HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 217

construction of roads as a part of the State system of roads.
The State Roads Commission is hereby authorized and di-
rected 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 receiving recommenda-
tions from the County Commissioners may from time to time,
under the provisions hereof, determine to construct, said con-
tracts 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-sec-
tion are assigned to any particular road or route, the State
Roads Commission shall first consider the recommendations
made by the Board of County Commissioners. The term "Lat-
eral and Farm to Market Roads" as used herein, shall include
bridges, and authority is hereby given to the State Roads
Commission to build such bridges as it may decide to be a
proper part of the Lateral and Farm to Market Roads System;
such bridges to be charged against the counties in which same
are located in the same manner as are Lateral and Farm to
Market Roads.

(2) Seventy-five per cent. (75%) of the annual allocation
to Cecil County for the construction, reconstruction and
maintenance of county roads or the streets of incorporated
towns, municipalities or special taxing areas located in said
county, and in connection therewith to build and/or maintain
any bridges on such roads or streets, and/or for debt service,
that is to say, interest, sinking fund or maturity requirements
with respect to bonds or other evidences of debt issued by
Cecil County, municipalities, or special taxing areas, the pro-
ceeds of which have been used for road or street improvements,
provided such expenditures shall be made only after seeking
recommendation from the County Commissioners or other duly
constituted road or street authorities and action with respect
thereto as hereinbefore provided.

(3) Twenty-five per cent. (25%) of the Lateral Gasoline
Tax Fund allocated to Cecil County, shall be expended by
said State Roads Commission of Maryland therein for the con-
struction and/or reconstruction of Lateral and Farm to
Market Roads and/or construction, reconstruction and mainte-
nance of county roads as hereinbefore provided in sub-section
(1) hereof.

(4) If Cecil County desires to maintain its own county road
system in the manner provided in sub-section (2) hereof, it is
hereby permitted to do so and if such county desires so to do,
it shall be entitled to seventy-five per cent. (75%) of the
funds allocated to such county under the provision of Section
9 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939