684 LAWS OF MARYLAND..

tion of property for Esplanades and the Like,' " and to re-en-
act said parts of section 6 with amendments under the title
'Condemnation of Property/ providing for the condemnation
of property required for public or municipal uses, and also in
some instances property adjacent thereto, and for sale of
such adjacent property, subject to restrictions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sub-division, entitled "Condemnation of Prop-
erty," of section 6 of article 4 of the Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," as enacted by chapter 123
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of the year
1898, and also the paragraph added to the same section, imme-
diately after the above-mentioned sub-division, by chapter 397
of the Acts of 1906 of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-
titled "An Act to add a new paragraph to section 6 of article 4,
entitled 'City of Baltimore,' of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, to come in immediately after the conclusion of the
paragraph in said section, entitled 'Condemnation of Property,'
and to be entitled 'Condemnation of Property for Esplanades
and the Like,'" be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: Condemnation of Property—
To acquire by purchase or condemnation any land or any in-
terest therein which it may require for schoolhouses, engine-
houses, courthouses, markets, streets, bridges and their ap-
proaches, the establishment or enlargement of parks, squares,
gardens or other public places, the establishment of esplanades,
boulevards, parkways, park grounds or public reservations,
around, adjacent, opposite, or in proximity or leading to any
public building or buildings, or which it may require for any
other public or municipal purpose; and also any and all land
and property or interest in land and property adjoining and ex-
tending such distance as may be adjudged necessary from any
property in use or about to be acquired for such esplanade,
boulevard, parkway, park grounds or public reservation, as
aforesaid, the use of which said adjacent property it may be
deemed necessary or beneficial to subject to lawful restrictions
or control, in order to better protect or enhance the usefulnes
of such public building or buildings, or in any manner to pro-
mote the interests of the public therein, or to more fully effectu-
ate the purposes of the establishment of such esplanade, boule-
vard, parkway, park grounds or public reservations; and to sell
thereafter such adjacent lands or property, subject to such res-
ervations or restrictions as to the subsequent use thereof, as may
appear advisable for the protection of such public building or
buildings, or for enhancing the usefulness thereof, or in any man-
ner to promote the interests of the public therein, or for better