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holder to be affected by the passage of the proposed ordinance,
giving notice of the time and place named for the passage of
said ordinance; provided that said parties are residents of
Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
ascertaining any such damages, commissioners shall be ap-
pointed as provided by said Section 66, of said Public Local
Laws of Maryland, which proceedings of said commissioners
and all further proceedings therein, including an appeal from
their decision shall be had and conducted as provided by said
sections 66 and 67 of Article 1, of said Public Local Laws of
Maryland, entitled "Allegany County", sub-title "City of
Cumberland".

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any part or parts
of any existing Acts of Assembly, constituting any part of the
Charter of the City of Cumberland inconsistent or in conflict
with this Act, is or are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, in the year Nineteen Hundred
and Eighteen.

Approved March 26th, 1918.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT to accept the benefits provided by the Act of Congress
of February 23, 1917, entitled "An Act to provide for the
promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation
with the States in the promotion of such education in agricul-
ture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation
with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational
subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate Its expendi-
ture, " such acceptance being upon the conditions set forth
in said Act of Congress.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State of Maryland hereby accepts all of the pro-
visions and the benefits of an Act passed by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, entitled '' An Act to provide for the promo-
tion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the
States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and