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imposed upon said commission, or which may be germane to
the same or to the purposes and objects of this Act, and where
rights, easements and franchises of the United Railways and
Electric Company of Baltimore, its successors and assigns,
exist upon any turnpike or private right of way in the Annex
which may be improved hereunder, then said rights, easements
and franchises may (if the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more and said railways company, its successors and assigns
fail to agree upon terms of purchase or surrender) be con-
demned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under
the provisions of chapter 274 of the Acts of 1904, and chapter
566 of the Acts of 1906, or in the exercise of its general powers
of condemnation, the cost thereof to be defrayed out of the
loan provided for in said first mentioned Act, or out of the
ordinary proceeds of municipal taxation; provided, however,
that the provisions of said Act of 1906 shall be obligatory upon,
and not discretionary with, the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore and the Board of Estimates, and. the price to be
charged for new rights, franchises and easements similar to
those condemned, shall be the same as the amount of the con-
demnation award.

32c. If the State Roads Commission shall determine that the
public necessity or convenience, or that the purposes of this
Act require that any turnpike, or part thereof, whether main-
tained as such by any turnpike company or otherwise, or
whether formerly maintained as such and now abandoned by
any turnpike company, or that any public road in whole or in
part in any county or counties, and forming a section of a
through route or continuous thoroughfare between two or more
important points in the State, should be taken charge of by said
commission for the State for the purposes of this Act, then, as
to such public road or abandoned or acquired turnpike, whether
acquired by purchase or condemnation, the said commission
shall file a certified copy of the plan thereof in the office of
the County Commissioners for the county or the several coun-
ties in which said section or sections of road or turnpike may
be situated, and setting forth its purpose to acquire and to take
over the same, and said commission thereupon, without any
further procedure, shall acquire and take over any such and all
county roads, turnpikes or sections thereof or interests or
rights therein, as in its judgment may be necessary or proper
for the purpose of this Act, and with full power to widen, re-
locate, change or alter the grade or location thereof; and said
commission shall have full power so to take over and take pos-
session of any county road or abandoned turnpike, and to
accept by gift or surrender, and to acquire by purchase or con-