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owners thereof to public use as public highways, and may, at
any time thereafter, be accepted as public highways, either by
ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or in
any other manner in which a dedication of land to public use
made in any other way may be accepted.

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

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 583.

AN ACT providing that under conditions therein set forth
private streets, lanes, alleys and ways now existing in the
city of Baltimore 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 now existing
in the city of Baltimore, which for a period of one year from
the passage of this Act, 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 conclusively pre-
sumed to have been, dedicated by the owner or owners thereof
to public use as public highways, and may, at any time there-
after, be accepted as public highways, either by ordinance of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or in any other man-
ner in which a dedication of land to public use made in any
other way, may be accepted.

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

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to levy assessments upon property which has been specially
benefited by the opening, widening, straightening or closing
of a street, lane or alley, where such improvements have been
made under an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, or
ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or