5112 ARTICLE 23.

1918, ch. 1.

310. In addition to the powers granted in the preceding section to con-
demn property for the purpose of making any public improvement, the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power to condemn any build-
ings or improvements whatsoever in their entirety when any portion of
the same shall extend over, or lie upon, the realty sought to be condemned
according to the lines of the same as outlined in the Ordinance provided
for in sub-section two (2) of the preceding section, upon allowing dam-
ages for the whole of such biiildings or improvements to the owner or
owners thereof, provided that in all other respects such condemnation shall
be had in conformity with the provisions of the preceding section.

1908, ch. 310, sec. 2 (p. 1124). 1927, ch. 138, sec. 2.

311. This Act shall not affect or impair any right vested or acquired
and existing at the time of the passage of this Act; provided, that this
section shall not be construed to make irreparable or irrevocable any right
which before the passage of this Act was repealable or revocable; nor shall
this Act impair, discharge or release any contract, obligation, duty, lia-
bility or penalty whatever now existing. All suits and actions, both civil
and criminal, pending, or which may hereafter be instituted for causes of
action now existing or offenses already committed against any law or
ordinance repealed by this Act, shall be instituted, proceeded with and
prosecuted to final determination and judgment as if this Act had not
been passed. No tax levied or any proceeding taken for the collection of
any such tax or the enforcement of the payment of the same before the
passage of this Act shall in any manner be affected by the passage of this
Act, and the mode of procedure in any such matter shall be the same as
if this Act had not been passed.

1908, oh. 310, sec. 3 (p. 1124). 1927, ch. 138, sec. 3.

312. All laws now enforced relating or applicable to the Mayor and
Council of Salisbury and not included in this Act and not inconsistent
with this Act, and all ordinances of the Mayor and Council of Salisbury
now in force and not inconsistent with this Act, shall be and they are
hereby continued until changed or repealed, respectively, by the General
Assembly of Maryland or the Mayor and Council of Salisbury.

DEEDS.

1922, ch. 26, sec. 1.

313. No deed or deeds conveying real estate or chattels real, situated
or located within the corporate limits of the City of Salisbury, in Wico-
mico County, Maryland, shall be admitted to record among the Land
Records of the Circuit Court for said county until the property thereby
conveyed or assigned has been duly transferred upon the city assessment
books in the office of the Mayor and Council of Salisbury to the grantee
or assignee named in such deed, unless such a description thereof be