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or in any other manner in which a dedication of land to public use made
in any other way, may be accepted.

This Act was approved April S. 1908.

See Canton Co. v. Seal, 144 Md. 174.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. S24A. 1890, ch. 628.

841. All streets, avenues or alleys lying in that portion of Baltimore
City, formerly constituting a portion of Baltimore County, and in pur-
suance of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1888, Chapter
98, recently annexed to the said City of Baltimore, which had prior to-
such annexation become streets, avenues or alleys in Baltimore County,
whether by deed or dedication, shall be held for all purposes to validly
constitute streets, avenues or alleys of Baltimore City, in all respects as
if the same had been legally condemned as such by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore.

Park Tax Case, 84 Md. 1. Baltimore City v. Broumel, 86 Md. 155 Clendenin v.
Md. Construction Co., 86 Md. 86.

ANNEX IMPROVEMENT LOAN AND COMMISSION.
(Sections 841A to 841T probably inoperative because of
the expenditure of the loan or completion of work.)

1904, ch. 274, sec. 1.

841A. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is authorized to
issue stock to an amount not exceeding two million dollars, to be issued
from time to time and payable at such time and bearing such rate of
interest as the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordi-
nance prescribe; provided, however, that not more than five hundred thou-
sand dollars of said stock shall be issued in any one year. The proceeds,
of the sale of said stock shall be used only for the purpose of providing
the costs and expenses of condemning, opening, grading, paving and curb-
ing the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys of the Annex portion of Balti-
more City. The certificates of stock shall not be issued and the commis-
sion hereinafter created shall not be appointed unless and until the ordi-
nance which the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby author-
ized to pass for the purpose aforesaid shall be approved by a majority
of the votes of the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, cast at the time
and place to be appointed by said ordinance in the provisions for sub-
mitting the same to the legal voters of said city.

1904, ch. 274. sec. 2.

841B. The Mayor of the City of Baltimore (if the loan provided for
in the next preceding section of this Article shall be approved) is author-
ized to appoint, in the manner prescribed in Section 25 of this Article,
four capable and upright citizens, property owners and residents of the
Annex portion of Baltimore City, two of whom shall be members of the
Republican party, who together with the Mayor, Comptroller, City Engi-
neer and Commissioners for Opening Streets, as ex-officio members, shall
constitute a special commission, to be known as the "Annex Improvement