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State out of the proceeds from the sale of bonds set apart
in the manner hereinbefore provided, to the Counties in which
such roads are respectively located, and the remaining one
half with the funds to be provided by said Counties, respect-
ively, as herein directed.

SEC. 10. And be it further emitted, That those portions of
the proceeds from the sale of the bonds or certificates of in-
debtedness herein authorized, which are herein appropriated
to meet obligations imposed upon the State by its assent to any
Act or Acts of Congress appropriating Federal aid to the sev-
eral States in the construction of rural post roads, shall be used
by the State Roads Commission, subject to the conditions and
provisions contained in said Act or Acts of Congress, in the
construction of rural post roads throughout the State, provided,
however, that said funds shall be expended in the several Coun-
ties of the State in the same ratio as the County road mileage
of each County bears to the entire County road mileage of the
State.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That if the Congress
of the United States shall fail on or before December 15, 1922,
or December 15, 1923, respectively, to pass legislation appro-
priating from the Federal Treasury funds for the construc-
tion during said years 1922 and 1923, respectively, of rural
post roads in the various States sufficient to equal the amounts
herein respectively appropriated for said purpose; in Mary-
land, then, and in that event the money herein appropriated
to be used in connection with said Federal appropriations for
the building of rural post roads, or so much thereof as shall
not be matched by Federal appropriations, shall on and after
December 15, 1922, and December 15, 1923, respectively, be-
come available, in the discretion of the State Roads Commis-
sion, for use by said State Roads Commission in the construc-
tion of roads in the various Counties of the State, said money
to be appropriated by the State Roads Commission to the vari-
ous Counties of the State in the same ratio which the public
road mileage of each County bears to the total public road
mileage of the several Counties of the State, and it shall not
be necessary for the various Counties to add to such monies

any County funds whatever.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the State Roads
Commission is hereby authorized and directed to ask for bids
and enter into contracts in the usual form for the construction