ART. 91] STATE ROAD NO. 1. 1983

1906, ch. 312, sec. 3.

28. Whenever it shall become necessary from any cause to acquire
any lands for the purpose of constructing said road which can not be
acquired by purchase or grant, the said commission is hereby clothed
with power to condemn, under the right of eminent domain, aa now
conferred on railroad or railway companies by article 23 of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Corporations," or as may be conferred on
such corporations by any amendment to said article 23; this right of
condemnation to apply to gravel pits or quarries as well as to land,
and whenever it shall be necessary to cross any streams the bridges
over the same shall be constructed of permanent materials and in a
modern manner.

1906, ch. 312, sec. 4.

29. Whenever any railroad or railway company hereafter con-
structed shall cross said road it shall be required to keep its own road
bed and the bed of the said highway in proper repair or else to have
constructed an overhead or undergrade crossing subject to the approval
of the said commission or in conformity to the provisions of article 23 of
the Annotated' Code of Public Civil Laws as to crossings of railroad com-
panies in regard to flagmen and electric bells; and the tracks of such
railroads or railways shall be so constructed as to give absolutely safe
and easy approach to and crossing thereof; and in case of failure so to
construct, the said commission shall construct the same, and upon
certification of said construction and the cost thereof, after due notifi-
cation to such company to construct and its failure so to do the cost
thereof shall ex parte be rendered a judgment against such company
by any justice of the peace in such counties before whom such proceed-
ings shall have been instituted.

1906, ch. 312, sec. 5.

30. For the purpose of building and constructing and maintaining
said road or highway, the said commission is hereby authorized and
directed to make requisition on the directors of the Maryland House
of Correction for as many inmates thereof as may be necessary for
the said purpose of building and constructing said highway, and the
said directors are hereby directed to furnish the same with such guards
or keepers as can be spared from their duties at said house of correc-
tion, and any additional guards or keepers necessary to the safe keeping
of said inmates shall be furnished and appointed by said commission.
The said commission shall, in conjunction with the aforesaid board of
directors of the house of correction, provide for the maintenance and
safekeeping of said inmates of the house of correction.

1906, ch. 312, sec. 6. 1908, ch. 304, sec. 3.

31. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this sub-
title, the further sum of fifty thousand dollars annually for the fiscal
years of 1908, 1909 and 1910 is hereby appropriated, to be paid out