ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 747

Comptroller, and shall be allocated by the State Roads
Commission of Maryland to the counties of the State, in the
proportion which the public road mileage of the several
counties bears to the entire public road mileage in the
counties of the State, for the following uses and purposes:

(a) For the construction of Lateral Roads as a part of
the State Roads system. The State Roads Commission is
hereby authorized and directed to ask for bids and enter
into contracts in the usual form for the construction of
such Lateral Roads as the said Commission, after receiving
recommendations from the County Commissioners or
proper road authorities of the several counties, may from
time to time, under the provisions hereof, determine to
construct, said contracts to be made in the name of the
State Roads Commission, and to contain and be subject to
the same provisions now required by law for contracts for
the construction of public roads. The term "Lateral
Roads, " as used herein shall include bridges, and authority
is hereby given to the State Roads Commission to build
such bridges as it may decide to be a proper part of the
Lateral Roads System; such bridges to be charged against
the counties in which same are located, in the same manner
as are Lateral Roads.

(b) For the construction, reconstruction and main-
tenance of county roads or the streets of incorporated
towns, municipalities or special taxing areas located in the
respective counties of the State, and in connection there-
with to build and/or maintain any bridges on such roads
or streets.

(c) For debt service, that is to say, interest, sinking
fund or maturity requirements with respect to bonds or
other evidences of debt issued by the several counties,
municipalities, or special taxing areas, the proceeds of
which have been used for road or street improvement, pro-
vided such expenditure shall be made only after seeking
recommendations from the County Commissioners or other
duly constituted road or street authorities and action with
respect thereto as hereinafter provided.

Prior to the time each year when the annual tax levy is
made in each county, and upon the second Monday of each
year, and thereafter from time to time, the State Roads
Commission shall seek the recommendations of the County
Commissioners or other duly constituted public author-
ities of the several counties having jurisdiction over roads
and streets thereof with respect to the following matters,
to wit: