1328 ARTICLE 4.

1924, ch. 537, sec. 5.

"920. The War Memorial Commission shall take and is hereby given
title to the War Memorial site and building, to hold same for the State
of Maryland and the City of Baltimore for the purposes stated in this Act,
or as may be directed by future Genera] Assemblies of the State of Mary-
land.

PROVISOES LIMITING THE OPERATION AND EFFECT OF

THIS ARTICLE.

(Article 4, P. L. L., as enacted by ch. 123, Acts of 1898.)

1898, ch. 123, sec. 2.

Section 2. This Act (1898, ch. 123) shall not affect or impair any
right vested or acquired and existing at the .time of the passage of said
Act; provided, that this section shall not be construed to make irrepeal-
able or irrevocable any right which before the passage of this Act waa
repealable or revocable; nor, shall said, Act impair, discharge or release
any contract, obligation, duty, liability or penalty whatever now existing.
All suits and actions, both civil and criminal, pending or which may here-
after be instituted for causes of action now existing or offenses already
committed against any law or ordinance repealed by this Act, shall be
instituted, proceeded with and prosecuted to final determination and judg-
men as if this Act had not been passed. No tax levied or any proceeding
taken for the collection of any such tax or the enforcement of the pay-
ment of the same, before the passage of this Act, or the taxes levied for
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, if levied after the passage
of this Act, shall in any manner be affected by the passage of this Act and
the mode of procedure in any such matter shall be the same as if this.
Act had not been passed.

Robinson v. Baltimore City, 93 Md. 208. Baltimore City v. Balto. Co. W. & E.
Co., 95 Md. 242.

1898, ch. 123, sec. 3.

Sec. 3. All laws now in force relating or applicable to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore or the City of Baltimore, and not included in
this Act, and not inconsistent with said Act, and all ordinances of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore now in force and not inconsistent
with this Act, shall be and they are hereby continued until changed or
repealed, respectively, by the General Assembly of Maryland or the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore; provided, that all Acts or parts of Acts
passed at the session of the General Assembly of Maryland in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, rela/ting to the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, or the City of Baltimore, or in any manner amending
or adding to Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, as said Article
existed before the passage of this Act, shall in no wise be affected by the
passage of this Act, but all such laws shall have the same force and effect
as if this Act had not been passed. The provisions of this Act shall not