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the provisions of this Act, be annexed to and made part of Baltimore
City; and thereupon all the provisions of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land relating to Baltimore County, except as hereinafter otherwise pro-
vided, shall cease to be in force in such portions of Baltimore County as
shall, under the provisions of this Act, be annexed to and made part of
Baltimore City, and all the provisions of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land relating to Anne Arundel County, except as hereinafter otherwise
provided, shall cease to be in force in such portions of Anne Arundel
County as shall, under the provisions of this Act, be annexed to and
made part of Baltimore City. But nothing herein, or elsewhere in this
Act, shall affect the power of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to amend or repeal any ordinance existing at the date of the passage of
this Act. Any reference herein to existing laws shall be understood to
include any amendment or amendments which may be made to such laws
at any time hereafter.

Barnes v. United Rys. & E. Co., 140 Md. 14.

Pole Tax Ordinance applies to Annex. Balto, v. C. & P. Tel. Co., 142 Md. 79.
C. & P. Tel. Co. v. Balto., 145 Md. 71.

1918, ch. 82, sec. 3.

Sec. 3. And lie it further enacted, That the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall be and hereby axe authorized and required to cause
the metes and bounds described in the first section of this Act to be forth-
with surveyed and distinctly marked, and suitable boundary stones, marked
as boundaries of the said city, to be placed at the beginning and at the
termination of each line; and boundary stones marked as aforesaid, and
not at a greater distance than fifty perches from each other, to- be placed
on all the lines which are not in the water and do not run with some
natural boundary; and that the said Mayor and City Council shall cause
three plats of the said survey to be made and duly certified as hereinafter
provided, one of which shall be returned to and recorded in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, another of which
shall be returned to and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County, and the third shall be returned to and
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, and copies of the said plats, duly certified by the keepers of the said
records for the time being, respectively, and under their respective seals
of office, shall be admitted as evidence in all courts within this State.
The said survey, so far as it relates to the boundary hereby established
between Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County, shall be made under
the direction of the Chief Engineer of the Topographical Survey Com-
mission of Baltimore City and the Surveyor of Anne Arundel County,
and so far as the same relates to the boundary hereby established between
Baltimore City and Baltimore County shall be made under the direction
of the Chief Engineer of the Topographical Survey Commission of Bal-
timore City and the Surveyor of Baltimore County. In the event of any
disagreement between the Chief Engineer of the Topographical Survey