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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

own road or in connection with the Annapolis and

Elk Ridge Rail Road, if its road shall not be ex-

tended to the City of Annapolis.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing herein

contained shall be construed as in any manner to

Be constained

destroy or interfere with any proceedings for con-

demnation, heretofore made or commenced by the

said company, but the rights and powers conferred

by this act may be used and exercised in behalf of

the said company, in giving effect to and completing

any such proceeding for condemnation which may

not have been heretofore completed and confirmed.

In force.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage, and the Legislature

Reserved.

hereby reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal

the same at pleasure.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 390.

AN ACT to authorize the sale or lease of certain

property in the eastern part of the City of Balti-

more, belonging to the Society of Friends in the

said city.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-

bly, that prior to the American Revolution, the

monthly meeting of the Society of Friends in Balti-

more town, were seized and possessed of a lot of

ground on the east side of Jones Falls, included

within York, Harford and Pitt streets, and Smock

alley, which was purchased by said society before the

Preamble

Revolution, for the purpose of erecting a meeting-
house, yard and stabling, burying-ground and school-

house, and houses for school-master ; the title to

which was confirmed by the act of seventeen hundred

and ninety-three, chapter twenty, to the trusees of

said monthly meeting, for the purpose aforesaid,.

and —