484 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and shall incur no debts not payable out of the funds derived
from such levy or other sources; and said Commission shall not
order to be paid from any district road fund or from the gen-
eral road and bridge fund of the county, any sum in excess
of any of said funds, and to this end the secretary of said Com-
mission shall compile and place before the Commission at each
regular meeting a detailed statement of the amounts expended
from each fund since the beginning of the fiscal year, which,
for the purposes of this sub-title, shall be January first of each
year, and the amount to the credit of the general and each of
the district road funds on the basis of the entire levy for such
purposes for such year, and in addition thereto, shall append a
statement to be furnished by the County Treasurer for that
purpose, and the amount then actually in the hands of the
County Treasurer to the credit of the Commission for road pur-
poses at the date of such statement.

350. Whenever the owners of property binding upon any
public road or street may desire to have the same improved to
an extent beyond that contemplated by the Highways Commis-
sion, then if the owners of two-thirds of the lineal feet of prop-
erty binding on such road or street shall petition the Commis-
sion for such improvement, and deposit with the Commission
a sufficient sum of money, the same to be determined by the
Commission, to cover the cost of necessary surveys and other
necessary expenses of preliminary examination; it shall be the
duty of the Commission to appoint three examiners, one to be
selected by the petitioners, one to be a member of the Commis-
sion, and the other the Roads Engineer of the county, to ex-
amine into and report upon the need for such improvement and
the cost thereof, and if the Commission shall determine after
such report thereon that such improvement should be made, it
shall determine the amount to be appropriated from the road
moneys of the county or district for such improvement, and
what proportion of the cost shall be paid by the petitioners and
others interested in the work, such proportion not to be less
than fifteen per cent, or more than fifty per cent, of such cost,
and shall have the power to determine what individuals are to
be damaged and what individuals are to be benefited thereby,
and the amount of such individual damage and benefit, and to
allow and assess the same; provided, the amount of individual
damage and individual benefit shall not be finally fixed until
notice shall be given to the person to be affected, and to have
the opportunity to be heard, such person to have the right to
appeal from the final decision of the Commission to the Circuit
Court for the county. When all the assessments for benefits
made by the Commission shall have been paid into the county