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of such rural post roads or lateral roads as it may from time
to time under the provisions hereof determine to construct,
said contracts to be made in the name of the State Roads Com-
mission, and to contain the same provisions now required by
law for contracts of such roads. The term ''rural post road"
as used herein, provided it shall not be contrary to the Act or
Acts of Congress appropriating Federal aid therefor, and the
term ''lateral road" as used herein shall include bridges, and
authority is hereby given to the State Roads Commission to
build such bridges as it may decide to be a proper part of the
rural post road and lateral road system, as herein described;
such bridges, if upon lateral roads, to be charged against the
Counties in which the same are located, in the same manner
as are lateral roads, and to be paid for by said Counties to the
same extent.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of the several Counties of the State, and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore are hereby respectively di-
rected to levy state taxes for the year 1923 at 9/20 of one
cent on each one hundred dollars of assessable property; for
the year 1924 at 19/20 of one cent on each one hundred dol-
lars of assessable property; for the year 1925 at 1% cents
on each one hundred dollars of assessable property, for the
year 1926, and annually thereafter, to and including the year
1938, 2 1/7 cents on each one hundred dollars of assessable
property, to be collected according to law, to meet the interest
on the amount of said certificates outstanding and also to meet
and redeem so much of the principal in each of said years
as will be represented by certificates redeemable in each year,
respectively, as herein specified in Section 2 of this Act.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted. That this Act is an
emergency law and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public health and safety, and having been passed by a yea
and nay vote by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 204.

AN ACT to repeal Article 28 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, title "Crows. "