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and thereafter such land, property, or things, when so held or
acquired by said city, shall be exempt from taxation for county
purposes; all laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent herewith being
hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. The object
of this section is to indemnify Baltimore county against all
loss in taxes, immediate or prospective, that may be entailed
upon it by the appropriation for public use, by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, of any and all such land, property
or things.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, in building its proposed conduit from the
storage lake herein contemplated to the city of Baltimore, or
elsewhere, shall retain title to, and control of, all stone, suita-
ble for said purposes, brought to the surface, from the line of
such conduit, where the same is situate in Baltimore county,
and shall give the proper authorities of Baltimore county hav-
ing charge of the roads therein, the option of purchasing so
much of said stone as they may require at any time during the
progress of such work, and for a period of five years thereafter,
at a price not exceeding two cents per cubic yard in the
"dump;" such right being subject, however, to the city's prior
right to use all of said stone that it may need in the construc-
tion of roads, or other works, herein provided for, as contem-
plated.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted. That whenever any public
road, or bridge, of Baltimore county shall be destroyed, or
rendered impassable, in whole or in part, by the city of Balti-
more, in connection with the work herein contemplated, it shall
be the duty of said city to replace the same, at its own expense,
as nearly as possible, with a suitable and convenient road or
bridge in lieu thereof, and, if any such existing public road or
bridge, or any bridge or road, so built in lieu of one so de-
stroyed, be on, or through, property acquired by said city for
the purposes contemplated by this Act, it shall be the duty of
said city thereafter, at all times to maintain the same in good
order and repair for the free use of the public, so far as the
same may be on or through such property, subject to such pro-
visions and conditions, looking to maintaining the purity of
said city's water supply, as the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore may by ordinance impose; and provided further, that
the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not have
the power, anything in this Act, or in any other Act or law to
the contrary notwithstanding, to condemn any such public road
or bridge of Baltimore county, but shall have the right to divert,
alter, close or destroy any public road or bridge of Baltimore
county, when necessary in the course of such work, only by