ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 23

payable to Baltimore County by the State of Maryland for
automobile licenses and all fines and forfeitures payable to
Baltimore County and all taxes collected on stocks and bonds
not apportioned or assessed to any district and formerly
known as the "Unapportioned Fund" shall be and constitute
a fund to be known as the General Road and Bridge Fund
and may be expended for any lawful road or bridge purpose
anywhere in Baltimore County and for no other purpose or
purposes whatsoever. Whenever the people of any election
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 twenty cents on the
one hundred dollars of the assessable property. of such dis-
trict, which petition must represent three-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 news-
papers published in Baltimore County and the taxpayers of
the district be given an opportunity to be heard; and. it'
granted, the said Commissioners shall determine what special
rate, not greater than twenty cents on the one hundred dol-
lars of property in the district, 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 col-
lected. When there shall not be sufficient money in the
county treasury set apart as General Road and Bridge Fund
to meet the demand for an emergency, the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County shall have the power to borrow
money, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in one year,
on the credit of the county, to be paid out of road money
provided by the next succeeding levy. All bills and claims on
account of the roads and bridges of the county, before pay-
ment, shall receive the endorsement of the Roads Engineer
and shall be passed upon by the County Commissioners at a
regular or adjourned meeting, and no such bill or claim in-
volving the expenditure of more than one hundred dollars,
and no contract or agreement involving a .larger expenditure
from the road moneys of the county shall be allowed or made