ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 945

the financing of the acquisition of land or other property
for parks, parkways, forests, streets, roads, boulevards or
other public ways, grounds or spaces within the District,
or for the improvement or development of the same, the
Commission may receive and expend any contributions,
donations or appropriations which may be made for such
purposes or any of them by the United States or by the
District of Columbia or by the State of Maryland or by any
other political community or by any private person; pro-
vided, however, the title of any such land or property shall
not be placed in or granted to the United States or in or to
any person, corporation or political community other than
the District itself or the State of Maryland without the
approval of the General Assembly of Maryland, nor shall
the control, maintenance, operation or policing of any such
park, parkway, forest, street, road, boulevard or other
public way, ground or space within the District be placed
in or surrendered to the United States or to any other per-
son, corporation or political community, other than the
Commission itself without the approval of the General As-
sembly of Maryland. Provided, however, that nothing in
this Act shall be deemed to limit or restrict the police
power of the State of Maryland or of the respective coun-
ties in which the respective park, parkway, forest, street,
road, boulevard or other public way, ground or space shall
be located. Lands acquired hereunder, title to which shall
become vested in the State of Maryland, shall be held by
the said State for the general benefit of the citizens of the
State of Maryland and especially for the benefit of the
citizens and residents of Montgomery and Prince George's
County, respectively, within the said Maryland-Washington
Metropolitan District; provided that title to such lands
shall not be conveyed out of the State, nor shall such use
be extinguished without the concurrent action of this
Commission.

The Commission shall have the power to negotiate, enter
into and make arrangements with the aforesaid National
Capital Park and Planning Commission or other federal
agency or with representatives of the State of Virginia or
with other official corporations of Montgomery and Prince
George's Counties relating to the acquisition, development
or improvement of land and other property within the Dis-
trict for said purposes or any of them, but shall not obli-
gate itself or the District for expenditures beyond the
amount of funds in its possession or to be available to it
from bonds, taxes, donations, contributions or appropria-
tions as provided for or referred to in this Act.