ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 245. The county commissioners shall annually pay to the

mayor and city council of Laurel when and as collected (but less

the expenses of collection) all taxes levied or taxed for public

Road tax.

roads on property within the limits of said town, which shall be

expended by the said mayor and city council in the repair and

improvements of the streets and roads within the limits of said

town.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the following additional section be and the same is hereby

To add.

added to said article seventeen, to be known as "Section two hun-

dred and forty-six A."

246 A. The mayor and city council shall have all powers here-

tofore granted to the commissioners of Laurel by any act of assem-

bly not hereby expressly repealed, and shall assume and be liable

for all obligations assumed by the commissioners of Laurel or

heretofore imposed by any act of assembly not herein expressly

repealed by this act, and the commissioners of Laurel now in office

Powers
and liabil-

shall, until the qualification of the mayor and city council exer-

ities.

cise all the powers and be liable for the performance of all duties

imposed upon them by said article seventeen, and all ordinances

heretofore passed or that may be passed by the commissioners of

Laurel in the meantime, shall until repealed by the mayor and

city council be of the same force and effect as if adopted by the

mayor and city council.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved March 25, 1890.

CHAPTER 202.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay for land that

may be acquired for the extension of the Maryland penitentiary

and for the erection of necessary buildings thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000,)

To appro

be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the

priate.

treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the land that may

be acquired for the extension of the Maryland penitentiary and

for the erection of necessary buildings thereon.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller is

liereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant on the treas-

urer, payable to the order of the board of directors of the Mary-

land penitentiary, for the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars

($25,000,) annually for the years eighteen hundred and ninety,