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title acquired by condemnation, or otherwise, by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, under this Act, for the purposes thereof, shall, as
to land, or other property, or things required for said main reservoir or
lake, or for subsidiary reservoirs, lakes, ponds or basins, or for said water
sheds or reserves, or for surface buildings, erections, structures, worka
or things of a permanent character, involving the idea of exclusive use and
occupation by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be in fee simple,
but may, as to land, or other property, or things, required for other pur-
poses under this Act, be in fee simple, or limited to some lesser quantum
of interest, in point of estate, or duration, according as the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore may determine.

1908, ch. 214, sec. 2.

826C. That the County Commissioners of Baltimore County or of any
other county, whose interests in any respect may become involved in the
execution of this Act, or any part or parts thereof, or any body politic,
quasi-public corporation, turnpike company, or private corporation, whose
interest in any respect may become involved in the execution of this Act
or any part, or parts, thereof, shall be, and is, or are hereby authorized
and empowered, anything in the terms of their or its chartered existence
or powers, to the contrary notwithstanding, to enter into all such con-
tracts, agreements, stipulations or arrangements, deeds, conveyances or
transfers with the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as may be neces-
sary or proper for the purposes of this Act, or any of them.

1908, ch. 214, sec. 3.

826D. That, when and so often, as resort shall be had to condemna-
tion proceedings under this Act, the procedure, so far as the acquisition
by condemnation of any land or property or thing situated within the City
of Baltimore, or any interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege there-
in is concerned, may, in any case, or cases, at the option of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, be such as may now, or at any time hereafter,
be provided for by any lawful general ordinance, or ordinances of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, adopted pursuant to the powers,
conferred tipon it by Section 6 of Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore,"
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "General Powers,"
sub-title "Condemnation of Property," for the condemnation of land or
property or interest therein for the municipal needs of the City of Balti-
more, or such as may be provided for the very purpose by any lawful
special ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more; which said lawful special ordinance or ordinances, the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore is hereby duly authorized to adopt; pro-
vided, that, in every such special ordinance, provision is made for reason-
able notice to the owner or owners, and for appeals to the Baltimore City
Court, including the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals by any person
interested, including the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, from the
decision of the commissioners or other persons appointed to value any