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five cents, and the said Road Commissioners shall have no
power to bind or obligate the said County Commissioners for
any contract or contracts for an aggregate amount in excess of
the amount of taxes realized from said levy or levies of said
seventy-five cents.

The County Commissioners shall have the power to pass
any rules or regulations that they find necessary in order
to make this Act operative and to carry out the purposes
thereof; and in the event that the said County Commissioners
shall fail to procure the services of suitable persons to act as
said Road Commissioners, then the County Commissioners
shall have absolute control and cause the taxes hereby directed
to be levied to be expended and laid out to the best advantage
for the roads and streets of the said town, and the expenses
of the Anne Arundel County Sanitary Commission.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County from the liability
and responsibility of maintaining the abutment at the end
of Spa Creek Bridge the expense of which shall be paid from
the General Tax Fund, as now provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 286.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 9,
10, 14, 23, 25 and 28 of Chapter 448 of the Laws of Mary-
land of 1927, entitled "An Act to create the Maryland-
Washington Metropolitan District within Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties contiguous to the District of
Columbia, etc. "; the purpose of the amendments made by
this Act being to authorize and empower the Maryland-
National Capital Park and Planning Commission to expend
a certain portion of its revenue for the development and
maintenance of parks; to give the District Council of Prince
George's County appellate jurisdiction with respect to con-
demnation of property for the purposes of this Act; to re-
quire the Commission to charge certain fees for the approval
of sub-division plats; to provide for payment of cost of