276 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 126

and shall appoint three examiners to go over the outlet or
water-course for such drainage, and estimate the damage to the
owner or owners of the land through which said outlet or water-
course shall be run, and make return thereof to the Board of
Road Commissioners of Charles County, which, upon the ten-
der of the amount so estimated to the said owner or owners,
the said Board of Road Commissioners shall immediately
cause such outlet or water-course to be opened; provided, how-
ever, that there shall be an appeal to the Circuit Court of
Charles County, Maryland, from the finding of said examiners
to be filed in the office of the Road Commissioners of Charles
County within ten days after the return of same, and said
appeal, provided bond is given, with such security as may be
approved by the Road Commissioners of Charles County, to
pay the cost of same, shall stay further proceedings until said
appeal may be heard. But no such outlet or water-course shall
be opened so as to pass through the buildings, gardens, yards,
or burial grounds of any person or persons without the consent
of the owner or owners in writing. In case the said Board of
Road Commissioners shall find it necessary to obtain gravel or
other material lying along or within three miles of the line of
any road of Charles County, for the use of grading and repair-
ing, they may make such agreement as they may see fit with
the owner or owners thereof for securing the same; and if no
agreement can be made the said Board of Road Commissioners
of Charles County shall proceed in like manner as above set
forth for the condemnation of land for an outlet or water-
course.

Section 160B. And be it further enacted, That the County
Commissioners of Charles County shall, at the time of making
the annual levy in said county for the years 1918, 1919, 1920,
1921, 1922 and 1923, levy upon the taxable property of the
said County a sum of not less than thirty thousand dollars
($30, 000) nor more than forty thousand dollars ($40, 000)
and annually thereafter levy upon the taxable property of the
said County a sum of money of not less than twenty thousand
dollars ($20, 000) nor more than thirty thousand dollars ($30, -
000), for the purpose of paying for the construction, recon-
struction, repair and maintenance, of the roads and bridges
of said county; provided, however, that ten thousand dollars
($10, 000) of the sum so levied in the years 1918, 1919, 1920,
1921, 1922 and 1923 shall be expended by the said Board of
Road Commissioners, in conjunction with the State Aid to