ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 475

for the purpose of building such lateral roads, in the several
counties of the State, as may be selected by the State Roads
Commission. The money expended for such, post and lateral
roads in each of said counties to be determined according to the
respective road mileage of said counties.

SEC. T. And be it further enacted, That the State Roads
Commission shall, immediately after the going into effect of
this Act, and not later than May 1, 1922, by using the same
ratio which the public road mileage of the respective counties
bears to the entire public road mileage in the counties of the
State, ascertain each county's proportionate part of the pro-
ceeds to be derived from the sale of the bonds or certificates of
indebtedness to be dated June 15, 1922, and herein appropri-
ated for the construction of lateral roads, and shall immediately
and not later than May 1, 1922, notify the County Commis-
sioners of the several counties of the amount, thus ascertained,
which has been appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of
bonds to be dated June 15, 1922, to each of the counties, re-
spectively, for lateral road purposes. It shall thereupon be the
duty of the proper authorities of each county to provide, by
assessing a tax upon the taxable basis of said county or by bor-
rowing upon the faith and credit of said county or by special
assessments and benefits assessed upon the property especially
benefited by said road, or by levying a tax upon the property
within a special assessment district created for the purpose,
or by a combination of two or more of these methods, or by any
manner which in their discretion is lawful and equitable, for
the raising, during said year, of a sum of money equal to the
proportionate amount appropriated to said county as aforesaid.
The duty of raising the said amount to be furnished by each
of said counties is hereby made mandatory upon the proper
authorities of the respective counties and subject to enforce-
ment by mandamus at the instance of the State Roads Commis-
sion. Full power and authority is hereby granted to the County
Commissioners or other lawfully constituted authorities of each
and every county to raise said money in any of the ways here-
inbefore set out, and in case they decide to raise the same by
borrowing upon the credit and faith of the county, they are
authorized to issue the bonds or certificates of indebtedness of
said county to the extent of the amount so needed, upon such
terms and conditions and with such rate of interest, and with
such dates of maturity as to them may seem best. The Lateral
road money raised by each and every county as hereinbefore
provided shall be paid to the State Roads Commission at such