1600 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 888

Section 244 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, reconstruction, mainte-
nance 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 high-
ways in the City of Baltimore. The balance shall be cred-
ited to the account of the State Roads Commission of Mary-
land, 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 that proportion used for 1941 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 reconstruction of Lat-
eral and Farm to Market Roads as a part of the State
Roads System or as a part of the County Roads
System, or for the liquidation of debts and debt
service obligations which may be incurred by any counties
for the construction of new roads as a part of the State
or county system of roads; except that nothing herein
shall apply to those certain counties who have heretofore
by special act issued bonds for road construction, and
whose share of said Lateral Road Gasoline Tax Fund has
been pledged towards the retirement of said bonds. 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 Lateral and, Farm
to Market Roads as the said Commission, after receiv-
ing recommendations from the County Commission-
ers or proper road authorities of the several counties,
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
contain and be subject to the same provisions now required
by law for contracts for the construction of State roads.
Before the construction funds provided in this sub-section
are assigned to any particular road or route, the Board of
County Commissioners or road authority of each county
shall deliver to the State Roads Commission a statement
recommending the roads and bridges to be constructed or