EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 985

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 502 of Article 3 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "Baltimore County," sub-title "Roads and
Streets," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows, that is to say:

Section 502. The County Commissioners shall annually levy
upon the assessable property of Baltimore County, at the time of
making the county levy, not more than forty cents on the one
hundred dollars for the use of the county roads and bridges, of
which sum 30 per cent, shall be set apart as an Improved Road
System Fund, to be spent as herein provided for and to be ap-
plied to the general use and benefit of the roads and bridges of
the County as herein provided; and the remaining 70 per cent,
of the tax so levied and collected for roads and bridges shall
be set apart as a special road and bridge fund for the use and
benefit of the election district from which it has been collected,
and for no other purpose. Whenever the people of any elec-
tion district may desire a special road fund for such district
in excess of that provided by the general rate of tax levied
for, they may petition the said County Commissioners, for a
special road tax for such district, not to exceed ten cents on
the one hundred dollars of the assessable property of such dis-
trict, which petition must represent two-fifths of the taxable
basis of such district; and when such petition is presented to
the said Commissioners it shall be determined by them whether
to grant the same or not, provided notice of such petition shall
be given by publication in two weekly newspapers published
in Baltimore County and the taxpayers of the districts be given
an opportunity to be heard; and, if granted, the said Com-
missioners shall determine what special rate, not greater than
ten cents on the one hundred dollars of property in the dis-
trict, shall be allowed, and it shall thereupon become the duty
of said County Commissioners to levy for and collect such
special tax as other taxes, and when collected the same shall
be used for the exclusive benefit of the roads and bridges of
the election district from which collected. When there shall
not be sufficient money in the county treasury set apart as Im-
proved Road System Fund to meet the demand for any emer-
gency, the County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall
have the power to borrow money, not exceeding twenty thou-
sand dollars in one year, on the credit of the county, to be
paid out of road money provided by the next succeeding levy
and from the special or Improved Road System Fund as the