254 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

efit of its citizens. The resolution of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, appointing a Commission in relation to the
proposed public parks, approved June 4, 1860, and the ordi-
nance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to provide
for a public park or parks, approved June 21, 1860, are con-
firmed ; and all acts done, or which may hereafter be done, by
the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or the officers of
said City, or the Park Commission acting under the provi-
sions of the said resolution and ordinance, shall have the same
effect as if the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, prior
to the passage of said resolution and ordinance, had been ex-
pressly empowered, by Act of the General Assembly, to enact
a resolution and ordinance in the precise terms of said resolu-
tion and ordinance, and to provide for carrying the same into
effect. All the rights, privileges and authority heretofore
granted, by ordinance, to the Park Commission, are hereby
transferred to the Board of Park Commissioners as constituted
in this Article. The Board of Park Commissioners be and
hereby is authorized and empowered, upon and immediately
after the execution and delivery, by the owners thereof, of the
deed hereinafter referred to, to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, to assume exclusive jurisdiction and control over
the public highway known as Green Spring Avenue Road, ex-
tending from the north entrance of Druid Hill Park, through
parts of Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County, to the
Western Run bridge in Baltimore County, with full power in
said Board of Park Commissioners to regulate the use of the said
Green Spring Avenue Road as a highway, and to prescribe the
hours when and the manner in which manure carts, hay wagons
and all or any other description of vehicles may use the same,
and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation of such
regulations, in the same manner as it prescribes fines and
penalties for violations of the public park regulations. The
owners of said Green Spring Avenue Road are hereby author-
ized to grant, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are
hereby authorized to accept from said owners, a good and suffi-
cient deed for the bed of said road, subject to the rights of the
adjacent property-holders to use the same as a highway. From
and immediately after the acceptance by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, of the deed mentioned above, all obliga-