JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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passed at the session of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
chapter one hundred and twenty-three, by repealing Section
ninety-three, and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 93 of article four of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore,''

CHAP. 92.

sub-title "Charter," as amended by the Act of the General
Assembly, passed at the session of eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, chapter one hundred and twenty-three, be and
the same is hereby repealed, and that said section ninety-three
"of said article four of the Code of Public Local Laws of
'Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore," sob-title "Charter,"
be and the same is hereby re-enacted with amendments, so as
to read as follows :

93. The board of park commissioners is authorized and
empowered to regulate the speed of vehicles and equestrians
within one mile of the approach and within the limits of said

Repeal.

parks and squares, and to impose the tines provided for in the
preceding section for the violation of any regulations it may
establish in this connection, to be recovered as therein provided ;
but the said board of park commissioners shall have no
authority to pass any rule or regulation excluding automobiles
from the free use of the parks, squares and roadways under
its control, nor shall the said board of park commissioners
have authority to pass any rule or regulation requiring vehicles,
equestrians or automobiles to travel at a slower rate of speed
than six miles per hour.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 27, 1902.

CHAPTER 93.
AN ACT to pay the School Commissioners of Garrett County
a sum of money out of the State School Tax.
WHEREAS, In view of the pressure of the present appor-

Regulate the
speed of
Vehicles and
equestrians.

tionment specially upon Garrett county of the State school tax
and her inability without larger increase of county taxation to
keep open her schools for more than four or five months, and
in view of the fact that mountain ridges so divide the popula-
tion of Garrett county, the largest county of the State in area,
as to render school facilities for all of the children more ex-
pensive than in more central parts of the State ; and

Preamble.