HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1659

the provisions of any existing law, of providing funds to
defray one-half of the cost of construction of such roads.

Each County's proportionate part of the revenue derived
from such additional tax shall be determined by using the
same ratio which the public road mileage of that County
bears to the entire public road mileage in the Counties of
the State.

7A. The "One and One-half Cent Lateral Road Gasoline
Tax Fund", created by Section 212B of Article 56 of the
1929 Supplement of Bagby's Annotated Code of Maryland,
as said Section is amended by this Act, shall be disbursed by
the State Treasurer monthly (less such sum to be retailed
by the Comptroller, as in the judgment of the Comptroller,
shall be sufficient to enable him to pay promptly all claims
for refunds, and less three-eighths of the appropriation to
the Comptroller for maintaining the Gasoline Tax Coi-
tion Department in the office of the Comptroller), as
follows: three-tenths thereof, less refund exemptions pro-
vided by Section 212C of said Article 56, to be credited to
the account of the State Roads Commission of Maryland
and to be paid by the State Roads Commission to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore in monthly installments for
use by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any
purposes in connection with the construction, reconstruc-
tion, maintenance or repair, of the street and highway
system of the City of Baltimore, or for the payment of
highway debt service, that is to say, interest, sinking fund
or maturity requirements with respect to bonds or other
evidences of debt issued by the City of Baltimore for the
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair of
streets and highways in the City of Baltimore. The bal-
ance shall 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 shall be allocated by the State Roads Commission of
Maryland, to the Counties of the State, in the proportion
which the public road mileage of the several counties bears
to the entire public road mileage in the counties of the
State, for the following uses and purposes:

(a) For the construction and/or re-construction of
Lateral and Farm to Market Roads as a part of the State
Roads system, or for the liquidation of debts and debt
service obligations which have been incurred by certain
counties for the construction of roads as a part of the
State system of roads. The State Roads Commission is
hereby authorized and directed to ask for bids and enter
into contracts in the usual form for the construction