STATE ROADS COMMISSION— (Continued)

BUDGET FOE THE STATE EOADS COMMISSION OF MARYLAND
FOB THE BIENNIUM 1948-1949

Account
Number	Account Title	For the Fiscal Year 1948	For the Fiscal Year 1949
	receipts of the One-half Cent (1/2c.) Gasoline Tax,
	after refund exemptions, but before the other de-
	ductions as hereinafter provided, there shall be paid
	from the tax each year, provided the State Roads
	Commission shall demand a payment each year, an
	amount equal to the Debt Service cost for each
	. year, in the event that the net toll incomes from
	the operation of the Chesapeake Bay Ferry System
	shall be insufficient for the payment of Debt obliga-
	tions on State Roads Commission of Maryland Che-
	apeake Bay Ferry Revenue Bonds of 1941, author-
	ized and issued in accordance with the provisions
	of Sections 140-A to 140- M, both inclusive, of
	Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
	(1939 Edition). Then there shall be paid each
	year the Debt Service, both principal and interest
	on Chesapeake Bay Ferry System Improvement
	Bonds, authorized by Sections 140-N to 140-U, both		»
	inclusive, of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of
	Maryland. The amounts named herein are com-
	puted as estimates only, it being the intention
	that these appropriations shall be 100% of the
	revenue aforesaid, and it being further the inten-
	tion that should the proceeds of this tax exceed
	the amounts herein set forth, then such excess
	shall not revert to the General Fund of the State,
	but shal] be set over to the use of the State Roads
	Commission to be applied and administered for
	those purposes and in like manner as the sums
	hereby requested. It is likewise hereby further
	provided that the whole or so much of this fund, as
	may be required, shall be expended by the Commis-
	sion in the relocation of roads for the purpose of
	accomplishing the elimination of grade crossings,
	the reconstructon (and relocation of bridge struc-
	tures and/or the construction) or reconstruction
	of major projects on the State System of Roads,
	and/or the whole or part thereof to be used in the
	equalization of Regular Federal Aid, and to be
	applied and expended in like manner as Regular
	Federal Aid is applied to the State System of Roads
	and Bridges.
	To the State Roads Commission, to be used solely
	as partial contribution of funds in equalization of
	Regular Federal Aid of 1948 ...................	$1,267,801.40	$1,305,923.20