634 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 142.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to publish notices in German newspapers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

or any official, officer, employe, agent or agency thereof, shall
be required or authorized under the provisions of any general
or local law, or ordinance, now in force or hereafter to be
enacted or adopted, to publish a notice of any description
whatsoever in more than one newspaper, one of such news-
papers, in the discretion of the said municipal corporation, or
of the said official, officer, employe, agent or agency thereof,
may be a newspaper published in the German language, and
«uch publication shall under such circumstances have the same
validity in all respects as if such newspaper was published
in the English language, but nothing in this Act .shall be taken
as affecting the provisions of section 49 of article 4, title "City
of Baltimore," of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

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

Approved March 25, 1908.

OUTFALL SEWER FOR BALTIMORE CITY—See Chapter
98, page 577.

CHAPTER 582.

AN ACT providing that under conditions therein set forth
private streets, lanes, alleys and ways in the city of Balti-
more which shall be hereafter opened shall be conclusively
presumed to have been dedicated to public use.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That every private street, lane, alley or way in the city
of Baltimore which shall be hereafter laid out and opened, and
which for a period of one year shall connect with, open into,
or lead to or from any public street, lane, alley or way of said
city, and passage between which said private street, lane,
alley or way and said public street, lane, alley or way shall not
be barred or obstructed by a wall, fence or similar structure
erected along the dividing line between them, either without
a gate or gates therein, or with a gate or gates, which shall be
kept closed at all times except when in actual use, shall be con-
clusively presumed to have been dedicated by the owner or