48 CITYOF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

purpose, purchase in the name and on behalf of the State, such
additional extent of grounds as the public wants may, in his
judgment, require; and may, if he deems it expedient, sell or
exchange for the benefit of the State, such portions of the
ground now belonging to the State, and purchase for said pur-
pose; provided, that no such sale or purchase shall be valid or
effectual, unless and until the same shall have been approved by
the Governor and Comptroller, nor shall the purchase money,
in case of such purchase, or any part thereof, be paid until the
Governor and Comptroller shall be satisfied as to the sufficiency
of the title or titles of the vender or vendors, and shall sign a
certificate to that effect, to be filed in the office of the Comp-
troller; and in case of any such purchase, the purchase money
therefore, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, upon the execution and delivery of a
conveyance therefor; and in case of such sale the purchase
money therefore shall be paid to the Comptroller; and upon
such payment the Comptroller, on behalf of the State, shall, in
the name of the State, execute and deliver a deed therefor to the

purchaser or purchasers thereof.

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32. In case any tort, trespass, or other wrong shall be done
by any person or persons, whatever, to any of the property
belonging to the State, and composing parcel of, or appertaining
to Said State cattle scales, it shall be the duty of the weigh-
master to sue for the same in the name of the State, as plaintiff)
in the Superior Court of Baltimore city, or in the Court of
Common Pleas for Baltimore city, or before any justice of the
peace of Baltimore, as the case may be; and no plea shall be
received on behalf of any defendant to the jurisdiction of said
court, either on the ground that the locality of the tort, trespass,
or other was in Baltimore county, or that the residence of said
defendant was in some part 'of the State, other than Baltimore
city.

33. All assaults, riots, or other criminal acts which may be
done or committed on the premises aforesaid, shall be cognizable
by the Criminal Court for Baltimore city, in the same manner