FRANK BROWN, ESQURE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 388.

AN ACT to authorize the President, Managers and Company
of the Baltimore and York town Turnpike Road to cede and
convey the same upon certain terms to the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the President, Managers and Company of
the Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike Road are hereby
authorized and empowered, when the said turnpike road shall
he graded between Towsontown and the northern limits of
Baltimore city, so as to conform to the grades of that portion
of the same occupied by the tracks of the City and Suburban
Railway Company, and to afford a clear space of thirty feet in
breadth outside of the railway for the use of public travel,
and when at least twenty feet there shall be made an artificial
road, which shall be bedded with stone well compacted together
a sufficient depth to secure a solid foundation to the same, and
shall be faced with gravel or pounded stone or other small,
hard substance, so as to secure a firm and even surface, to cede
and convey said road, and so much thereof as shall not be
occupied by the City and Suburban Railway for the use of its
tracks, to the County Commissioners of Baltimore county.

May cede
turnpike
road to
county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore county, upon the completion of the work
specified in the first section of this act. and upon their being
satisfied that said work has been satisfactorily and properly
done, are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to
purchase all that portion of said turnpike road, between the
Pennsylvania State line of the northern limits of Baltimore
city, not occupied by the City and Suburban Railway and the
superstructure of its tracks, and to pay for the same such sum
as in their judgment shall be proper compensation for said
turnpike road, not to exceed the sum of twenty-two thousand
dollars; and upon the consummation of such purchase and the
passage of a proper and suitable deed from the said Turnpike
Company to the said County Commissioners, the said road
shall be a county road, to be kept up by the county as other
county roads, and no tolls to be charged thereon; that the
County Commissioners of Baltimore county shall be exempt
from liability for damages arising from the grading of said
turnpike road.

County Com-
missioners
authorized
to purchase.