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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Purchase of

stone.

stone, or other hard material, to be used on roads in such man-
ner as the commissioners, with the assistance of the supervisor,
may determine, unless on application of taxpayers, resident in
the neighborhood, the commissioners may determine upon any
section of road to devote a larger proportion than one-fourth of
said fund to grading or other pressing need; and the County
Commissioners may, if it shall appear to be in the interest of
economy, purchase one or more stone crushers out of the fund
set apart as the general road and bridge fund, for the purpose
of supplying stone for the use on the. roads, to be operated in
such manner as they shall determine.

Application
for improve-
ment of
road.

SEC. 196. And be it enacted, Whenever any person or
persons shall desire to improve any road, to an extent beyond
that contemplated by the County Commissioners and the
supervisor of the district where it is located, they may make
application to the commissioners by petition by setting forth
the location of the road to be improved, the extent and
character of the improvement, and probable cost thereof; and
if the County Commissioners, after considering the same
and probable cost thereof, shall be satisfied 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 petitioners for such improvement shall
first pay into the treasury of the county an amount not less
than double that appropriated by the County Commissioners ;
and all such money shall be expended under the direction of
the supervisor of the district where the improvements are to
be made.

Deed of road
by owner.

SEC. 197. And be it enacted, Whenever any owner of
property in Baltimore county shall have opened, laid out or
graded any avenue or road for the public convenience and is
willing to dedicate the same to public uses, and good and
sufficient deed duly recorded, the County Commissioners are
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 supervisor of the district
in which it may be situated; provided, however, that previous
to such acceptance said road shall not be less than thirty feet
in width and duly and properly graded, in the judgment of the
County Commissioners.

SEC. 198. And be it enacted, Whenever any road shall have
been in use for twenty years, though the same may not have