74 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 33

May 1, 1919, for the purpose of providing for the construc-
tion of three pieces of road in Allegany County, under what
is known as the Shoemaker Law.

WHEREAS, by the authority of Chapter 74 of the Acts of
the Assembly of 1912, the County Commissioners of Allegany
County were authorized to levy the sums of money therein
specified for the permanent improvement of certain roads as
therein set forth, and

WHEREAS, the funds therein provided for have been insuffi-
cient to improve all the roads. therein mentioned, and there
still remain the road from Barton to Pekin in Allegany Coun-
ty, a distance of about two miles, and on the Williams Road
from the city limits of Cumberland eastward one-half mile;
and on the Bedford Road northward about three-quarters of
a mile.

WHEREAS, it is estimated that said roads will cost Sixty
Thousand Dollars ($60, 000).

Now Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Allegany County are
authorized and directed on or before the first day of May, 1916,
to issue their bonds and sell the same in the amount of
Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30, 000), said bonds to be
coupon bonds in the denomination of Five Hundred Dollars
($500) each, to be signed by the president of the County Com-
missioners of Allegany County, countersigned by the Clerk of
the County Commissioners of Allegany County, under the cor-
porate seal of said County Commissioners; Ten Thousand Dol-
lars ($10, 000) of said bonds to become due and payable on or
before the first day of May, 1917, and Ten Thousand Dollars
($10, 000) of said bonds to be payable on or before the first day
of May, 1918, and Ten Thousand Dollars ($10, 000) of said
bonds to be payable on or before the first day of
May, 1919, and to bear interest at a rate not to exceed
five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, said
bonds to be exempt from. all state, county and municipal
taxes; the proceeds of said bonds to be levied by the County
Commissioners of Allegany County to the Road Directors of
Allegany County to be expended by said Road Directors for
permanent road work under what is known as the Shoemaker
Law, for the construction of a road from the end of the present
State Aid Road to the eastward of the village of Pekin to the