ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 871

tures have been provided for the Commission shall use and
expend two-thirds of the residue of the net proceeds received
from the issue of 1927, and all of the net proceeds received
from the issue of 1928 of said bonds or certificates of indebted-
ness, with the aid of Federal Funds appropriated for such pur-
pose by any Act or Acts of Congress, for the construction, in
the several counties of the State, of such rural post roads as
may be selected by the State Roads Commission; and the re-
maining one-third of the net proceeds derived from the issue
of 1927 of such bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall be
used, with an equal sum to be raised by the several counties of
the State, for the purpose of building such lateral roads, in the
several counties of the State, as may be selected by the State
Roads Commission together with the County Commissioners
or duly constituted road authorities of the several counties.

The money expended for such post and lateral roads in each
of the said counties to be determined according to the respective
road mileage of said counties.

SEC. 7. 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, 1927, 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, 1927, and herein appro-
priated for the construction of lateral roads, and shall imme-
diately and not later than May 1, 1927, notify the County
Commissioners 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, 1927, to each of the
counties, respectively, 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 borrowing 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