FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Said joint stock water company and said mayor and council ;
'and for the purposes of meeting the expenses caused thereby,
the said mayor and council are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to levy annually, in addition to the taxes now authorized
by law, upon the taxable property within the corporate limits
of Hagerstown, a tax, to be levied and collected the same as
other corporation taxes are levied and collected, sufficient to
pay the sum due annually for the erection, maintenance and
supply of water thereto of said additional fire plugs; and the
said taxes levied and collected for the purposes aforesaid, shall
be kept as a separate fund and shall not be used for any other
purpose than to pay said joint stock water company said annual
sum for the erection, maintenance and supply of water thereto
of said additional fire plugs.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 16th, 1894.

CHAPTER 116.

AN ACT to add a supplement to the Act of 1804, Chapter
51, entitled "An Act to incorporate companies to make sev-
eral turnpike roads through Baltimore County, and for other
purposes; and to authorize the widening of the turnpike
road of the " President, Managers and Company of the Bal-
timore, Yorktown Turnpike Road " between the northern
limits of Baltimore City and Towsontown.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the "President, Managers and Company of
the Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike Road," be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to widen the turnpike, or
any portion thereof, of said company, between the northern
limits of Baltimore city and Towsontown, so that the said road
when so widened shall not exceed one hundred feet in width
at the greatest surface thereof, instead of the present width of
sixty-six feet as now allowed by law; and in case the said com-
pany shall not be able to agree with the owners of any land

May widen
turnpike.