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ANNEXATION ACT. 779
tory, as hereinabove provided, shall apply to the roll so made up for
the year 1919, and annually thereafter the tax rate as herein provided
shall apply to said roll, with such changes thereof as may be made in
accordance with this Act.
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That all roads, streets, avenues
or alleys, lying in any of the territory hereinabove described, which
shall have been heretofore dedicated and accepted or legally condemned
as roads or streets, under the provisions of any Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, or of the common law, shall be held to be val-
idly constituted public highways of Baltimore City; and all proceedings
for the laying out, opening, grading and construction of streets, avenues,
or alleys in said territory, which shall have been begun under any
existing statutes of Maryland prior to the passage of this Act, shall be
proceeded with and completed under the said Act or Acts in all respects
as if this Act had not been passed. When such proceedings are com-
pleted, said streets, avenues and alleys shall be public highways of
Baltimore City. Any bridges existing in any of said highways men-
tioned in this Section shall be considered as parts of such highways.
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Governor is hereby
authorized to nominate and appoint one additional Justice of the Peace
for Baltimore City, for each of said Wards 25, 26, 27 and 28.
SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That all school teachers who
shall be connected with the public schools in the parts of the territory
described in this Act shall be allowed to retain their respective posi-
tions for the scholastic year 1918-19 and such teachers shall be deemed
qualified and continue eligible without further examination to occupy
positions as teachers in the public schools, in the same manner as if
they had complied with the examination now required for teachers in
the public schools of Baltimore City.
SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Police
Commissioners of Baltimore City are hereby directed, in submitting
their annual estimate to the Board of Estimates in the Fall of 1918,
for the expenses of the Police Department for the year 1919, to submit
an estimate of the cost to properly arm, equip and maintain an addi-
tional force of sixty men. Of said sixty men, so many may be appointed
as sergeants as, in the judgment of the said Board of Police Commis-
sioners, may be necessary, and the remainder shall be patrolmen; and
the Board of Estimates shall provide in the Ordinance of Estimates for
1919 for the additional expense so estimated by the Board of Police
Commissioners to properly enroll, arm, equip and maintain said addi-
tional force of sixty men, and the same shall be allowed in the Ordi-
nance of Estimates for the year 1919. After the passage of said Ordi-
nance said Board of Police Commissioners shall appoint and equip
the additional force herein provided for, so that the same may be ready
for service on January 1, 1919. In making such appointments, said
Board of Police Commissioners are hereby directed to give preference
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