EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1007

CHAPTER 496.

AN ACT authorizing and directing the County Commission-
ers of Montgomery County to issue bonds to an additional
amount, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, for the purpose
of rebuilding and improving the public highway running
through the Town of Rockville, beginning at the corporate
limits of said town where the outlines of the property of
the Agricultural Society of Montgomery County intersects-
the same, and running to the corporate limits of said town
with the Frederick Road and to the corporate limits of said
town with the road leading to Darnestown, and to the cor-
porate limits of said town with the road leading to Norbeck,
connecting at each of the four points named with improved
highways already in existence; provided, however, that if
the State Roads Commission of Maryland, after application
by the County Commissioners of Montgomery County, which
they are hereby directed to do, shall provide funds for the
purpose hereinbefore specified, not to exceed Twenty Thou-
sand Dollars ($20,000), which said State Roads Commission
is hereby authorized and empowered to do for said purpose,
said funds to be in excess of any fund heretofore set aside
by it for said purpose, from the State Road Loan of 1918,
charging the same against the allotment of Montgomery
County out of said Road Loan, then this Act to be null and
void.

WHEREAS, by Chapter 31 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly passed at the Special Session of June, 1917, the said
County Commissioners were authorized to issue bonds for a
sum not to exceed thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of
rebuilding and improving the road mentioned in the caption
of this bill, but it was impracticable to make the improvements
designed after the adjournment of the Legislature passing the
bill, and now owing to the increased cost of labor and material,
and the difficulty of securing both, the cost of such work has so
largely increased, so that it is feared that the improvements
contemplated cannot be done for the money named in the Act
of 1917.

SECTION 1. B e it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Montgomery County
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to issue addi-
tional bonds in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars
for the purpose of rebuilding and improving the public high-