260 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 130

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, 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
several 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, pro-
vided, however, that said funds shall be expended in the several
counties 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. 8. And be it further enacted, That if the Congress of
the United States shall fail on or before December 15, 1929,
or December 15, 1930, respectively, to pass legislation appro-
priating from the Federal Treasury funds for the construction
during said years 1929 and 1930, 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, 1929, and December 15, 1930, 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
various 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.

SEC. 9. 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
of such rural post 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 Commission, and to con-
tain the same provisions now required by law for contracts of
such roads. The term "rural post roads" as used herein, pro-
vided it shall not be contrary to the Act or Acts of Congress
appropriating Federal aid therefor, shall include bridges, and
authority is hereby given to the State Roads Commission to