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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 456

ten dollars ($10) per annum for the next succeeding three
years in addition to the regular percentage required under
the Special Pension Act.

SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 457.

AN ACT to prohibit the laying of tracks for a steam railroad
in Howard county and also within a certain prescribed
area in Baltimore County lying within the Thirteenth, First,
Third, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteeeth Election Districts of
said Baltimore County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation

Prohibit the
laying of
tracks for a
steam rail-
way in
certain
localities.

to lay any track for a steam railway within that portion of
Howard county which is described as follows, that is to say :
The circumference of a circle whose center is at the place
where the road known as the "Lawyers Hill " road connects
with the road known as the " Montgomery " road, and having
a radius of two miles; excepting, however, that portions of
the territory above described which lies south and east of
the right of way of the Washington Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. And it shall also be unlawful for any
person or corporation to lay any tracks for a steam railway
within that portion of Baltimore county which is described
as follows, that is to say: Beginning at the intersection of
the west boundary line of the city of Baltimore with the
south boundary line of the said city, and running thence in
a southwesterly direction to a point three miles south of a
point two miles west of the said intersection; thence in a
northwesterly direction to a place on the Baltimore and
Frederick turnpike known as Gray's; thence by a straight line
to a point where the Western Maryland Railroad tracks crosses
the Baltimore and Reisterstown turnpike at or near Owings
Mills in Baltimore county; thence easterly by a straight
line to the Northern Central Railroad at a point northerly
one-half mile from Timonium station as now located; thence