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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Control of
Green
Spring
Avenue
road.

present constituted, or as it may hereafter be constituted by
ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, passed
from time to time, be and hereby is authorized and empowered,
upon and immediately after the execution and delivery by the
owners thereof of the deed hereinafter referred to, to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; to assume exclusive
jurisdiction and control over the public highway known as the
Green Spring Avenue Road, extending from the north
entrance of Druid Hill Park, through parts of Baltimore city
and parts of Baltimore county, to the Western Run bridge in
Baltimore county, with full power in the said Public Park
Commission to regulate the use of said Green Spring Avenue
Road as a highway, and to prescribe the hours when and the
manner in which manure carts, hay wagons and all or any
other description of vehicles may use the same, and to pre-
scribe fines and penalties for the violations of said regulations,
in the samg manner as they now prescribe fines and penalties
for the violations of the public park regulations.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owners of said

Deed for
road.

Green Spring Avenue Road are hereby authorized to grant,
and :the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby
authorized to accept from said owners, a good and sufficient
deed for the bed of said road, subject to the rights of the ad-
jacent property-holders to use the same as a highway.

Keeping road
in repair.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and immedi-
ately after the acceptance by the Mayor and City Council of
the deed mentioned in the last section of this act, all obliga-
tion and duty upon the part either of the owners of said
Green Spring Avenue Road or of the public authorities of
Baltimore county, to keep or maintain said road in repair, shall
cease, and that from and immediately after said time, the sole
obligation to keep and maintain said road in proper repair
shall rest upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1896.