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to acquire full and complete title to said ten-foot alley by
purchase from the owners thereof, or by condemnation pro-
ceedings, if the same shall be necessary, said condemnation
proceedings to be conducted in the mode prescribed for the con-
demnation of private property for public use by the provisions
of sections 251 and 252 of article 23 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of this State, of 1904, title "Corporations, " sub-title
"Railroad Companies. " In like manner, if in the judgment of
the Board of Public Works and said special Commission
appointed by said hereinbefore recited Act, it shall become nec-
essary and expedient in the location and construction of said
proposed new State Tobacco Warehouse to acquire title to the
whole or any part of the open space immediately adjacent to
said State Tobacco Warehouse property on the south, extend-
ing from the east side of Charles street to the west side of
Light street as recently widened, then and in that event the
said Commission appointed by said hereinbefore mentioned Act
shall be and they are hereby expressly authorized to acquire
title to the whole or part of said open space to the south of said
State Tobacco Warehouse property by purchase or by con-
demnation, as hereinbefore provided in respect of the ten-foot
alley bordering on said State Tobacco Warehouse property on
the east.

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

Approved April, 1908.

ARTICLE LI.

JURIES.

CHAPTER 477.

AN ACT to repeal an Act passed at the January Session nine-
teen hundred, of the General Assembly of Maryland, Chapter
sixty-two, entitled An Act to add an additional section to
Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
entitled "Juries, " to be known as Section twenty-three, and
to follow Section twenty-two, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section twenty-three of Article 51 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Juries, " as enacted
by Chapter 62 of the Acts of 1900, be and the same is hereby
repealed and is hereby re-enacted with amendments, to read as
follows: