Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-07-22
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS

roads throughout the State, provided,
however, that said funds shall be cx-
pended in the several Counties of the
state in the same ratio as the County
road mileage of each County bears to
the entire County road mileage of the
State.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted,
That if the Congress of the United
States shall fail on or before Deem
Der Is, 1922, or December Is, 1923, re-
spectively, to pass legislation appro-
priating from the Federal Treasury
funds for the construction during said
years 1922 and 1923, respectively, of
rural post roads in the various States
sufficient to equal the amounts herein
respectively appropriated for said pur-
pose in Maryland, then, and in that
event the money herein appropriated
to be used in connection with said
Federal appropriations for the build
ing of rural post roads, or so much
thereof as shall not be matched by
Federal appropriations, shall on and
after December Is, 1922, and Deem
Der Is, 1928, respectively, become
available, in the discretion of the State
Roads Commission, for use by said
State Roads Commission in the con-
struction of roads in the various Coun
ties of the State, said money to be ap-
propriated by the State Roads Com
mission to the various Counties of the
State in the same ratio which the pub
lice road mileage of each County bears
to the total public road mileage of
the several Counties of the State, and
it shall not be necessary for the va
rious Counties to add to such monies
any County funds whatever.
SEC. u. And be it further enacted,
That 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
rural post roads or lateral roads as it
may from time to time under the pro-
visions hereof determine to construct,
of the State Roads Commission, and
to contain the same provisions now
required by law for contracts of such
roads, The term rural post road"
as used herein, provided it shall not
be contrary to the Act or Acts of Con-
gress appropriating Federal aid there
for, and the term lateral road" 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 proper
part of the rural post road and lateral
road system, as herein described; such
bridges, if upon lateral roads, to be
charged against the Counties in which
the same are located, in the same man.
ner as are lateral roads, and to be
paid for by said Counties to the same
extent.
Sec. Is. And be it further enacted,
That the County Commissioners of the
several Counties of the State, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
are hereby respectively directed to
levy state taxes for the year 1928 at
1920 of one cent on each one hundred
dollars Of assessable property; for the
year 1924 at 1920 of one cent on each
one hundred dollars of assessable prop
erty; for the year 1925 at IL cents
on each one hundred dollars of assess
able property, for the year 1926, and
annually thereafter, to and including
the year 1888, 2 III cents on each one
hundred dollars of assessable property,
to be collected according to law, to
meet the interest on the amount of
said certificates outstanding and also
to meet and redeem so much of the
principal in each of said years as will
be represented by certificates redeem
able in each year, respectively, as here
in specified in Section of this Act.
SEC. IA. And be it further enacted,
That this Act is an emergency law
and necessary for the immediate pres
ervation of the public health and
safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote by three-fifths of all
the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of
it's passage.
Approved April 13, 1922.