JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

supplement thereto, passed at January session, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-three, Chapter seventy, and the Act to alter,
amend and extend the said original Act of incorporation and
the supplements thereto, passed at January session, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, Chapter one hundred and ten, be
and the same are hereby continued in full force and effect for
a period of thirty years from the tenth day of March, in the
year nineteen hundred and four, and until the end of the next
session of the General Assembly of Maryland, which shall
happen next thereafter.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1900.

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CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County to change the grade of a public
road in the thirteenth district of said county, commonly
known as the "Washington Turnpike Road," at and near
the place where the same crosses the Baltimore and Poto-
mac Railroad at grade, for the purpose of doing away with
such grade crossing, and to provide for the construction of
the bridge or bridges that may be made necessary thereby.

Washington
Turnpike road

WHEREAS, a public road of Baltimore County, commonly
known as the "Washington Turnpike Road," in the Thir-
teenth District of Baltimore' County, crosses the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad at or near Winan's Station on said
railroad, at grade; and

WHEREAS, such grade crossing is a great and constant
danger to the public travelling on said public road as well as
on said railroad, and accordingly the public convenience and
safety requires that such grade crossing shall be done away
with, and said public road carried across said railroad by an
overhead crossing; and

WHEREAS, in order to do so, it will be necessary to change
the grade of said public road at and near the place in question,
and to build a bridge or bridges for the crossing of said rail-
road and a natural stream of water, a tributary of the Patapsco
River which is adjacent thereto; therefore,

Preamble.