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use at the said Bolton Depot; and if the Mayor

shall be of opinion that the sum so named is in

excess of the cost of the said improvements, then

the matter shall be referred to the decision of

To be submit-
ted to arbitra-

arbitrators, one to be named by the said Mayor,

tion.

and one by the said Northern Central Railway

Company, the two thus selected shall select a

third, and the decision of the majority of said

arbitrators to bind and determine the amount of

money needed to make the said improvements.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case

the said Northern Central Railway Company can-

not, within ninety days from the passage of this

act, agree with the owners of the property de-

scribed in the first section of this act, upon the

price to be paid to them for the said property, it

shall proceed forthwith thereafter to excercise the

Powers of con-
demnation.

powers of condemnation given in the said first sec-

tion of this act, and when such inquisitions as

shall be requisite to enable said company to acquire

title to all of the said property shall have been

finally ratified and confirmed, the said Northern

Central Railway Company shall, within ten days

thereafter, file with the Mayor of the City of

Baltimore a statement showing the total amount

File state-

of money required to pay for the acquisition of

ment.

the said property. If upon the filing of said

statement the mayor shall be of opinion that the

aggregate of the said sum, and of the sum requir-

ed to adapt the said grounds for depot purposes as

ascertained in the mode provided for in the second

section of this act, is too great a sum to be paid

for the accomplishment of the objects described

Mayor to cer-
tify.

in the preamble of this act, he shall, within twen-

ty days from the day on which said statement shall

have been filed with him, so certify to the said

Northern Central Railway Company; and there-

upon no further or other proceedings under this

act shall take place; and the said Northern Cen-

tral Railway Company may then give the notice

of abandonment of said inquisition authorized to

Abandon in-

be given by the one hundred and thirty-third sec-

quisition.

tion of article sixty-four of the Code of Public

General Laws of Maryland of eighteen hundred

and seventy-eight, and giving said notice, shall