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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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as the mayor and city council may deem expedient
and proper.
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Authority
to
purchase property
of any
other company.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That the mayor and
city council of Baltimore, be and they are hereby authorised
to purchase all the property, estates, rights and
privileges of any chartered company authorised to introduce,
or which may hereafter be authorised to introduce
water into said city, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon by the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
and such corporation or corporations in the manner
prescribed in their respective charters, or in the absence
of such provision as shall be agreed upon by the
said mayor and city council of Baltimore, and such corporation
or corporations, and that such corporation was
hereby authorised to execute conveyance or conveyances
to the said mayor and city council of Baltimore,
of all the franchises and property of said corporation,
and all such rights, privileges and franchises shall be
vested in the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to
be held, exercised and enjoyed by the said mayor and
city council of Baltimore, as fully in every respect as
might or could have been done by any such corporation
or corporations under their respective charters.
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Not lawful to
submerge
land to distance
of more
than 80 feet.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That it shall not be
lawful in making or constructing any dam at Raven's
Rocks, to submerge any land to the distance of more
than eighty feet from the present banks of the Gunpowder
Falls, or of its tributaries, unless with the consent
of the owner of the land that shall be submerged.
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In force.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted,
That this act shall go
into effect from the day of its passage.
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Passed May
26, 1853.
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CHAPTER 377.
AN ACT to authorise the closing of an Alley in
Cumberland.
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Authority to
vacate and
close up alley.
Proviso.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Bernard Hafkensheid, Patrick A.
Healey, and the German Catholic congregation of Cumberland,
in Allegany county, be, and they are hereby authorised
to vacate and close up that part of Plum alley,
in the town of Cumberland, which extends from Fayette
street to Cumberland street, in said town; Provided,
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