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gate or gates therein, or with a gate or gates, which shall be
kept closed at all times except when in actual use, shall be
conclusively presumed to have been dedicated by the owner or
owners thereof to public use as public highways, and may, at
any time thereafter be accepted as public highways, either by
ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or in
any other manner in which a dedication of land to public use
made in any other way be accepted. The preceding provisions
of this act shall not apply to any private streets, lanes, alleys
or ways laid out after the passage of this amended act, upon
plans approved by the Topographical Survey Commission of
Baltimore City, whose owner or owners shall declare them to
be private by placing and maintaining a sign or signs at or
near the junction or junctions of such private streets, lanes,
alleys or ways with such public streets, lanes, alleys or ways
on which sign or signs shall be marked the words "Private
Way," provided and so long as such owner or owners do not
grant in such, private streets, lanes, alleys or ways, for a longer
period than twenty-five years, any franchise, right or easement
for a railway or for pipe or conduits for supplying electricity,
gas, water or steam or for any other use that would be in the
nature of a public service franchise.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That nothing herein con-
tained shall affect any right acquired by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City under said Act of 1908, Chapter
582, prior to the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 660.

AN ACT to repeal section 18, Chapter 520 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1904, amending
the charter of the Town of Brunswick, Frederick county,
Maryland, and to re-enact said section 18 of Chapter 520 of
the Acts of 1904, with amendments so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 18 of Chapter 520 of the Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1904, amending the charter
of the Town of Brunswick, in Frederick county, Maryland, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows: