WILLIAM T. HAMILTON. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 739

	CHAPTER 469.
	AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Coun-
	cil of Baltimore to accept a surrender of a lease
	of property located on Block street, in Baltimore
	city, from Mrs. Anne E. Dorsey, and to make a
	new lease of the same in accoadance with an
	agreement between the said parties, recorded
	among the land records of Baltimore city, in Liber
	F. A. P., No. 848, folio 175, &c.
	WHEREAS, in tha improvement of Jones Falls,
	under an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council
	of Baltimore, it became necessary for the said mayor
	and city council to acquire the leasehold interest in
	and to certain parts of property located on Block
	street, in the city of Baltimore, the fee to which was	Preamble.
	in the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
	and to prevent a merger in the acquisition of the
	same, it was necessary for the said Mayor and City
	Council of Baltimore to obtain a surrender of the
	present lease, and to make a new lease of the same ;
	therefore,
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the said Mayor and City
	Council of Baltimore be and they are hereby author-
	ized and empowered to accept a surrender of the
	leasehold interest of Anne E. Dorsey, in and to cer-
	tain property located on Block street, in the city of
	Baltimore, more particularly described in an agree- ment hereinafter referred to, and to make a new	Accept a sur- render.
	lease of the same to the said Anne E. Dorsey, in
	accordance with the terms of an agreement between
	Anne E. Dorsey, Alien Dorsey, and Francis Hutch-
	inson, trustee, and the Mayor and City Council of
	Baltimore, recorded among the land records of Balti-
	more city, in Liber F. A. P., No. 840, folio 175, &c.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 10, 1880.