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to the fund from which the cost of said paving shall have been paid in
the first instance; and the amount of the cost shall be due and payable
for the work done in the railway area in any street or portion of a street
embraced in each, separate contract or separate undertaking of construc-
tion by said Paving Commission or other agency, upon the completion of
such work. Provided, that no corporation shall be required to pay under
or by virtue of the provisions of this Act more than $100,000 during any
one year. If the cost of the work for which any corporation is made
liable under this Act shall exceed $100,000 in any one year, the excess
above $100,000 shall not be due and payable until the following year;
the intent of this proviso being that the entire obligation imposed by this
Act shall be paid by every corporation upon which it is imposed, but
that no corporation shall be called on to pay more than $100,000 thereof
in any one year.

Pronounced invalid in M. & C. C. v. United Rys. & E. Co., 127 Md. 660.

1914, ch. 37.

800D. That nothing herein, contained shall be construed to relieve any
street railway or railroad corporation of any obligation existing or im-
posed upon it by any law or ordinance prior to the passage of this Act.
M. & C. C. v. United Rys. & E. Co., 127 Md. 660.

PROHIBITING TRACKS ON CERTAIN STREETS.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 769A. 1892, ch. 115. 1894, ch. 69. 1894, ch. 150.

1894, ch. 439. 1896, ch. 74. 1896. ch. 403. 1896, ch. 405. 1900, ch. 149.

1902, ch. 558, 1904. ch. 35. 1906, ch. 253. 1918, ch. 211.

801. It shall not be lawful for any person or corporation to lay any
railway track upon Mount Royal Avenue between Guilford and North
Avenues, or upon Cathedral Street between Saratoga Street and Mount
Royal Avenue, or upon Saint Paul Street from Baltimore Street northerly
to Huntingdon Avenue, or upon Calvert Street from Read Street north-
erly to the city limits, or upon Gough Street from Bond Street easterly to
Patterson Park Avenue, or upon Broadway from Baltimore Street north
to North Avenue, except upon the streets where tracks are now laid, or
upon Caroline Street between Preston Street and North Avenue, or upon
Eager Street between Park and Wolfe Streets, or upon the Old York
Road from its intersection with the York Turnpike to Willow Avenue,
in the City and County of Baltimore, or upon McCulloh Street between
Eutaw Street and North Avenue, or on Barclay Street, or on Biddle
Street between Broadway and Maryland Avenue, and when the tracks of
the Lake Roland Elevaited Railway Company shall have been removed
from Oak Street, Hampden Street, Cedar Avenue, Elm Avenue and
Merryman's Lane, in the City of Baltimore, thereafter it shall not be
lawful for any person or corporation to lay any railway tracks upon the
said portion of said streets so occupied by the said Lake Roland Elevated
Railway Company, or upon Hanover Street between Lee Street in the