286 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 165

essary, and for the purpose of building and improving Pub-
lic Roads tinder the provisions of Chapter 225 of the Acts
of 1904, and amendments thereto, known as the State Aid,
or Shoemaker Road Law, and to provide for the levy and
collection of taxes to meet the interest and principal of said
bonds as and when the same shall become due.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Queen Aimers
County are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow on
the faith and credit of said County, such sum or sums of
money as may be necessary, not exceeding in all the total sum
of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60, 000. 00), and to issue there-
for coupon bonds in the sums of not less than One Hundred
Dollars ($100. 00), nor more than one thousand dollars ($1, -
000. 00), to be dated as of June first, nineteen hundred and
sixteen, and to be signed by the President of the said Board
of County Commissioners, attested by the Clerk of the said
Board of County Commissioners, with the corporate seal of
said Board of County Commissioners thereto affixed, bearing
interest not exceeding five per centum (5 %) per annum, pay-
able semi-annually on the first days of June and December
of each and every year thereafter until the same are paid, for
the purpose of providing for the building and improving of
public roads, and for the building of new bridges and culverts
wherever the County Road Engineer for Queen Anne's County
and the County Commissioners thereof may deem necessary,
and for the improving and building of public roads under the
provisions of Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1904: and the amend-
ments thereto, known as the State Aid, or Shoemaker, Road
Law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said bonds shall be issued
in series from one to thirty, inclusive, according to the aggre-
gate amount issued, each series to consist of two thousand
dollars ($2, 000. 00) of said amount; two thousand dollars
($2, 000. 00) of said bonds to be redeemable and payable on
the first day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, and the other sums of two thousand dollars
($2, 000. 00) to be redeemable and payable thereafter on the
first day of June in each and every year until the whole
amount so issued shall have been paid, said bonds to be known
as "General Road Improvement Bonds. "