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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for a public square or park, under any ordinance of

the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, authorized

by the law in force before the passage of the act of

the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-six,

chapter twenty, be and the same are hereby saved

and excepted from the effect of said act, ana hereby

declared valid; and especially the acts done and

proceedings had and began by the commissioners for

opening streets under the ordinance of said Mayor

and City Council, approved October twenty-fifth,

eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and entitled an

Ordinance to

ordinance to provide for the condemnation of the

provide.

vacant ground lying between Johnson, Hughes,

Covington and Warren streets, known as Federal

Hill, and the Observatory building located thereon,

for the purpose of a public square or park.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor

Empowered

and City Council be and the same are hereby em-

and directed.

powered and directed forthwith to proceed to acquire

by condemnation any land or ground for a public

square or park, in all cases wherein proceedings

were had or begun before the passage of this present

act ; and especially proceedings had and begun under

the ordinance mentioned in the preceding section,

and to conduct all such proceedings to 'final com-

pletion, as if the act passed at the January session of

Never been
enacted.

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter twenty,

had never been enacted.

In force.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21, 1878.

CHAPTER 145.

AN ACT to prevent the taking of fish with pound

or stake nets in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay

and its tributaries, bounding on and lying within

Harford county.

Shall take
shad or any
fish.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly
of Maryland, That no person shall take shad or