PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3975

neering data and other records of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission are hereby made available for the use of the Commission,
and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is hereby directed
to furnish, at cost, such engineering service and advice as may be re-
quested from time to time by the Commission. For the purpose of financ-
ing or assisting in the financing of the acquisition of land or other prop-
erty for parks; parkways, forests, streets, roads, boulevards or other public
ways, grounds or spaces within the District, or for the improvement or
development of the same, the Commission may receive and expend any
contributions, donations or appropriations which may be made for such
purposes or any of them by the United States or by the District of Co-
lumbia or by the State of Maryland or by any other political community
or by any private person; provided, however, the title of any such land
or property shall not be placed in or granted to the United States or in or
to any person, corporation or political community other than the District
itself without the approval of the General Assembly of Maryland, nor
shall the control, maintenance, operation or policing of any such park,
parkway, forest, street, road, boulevard or other public way, ground or
space within the District be placed in or surrendered to the United States
or to any other person, corporation or political community other than the
Commission itself without the approval of the General Assembly of Mary-
land. The Commission shall have the power to negotiate, enter into and
make agreements with the aforesaid National Capital Park and Planning
Commission or other federal agency or with representatives of the State
of Virginia or with other official corporations of Montgomery and Prince
George's Counties relating to the acquisition, development or improve-
ment of land and other property within the District for said purposes or
any of them, but shall not obligate itself or the District for expenditures
beyond the amount of funds in its possession or to be available to it from
bonds, taxes, donations, contributions or appropriations as provided for
or referred to in this Act.

1927, ch. 448, aec. 7.

726. For the purpose of carrying out the plan or any part thereof, the
Commission shall have the power to acquire for parks, parkways, forests,
streets, roads, boulevards or other public ways, grounds or spaces, by
means of donations, purchase or condemnation, land or other property
located within the District. All land or other property acquired by the
Commission for these purposes or any of them shall be exempt from state,
county and municipal taxes. The Commission shall have the power to
improve and develop land or other property so acquired by it for said pur-
poses and shall have the control of the maintenance and operation thereof.
No general regulation governing such public ways, grounds or open spaces
within either Montgomery or Prince George's County shall go into effect
unless and until it receive the affirmative vote of at least two members of
the Commission from such County.