200

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

recorded as aforesaid, in Liber J. B. No. 992, folio 303; third,
to the assignment of a lot on the southwest corner of St. Paul
and Twentieth streets from William A. Kammerer, dated
the ninth day of November, in the year 1898, and recorded
as aforesaid in Liber R. O., No. 1760, folio 184.

Sanction and
consent.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sanction and consent
of the General Assembly of Maryland be and the same is
hereby declared, given and granted to the acquisition by
the said trustees of St. Mark's English Evangelical Luth-
eran Church, of Baltimore, at any time hereafter, whether
by gift, grant or otherwise, of the fee simple to the lot or
parcel of ground aforementioned, in which they are entitled
io a leasehold interest or less than a fee-simple title by
virtue of the deeds aforementioned, and by virtue of the
sanction hereinbefore by the first section of this Act given,
and to the holdings, selling, mortgaging or otherwise dis-
posing of the same.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 156.
AN ACT to add certain sections to Chapter twenty-five of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
the January session, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
known as the amended charter of the town of Oakland,
granting to the Mayor and Town^ Council of Oakland addi-
tional powers to operate an electric light plant, or to con-
tract for the operation of the same, and to grant franchises
to corporations or individuals within thp corporate limits
of the town of Oakland, and to be known as Sections 196 A,
196B and 196C.

Oakland, Md.
New sections
added to
charter.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following sections be added to the amended
charter of the town of Oakland, as provided in Chapter
twenty-five of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and ninety -
eight, for the purpose of giving the Mayor and Town Council
of the town of Oakland full power and authority to own and
operate an electric light plant, and to contract with individuals
or corporations for the operation of the same within the cor-
porate limits of said town, and empowering them to grant