ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 623

public use, whether belonging to private individuals or to
turnpike companies or other corporations, and including
any avenues, roads, lanes or thoroughfares, rights or in-
terests, franchises, privileges or easements, that may be,
in its judgment, desirable or necessary to complete said
system of roads to carry out the purpose of this Act; con-
tract with any person or persons, company or corporation,
either private or quasi-public, or municipal, in furtherance
of the duties and objects of this Act or any of the same;
employ all necessary attorneys, consultants, agents, labor-
ers help and assistants, skilled and unskilled, technical or
professional, for the promotion of any of the work with
which it is charged hereunder, make and enter into any
and all contracts, agreements or stipulations germane to
the scope of its duties and powers under this Act; and pur-
chase all machines, machinery, tools, implements, appli-
ances, supplies, materials and working agencies whatsoever
which it may deem necessary for the full performance and
completion of any of the powers conferred and duties im-
posed upon said Commission, or which may be germane to
the same or to the purposes and objects of this Act, and
Where rights, easements and franchises of the United Rail-
ways and Electric Company of Baltimore, its successors
and assigns, exist upon any turnpike or private right of
way in the Annex which may be improved hereunder, then
said rights, easements and franchises may (if the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore and said railways company,
its successors and assigns fail to agree upon terms of pur-
chase or surrender) be condemned by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore under the provisions of Chapter 274
of the Acts of 1904, and Chapter 566 of the Acts of 1906,
or in the exercise of its general powers of condemnation,
the cost thereof to be defrayed out of the loan provided for
in said first mentioned Act, or out of the ordinary proceeds
of municipal taxation; provided, however, that the pro-
visions of said Act of 1906 shall be obligatory upon, and
not discretionary with, the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore and the Board of Estimates, and the price to be
charged for new rights, franchises and easements similar
to those condemned, shall be the same as the amount of the
condemnation award.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 15 of
Article 33A of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "Eminent Domain, " be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows: