EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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conferred on such corporations by any amendment to said
Article 23; this right of condemnation to apply to gravel
pits or quarries as well as to land, and whenever it shall be
necessary to cross any streams the bridges over the same
shall be constructed of permanent materials and in a modern
manner.
SEC. 4. Whenever any railroad or railway company here-
after constructed shall cross said road it shall be required

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to keep its own roadbed and the bed of the said highway in
proper repair or else to have constructed an overhead or
undergrade crossing subject to the approval of the said com-
mission or in conformity to the provisions of Article 23 of
the Code of Public General Laws as to crossings of railroad
companies in regard to flagmen and electric bells; and the
tracks of such railroads or railways shall be so constructed
as to give absolutely safe and easy approach to and crossing
thereof; and in case of failure so to construct, the said com-
mission shall construct the same, and upon certification of
said construction and the cost thereof, after due notification
to such company to construct and its failure so to do the
cost thereof shall ex parte be rendered a judgment against
such company by any justice of the peace in such counties
before whom such proceedings shall have been instituted.
SEC. 5. For the purpose of building and constructing and
maintaining said road or highway, the said commission is

Roadbed to be
kept in
repair.

hereby authorized and directed to make requisition on the
directors of the Maryland House of Correction for as many
immates thereof as may be necessary for the said purpose of
building and contracting said highway, and the said
directors are hereby directed to furnish the same with such
guards or keepers as can be spared from their duties at said
House of Correction, and any additional guards or keepers
necessary to the safe keeping of said inmates shall be fur-
nished and appointed by said commission. The said com-
mission shall, in conjunction with the aforesaid board of
directors of the House of Correction, provide for the main-
tenance and safekeeping of said inmates of the House of
Correction.
SEC. 6. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of

Requisition to
be made on
House of Cor-
rection for
bands.

this Act the sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby appro-
priated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to be used during the current year of 1906,

Appropriation.