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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 418.

AN ACT to add an additional section to the charter

of the City of Cumberland, authorizing the

Mayor and Council of Cumberland to purchase or

condemn additional ground, for the use of said

city, for market-house and station-house.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of the

Authorized
and empowered

City of Cumberland are hereby authorized and em-

powered to purchase such additional property as

they may think necessary, for the purpose of en-

larging the accommodations of the market in said

city; and in case that they cannot agree with the

owners of any property that they may desire to ob-

tain, or in case that the owner thereof is an infant,

or married woman, non compos mentis, or absent from

the State, then they may proceed and condemn the

said property in the same manner as they are now

authorized to condemn property for the opening or

Proviso.

extending any street or alley in said city; provided

that the costs of said property shall not excesd

twenty thousand dollars.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 419.

AN ACT to repeal sections ninety-four, ninety-five

and ninety-six, of article twenty-one, Public Local

Laws, entitled Washington county, and relating to

fences.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections ninety-four, ninety-five and

Repealed.

ninety-six, of article twenty-one, entitled Washing-

ton county, relating to fences, be and the same is

hereby repealed.