ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  665

mine, such expenditures not to exceed the sum of $15, 000. 00
from the issue of June 15, 1931, and $10, 000. 00 from the
issue of June 15, 1932, and the same rights and powers are
hereby conferred upon the said State Roads Commission in
connection with the said work as are possessed by said Com-
mission in connection with the building of roads.

SEC. 7. 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 bridges as it may from time to time under the provi-
sions hereof determine to construct, said contracts to be made
in the name of the State Roads Commission, and to contain the
same provisions now required by law for contracts for roads.

SEC. 8. 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 1932 at sixteen one-
hundredths (16/100) of one cent on each one hundred dollars
($100) of assessable property; for the year 1933 at thirty one-
hundredths (30/100) of one cent on each one hundred dollars
($100) of assessable property; for the year 1934 at forty-nine
one-hundredths (49/100) of one cent on each one hundred dol-
lars ($100) of assessable property; for the year 1935 and an-
nually thereafter to and including the year 1947 at sixty-eight
one-hundredths (68/100) of one cent on each one hundred dol-
lars ($100) 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 certifi-
cates redeemable in each year, respectively, as herein specified
in Section 2 of this Act.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this Act is an emer-
gency law and necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public health and safety, and having been passed by a yea and
nay vote supported 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 17, 1931.