1916] OF THE SENATE. 301

Also favorably

SENATE BILL No. 14, BY MR. OGDEN.

SUBJECT: STATE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COM-
MISSION.

[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time and ordered printed for a third reading. ]

Also favorably

SENATE BILL No. 167, BY MR. JOY.
SUBJECT: LEASE OR SELL COURT HOUSE LOT—
CALVERT COUNTY.

[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time and ordered printed for a third reading. ]
Also favorably

SENATE BILL No. 16, BY MR. OGDEN.
SUBJECT: STATE TAX COMMISSION.

[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time and ordered printed for a third reading. ]
Also favorably, with amendments,
SENATE BILL No, 31, BY MR. ZIHLMAN.
SUBJECT: SHOEMAKER ROAD—ALLEGANY COUNTY.

Amendments proposed by Committee: "Strike out all after
the words 'A Bill' and insert in lieu thereof, the following:
'Entitled an Act authorizing and directing the County Com-
missioners of Allegany county to issue bonds to the amount
of thirty thousand dollars ($30, 000), payable ten thousand
dollars ($10, 000) May 1, 1917, ten thousand dollars ($10, 000)
May 1, 1918, and ten thousand dollars ($10, 000) May 1, 1919,
for the purpose of providing for the construction of three
pieces of road in Allegany county, under what is known as the
Shoemaker Law. '

"Whereas, By the authority of Chapter 74 of the Acts of the
Assembly of 1912, the County Commissioners of Allegany
county were authorized to levy the sums of money therein
specified for the permanent improvement of certain roads as
therein set forth, and

"Whereas, The funds therein provided for have been in-
sufficient to improve all the roads therein mentioned, and
there still remain the road from Barton to Pekin in Allegany
county, a distance of about two miles, and on the Williams
road from the city limits of Cumberland eastward one-half
mile; and on the Bedford road northward about three-quar-
ters of a mile.