1658 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 766
CHAPTER 766.
(Senate Bill 379)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
212-B of Article 50 and Section 7-A of Article 89B of
the 1935 Supplement of Bagby's Annotated Code of
Maryland, said amended sections to provide for the dis-
tribution and use of the "Lateral Road Gasoline Tax
Fund", and making permanent the provisions of Section
7F, of Article 89B of the 1935 Supplement of Bagby's
Annotated Code of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, That Section 212-B of Article
56 and Section 7-A of Article 89-B of the 1935 Supplement
of Bagby's Annotated Code of Maryland, be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to
read as follows:

212-B. On and after the first day of April, 1927, the
license tax in respect to motor vehicle fuels, prescribed by
this sub-title, shall be increased one and one-half cents per
gallon.

The State Treasurer shall create a special fund of the
receipts of the said additional tax of one and one-half cents
per gallon (to be designated as the "Lateral Road Gasoline
Tax Fund"), and shall disburse the same monthly (less
such sum to be retained by the Comptroller as, in the judg-
ment of the Comptroller, shall be sufficient to enable him
to pay promptly all claims for refund), as follows: Three-
tenths thereof, less refund exemptions as hereinafter
provided, to be credited to the account of the State Roads
Commission of Maryland, to be paid out of the Treasury
of the State, only upon the warrant of the Comptroller,
and to be used for the construction and maintenance of the
streets and highways of Baltimore City and/or for the pay-
ment of highway bond debt service, and the balance to be
credited to the account of the State Roads Commission of
Maryland, to be paid out of the Treasury of Maryland, only
upon the warrant of the Comptroller, and to be used as
provided in Section 7-A of Article 89B of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, as amended by this Act.

From and after October 1, 1927, the entire cost of the
construction of lateral roads built by the State Roads Com-
mission shall be paid by the State out of the revenue
derived from the additional tax imposed by this Section,
and thereafter the Counties in which such roads are respec-
tively located shall be relieved of their obligations, under