136 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 82

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That, except as herein-
after otherwise provided, all the provisions of the Constitution
of Maryland and of the Baltimore City Charter, and other local
laws applicable to Baltimore City, and all the existing ordi-
nances of Baltimore City, shall be and the same are hereby
extended and made applicable to such portions of Baltimore
County and Anne Arundel County as shall, under the pro-
visions of this Act, be annexed to and made part of Bal-
timore City; and thereupon all the provisions of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland relating to Baltimore County, except
as hereinafter otherwise provided, shall cease to be in force in
such portions of Baltimore County as shall, under the provi-
sions of this Act, be annexed to and made part of Baltimore
City, and all the provisions of the Public Local Laws of
Maryland relating to Anne Arundel County, except as here-
inafter otherwise provided, shall cease to be in force in such
portions of Anne Arundel County as shall, under the provi-
sions of this Act, be annexed to and made part of Baltimore
City. But nothing herein, or elsewhere in this Act, shall affect
the power of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
amend or repeal any ordinance existing at the date of the pas-
sage of this Act. Any reference herein to existing laws shall
be understood to include any amendment or amendments which
may be ma. de to such laws at any time hereafter.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall be and hereby are authorized and
required to cause the metes and bounds described in the first
section of this Act to be forthwith surveyed and distinctly
marked, and suitable boundary stones, marked as boundaries of
the said city, to be placed at the beginning and at the termina-
tion of each line; and boundary stones marked as aforesaid,
and not at a greater distance than fifty perches from each other,
to be placed on all the lines which are not in the water and do
not run with some natural boundary; and that the said Mayor
and City Council shall cause three plats of the said survey to be
made and duly certified as hereinafter provided, one of which
shall be returned to and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County, another of which shall be
returned to and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County, and the third shall be returned
to and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, and copies of the said plats, duly certified by
the keepers of the said records for the time being, respectively,