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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

vided to be paid by it to the said Northern Cen-

tral Railway Company, or to make such other use

and disposition of the said ground as shall seem

most desirable to the said Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That as soon

as the Northern Central Railway Company shall

Deeds to be

have delivered to the said Mayor and City Coun-

delivered.

cil of Baltimore the deeds for the lot of ground

now used as its Bolton Depot, and described in

the fourth section of this act, the said Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore may proceed under its

ordinances to open through said property such

street or streets as it may think desirable, and

from thenceforth the provisions of the third sec-

tion of the act of Assembly of Maryland, of eigh-

teen hundred and forty-nine, chapter five hundred

and thirty-two, so far as the same closes or cove-

nants to close any streets through E aid property,

Repealed.

shall be and are hereby declared to be repealed;

and the faith of the Srate of Maryland is hereby

pledged to and the said State does hereby con-

tract with the said Northern Central Railway

Company, that upon making of the deed by it to

the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as

provided for in the fourth section of this act, no

No streets to

streets shall ever be opened through the ground

be opened.

described in the first section of this act; and the

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, upon the

receipt of the said deed from the Northern Cen-

tral Railway Company, shall proceed immediately

to take such steps as are required by law (if any

are needed) to close all that portion of the road

called Cathedral street, which lies north of the

north side of Oliver street, and extending to

North Avenue.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said North-

ern Central Railway Company shall not be com-

pelled to deliver possession of the said Bolton

Depot grounds until the expiration of four months

When to de-
liver.

from the time it shall be entitled to obtain pos-

session of all the ground described in the first

section of this act, nor until four months from

the time it shall be authorized by law to take pos-

session of the ground now covered by what is