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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the said chapter two hundred and eighty-

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four of the actti of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed

Acts 1872,
revised

at its January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

entitled "An act to in corporate the Baltimore, Hampden and

Lake Roland Railroad Company," be and the same is hereby

revived, ratified and confirmed, and that the organization

effected under said act and the corporate business done in

pursuance thereof, including the work done in the construc-

tion of said railway as above recited, and all the corporate

powers, rights, franchises and privileges granted by said

charter (except as hereinafter amended), be and the same

are hereby ratified and confirmed to have the same validity,

force and effect in law, as if the said act had contained no

limitation of time for the beginning and completion of said

railway, and the said corporation had been duly organized

in conformity with its charter immediately after the approval

of said act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the time for the comple-

Time ex-

tion of said railway be and the same is hereby extended to

tended for
completion

the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and

of rood.

ninety-four, and that the said Baltimore Hampden and

Lake Roland Railroad Company be, and it is hereby author-

ized to propel its cars in Baltimore County and in the northern

annex of Baltimore city, commonly known as the "Belt,"

by electricity, and if what is known as the "Trolley System,"

is used, to construct and maintain the necessary poles and

wires along and over its tracks, and to and from its power

houses for that purpose ; provided, however, that nothing

in this act shall be construed to authorize the said corpora-

tion to extend its poles, wires or tracks south of the old city

boundary line, at Boundary or North avenue, without the

Proviso.

con sent of the mayor and city council of Baltimore ; provided,

however, that if any improved and practicable system of

street car traction by electricity, not requiring poles and

overhead wires is desired, the right is reserved to the mayor

and city council to require the said company to adopt said

system and remove said poles and overhead wires, at any time

after the expiration of eight years from the passage of this

act, after giving the company not less than two years' notice

of its intention to require said removal and substitution.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Baltimore, Hamp-

den and Lake Roland Railroad Company shall have the power

Power to
condemn

to condemn land in the manner and for the purposes set out

in the seventh section of its said charter, or in the manner

and for the purposes prescribed for the condemnation of land

by railway corporations by article twenty-three of the Public