The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-28
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CHAPTER 8.
| AN ACT to authorize the Highways Commission
of Baltimore county to use the unappropriated
| surplus in the county treasury to reimburse
the road fund for portion of the loss sus-
tanned by reason of damage to the county
roads and bridges from destructive floods dur
ing the year 1905.
Whereas, the public roads and bridges of Bal
timore county were greatly damaged, and IN
many instances totally destroyed by unusual
and destructive floods occurring during the year
1906 requiring the Highways Commission of said
county to expend on their repair the sum or over
sixty-five Thousand dollars 1856, OOOO out of the
funds levied for ordinary and usual road pur-
poses, thereby depriving the whole people of
said county of the benefit of that sum. which
would otherwise have been used for usual re-
pairs and improvements to the county roads in
general.
ury due the county from uncollected taxes and
other sources the sum of about forty -hve thous-
and dollars ($45,OOOl, not Appropriated ZOE otner
purposes, and constituting surplus which has
been accumulated by the County Commissioners
during the past few years through the exercise
of great economy ana care IN tine ADMINISTRATION
of county affairs.
And where's, the Highways Commission of
said county is limited 6y law TO me expenditnTe
of said county for road purposes, and said County
Commissioners are by law prohibited from ex-
pending. for any specific purpose, any greater or
other sum than they have actually levied for
SUCH purposes therefore:
SECTION ]. Beit enacted 6y me General assembly
of MARYLAND, That the Highways Commission of
Baltimore county be- and it is hereby authorized
and empowered to reimburse the road fund for
portion of the loss sustained by reason OF dam
age to the county roads and bridges from de-
structive floods during the year 1913, and expend
for road purposes during the fiscal year ending
May 3Oth, 1905, SO much of the unappropriated
surplus In the county treasury. or due the same,
as may be necessary for ordinary road purposes,
including the repair and improvement OF exist
ing roads and bridges and the opening and con-
struction of new roads and construction OF new
bridges, the word roads to be taken to embrace
public highways of every character, and the
Treasurer of Baltimore county Is hereby d.
rected to pay out said surplus funds on the
order of the said Highways Commission as by
SECTION q And be IL enacted, That all Acts or
parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and
the same are hereby repealed, to the extent of
Section g. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved February 10th, 1905.
EDWIN WAKEFIELD.
JOSEPH B.-SETH,
President of the Senate.
CARVILLE d. BENSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE
I hereby certify. that the aforegoing is a true
land, passed at the January Session, 1906.
RORT. MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.
HENRY P. MANN,
JOHN V. SLADE,
County Commissioners of Baltimore county.
Afue oop' E. STANTON BOsLEY,
Apl G8-3t] Chief Clerk and Auditor.
S1.5OOTo LOAN.
W IN ONE sum. ON FIRST-CLAss REAL ES-
TATE SECURITY in Baltimore county.
Agply, to LoNGNEcKEEa 6w BRosIi d