law," and if at said electiou any one or more of said

election districts shall vote in favor of said road law, less

than the whole number of said election districts, then said

law shall apply only to that or to those election districts, in

which a majority of the votes shall have been cast in favor