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CHAP 566
Payment of
park tax.
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Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore in any of the
roads within the limits of that part of Baltimore city known
as the annex, as to which roads the said street railway
company is not legally liable to the payment of the
park tax hereinafter mentioned, or in any part or parts
of said roads, or any of them, shall in any manner
be acquired by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
pursuant to the authority conferred upon by Chapter 274 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland for the year
1904, and ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, No. 216, approved March 11, 1905, or by any
other laws or ordinances relating to the powers and duties
of the Commissioners for Opening Streets under said Acts,
and application or applications shall afterwards be made by
the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, subject to the
provisions of Sections 7-12, both inclusive, and Section 37
of Article 4, entitled " City of Baltimore," of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, for the franchise or right
to use the beds of said roads, or any of them, for its
railway lines, and the ordinance or ordinances making
said application or applications, shall be duly passed by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, then with the con-
sent of the board of estimates, expressed in said ordi-
nance or ordinances, the park tax of nine per centum
upon the gross receipts of passenger street railway com-
panies in the city of Baltimore, now prescribed and regu-
lated by Sections 797-800, both inclusive, of Article 4
entitled "City of Baltimore," of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, shall, as to the bed or beds of the
public highway or highways, covered by said ordinance, or
ordinances, and for the period of eleven years, accounting
from the date or respective dates of passage of said ordinance
or ordinances, be payable and paid by the said United Rail-
ways and Electric Company of Baltimore, its successors and
assigns, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as
follows: For the first three years of said period of eleven
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