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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eighteen hundred and forty-nine, it was enacted

that upon compliance with the provisions of said

section by the Baltimore and Susquehannah Rail-

road Company, certain streets therein named

should be closed so far as they would pass through

the Bolton Depot grounds of said company, and

Preamble.

that no streets other than those named in said

section should ever be opened through said depot

grounds without the assent of the president and

directors of the said company; and whereas the

said Baltimore and Susquehannah Railroad Com-

pany and its successor, the Northern Central Rail-

way Company, have complied with the provisions

of said section; and whereas it is now represented

to the General Assembly of Maryland that the

convenience and interests of the public and of the

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore will be

greatly subserved if an arrangement can be made

whereby the said Bolton Depot shall be removed

from its present location, so that public thorough-

Preamble.

fares can be opened through the ground now

occupied by it; and whereas it has also been

represented to the General Assembly that the

Northern Central Railway Company is willing, in

order to subserve the interests and convenience

of the public and of the said Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, to dispose of the said depot

grounds, and establish a freight depot in another

location, provided suitable depot grounds are pro-

vided free of expense to it in consideration of its

surrender of the present depot grounds. There-

fore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Northern Central Railway

Company be and the same is hereby authorized

Acquire for

and empowered to acquire for depot purposes all

depot purpo-
ses.

that ground lying in the city of Baltimore, to-

gether with the improvements thereupon, and

escribed as follows, that is to say : all that por-

tion of the ground comprised within the following

boundaries, not now owned by said railway com-

pany, that is to say : Beginning for the same at

a point on the west side of the highway called

Cathedral street, where the north side of Oliver