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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

owners refuse or cannot lawfully accept the same, until said
building or buildings are removed, and until said property shall
be required by the city for its purposes under the condemnation
proceedings.

New section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
added to article 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
" City of Baltimore," sub-title " Streets, Bridges and High-
ways," to come in immediately after section 806, and to be
known as section 806 1/2, and to read as follows :

City may buy
property in
fee.

806 1/2. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed, whenever it shall be
necessary to acquire property for the purpose of opening,
extending, widening or straightening, in whole or in part, any
street, square, lane or alloy in Baltimore city, to obtain the fee
simple interest therein.

Effective.

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

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 313.

AN ACT to regulate the measurement of seasoned cord wood
in this State, when sold in quantities of not less than one-
half cord, and to repeal and re-enact with amendments
Sections 529 and 530 of Article 4 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title " City of Baltimore," sub title " Wood
Carts."

Cord wood to
be measured.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be unlawful for any person, in either
purchasing or selling seasoned cord wood in quantities of not
less than one-half cord at any one time, to measure and settle
for the same, except on the basis of one hundred and twenty-
eight cubic feet to each cord of wood; and that the said con-
tents of a cord of wood shall be ascertained by lineal or outside
measurement, as follows : it shall be eight feet long, four feet
high and four feet wide.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted. That any person violating the pro-
visions of the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a