258 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be held to repeal the provisions of sections 33 to
50, both inclusive, of said article 91 of Code of 1904 of the
Public General Laws of Maryland, said sections being the codi-
fication of the several sections of the Act of 1904, chapter 225.

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

Approved March 25, 1908.

CHAPTER 304.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections 1,
2 and 6, of chapter 312 of the Laws of 1906, entitled "An
Act to provide for the construction of a State road or high-
way through Prince George's county, Howard and Balti-
more counties from Washington, D. C., to Baltimore, Md.,
and to make an additional appropriation for the completion
of State Road No. 1, " and also to appropriate the sum of
$8, 000 per year for the years 1908, 1909 and 1910 for the
same use for the purpose of continuing said work over the
bed of Columbia avenue easterly from the Baltimore city
limits to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company tracks.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 1, 2 and 6 of chapter 312 of the Laws of
1906, entitled "An Act to provide for the State road or high-
way through Prince George's, Howard and Baltimore coun-
ties, from Washington, D. C., to Baltimore, Md, " be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so that they will re-
spectively read as follows:

SEC. 1. That a public highway, to be known as State Road
No. 1, be and the same shall be constructed between the cities
of Washington and Baltimore, the course of which, as near as
practicable, shall be along the route of the old Baltimore and
Washington road; provided, however, that said road State No.
1, shall be constructed upon the present road-bed of the Balti-
more and Washington road from Waterloo, in Howard county,
to the village of Halethorpe, Baltimore county, and entering
the city of Baltimore at Columbia avenue, the bed of which, so
far as the same is vested in the State or the several counties
through which it passes hereby dedicated by way of easement or
fee simple, as the case may be, to the public use.

SEC. 2. The building, grading and construction of said road
shall be under the direction and control of the State Geologi-
cal and Economic Survey Commission, but in no place shall