832 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

recently annexed to the said city of Baltimore, which had prior
to such annexation become streets, avenues or alleys in Baltimore
county, whether by deed or dedication shall be held for all pur-
poses to validly constitute streets, avenues or alleys of Baltimore
city, in all respects as if the same had been legally condemned as.
such by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

		CHAPTER 629.
		AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Crisfleld, Lawson's,
		Brinkley's, Fairmont, St. Peter's, Dame's Quarter, Tangier,
		Mount Vernon and Smith's Island districts, of Somerset county,
		to determine by ballot whether the catching or taking of oys-
		ters with scoop, scrape, drag, dredge or any similar instrument
		in any of the waters of Somerset county shall be prohibited.
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Maryland,
		That the question whether or not the catching or taking of oys-
		ters with scoop, scrape, drag, dredge or any similar instrument
		in the waters of Somerset county shall be prohibited, shall be
		submitted to the legally qualified voters in Crisfield, Lawson's,
		Brinkley's, Fairmount, St. Peter's, Dame's Quarter, Tangier,
		Mount Vernon and Smith's Island districts in Somerset county,
		on the second Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety,
	To submit	(the same being the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and
	to vote.	ninety,) which election shall be held in accordance with the law
		controlling elections in this State, and in said Somerset county
		before the enactments on elections, passed at the January session
		of the General Assembly for the year eighteen hundred and
		ninety, so that the law passed at said January session of eighteen
		hundred and ninety shall not govern said election, but the law in
		force prior to the passage of said act of eighteen hundred and
		ninety; and the sheriff of Somerset county shall give notice of
		the time and purpose and place of said election by handbills
		posted in at least five public places in each of said districts and
		one at the court house door in Princess Anne, and by advertise-
		ment published in two newspapers printed in said county, at least ten days before said election, in which notices a copy of this act
		shall be inserted; and the expense of said election, including the
		costs of printing the handbills aforesaid, shall be levied by the
		commissioners of said county and paid as other county expenses
		are paid; and at the election aforesaid, the judges of election