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edness shall not be sold for less than par; and the said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore are authorized to provide by ordinance for the
laying of such an annual tax as shall be sufficient to pay the interest on
said bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and provide a sinking fund for
their redemption at maturity.

1904, ch. 42.

739A. From and after the date of the passage of this Act no building,
except churches, shall be erected or altered in the City of Baltimore on
the territory bounded by the south side of Madison Street, the west side
of St. Paail Street, the north side of Centre Street, and the east side of
Cathedral Street, to exceed in height a point seventy feet above the sur-
face of the street at the base line of the Washington Monument.
Cochran v. Preston, 108 Md. 220.

1904, ch. 388.

739B. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting by and
through the agency of the Board of Park Commissioners, may acquire by
gift, purchase, lease, whatever the duration of the lease, or other like
methods of acquisition or by condemnation, any land situate wholly or
partly within the City of Batlimore, or within the counties of Baltimore,
Anne Arundel, and Howard, or any interest, franchise, easement, right or
privilege therein, which may be required for the purpose of extending'
said park system, as aforesaid, or any part or parts thereof, and when
and so often as resort shall be had to condemnation proceedings, the pro-
cedure shall be that marked out by Sections 331 to 336, inclusive, of
Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, relating to
condemnation of property by corporations, or so far as the acquisition by
condemnation of any such lands situate wholly or partly within the City
of Baltimore, or any interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege
therein is concerned, may, in such case or cases, at the option of the Board
of Park Commissioners, be such as may now or at any time hereafter pro-
vided for by any lawful ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, adopted pursuant to the powers conferred upon it
by Section 6 of this Article, title "General Powers," sub-title "Condemna-
tion of Property," for the condemnation of any land or property or inter-
est therein situated wholly or partly within the City of Baltimore, or
such as may be provided for the very purpose by any lawful ordinance
or ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which said
ordinance or ordinances the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
is hereby fully authorized to adopt; provided, provision is made therein
for reasonable notice to the owner or owners, and for appeals to the Balti-
more City Court by any person interested, including the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, from the decision of any Commissioners or other
persons appointed to value any such land or interest, franchise, easement,
right or privilege therein.

This power to the city was included in the Enabling Act of 1904, ch. 338, author-
izing a $1,000,000 park loan to be expended in the four sections of Baltimore City.