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and police stations, and the value or usefulness thereof to each
of said counties, respectively, outside of the portion annexed
by this Act to Baltimore City. If, in the judgment of said
arbitrators, any fire engine house and lot, with its apparatus,
any police station and lot, and any schoolhouse and lot and
furniture, is so situate as to be of no use to the population of
the counties outside of the territory annexed by this Act to
Baltimore City, they shall value such engine house and lot
and apparatus, such station house and lot, or such schoolhouse,
lot and furniture, respectively, at a nominal valuation, and
any such fire engine house, lot and apparatus, station house,
and lot, or schoolhouse, lot and furniture, so situated as to be,
in the judgment of said arbitrators, of use to the inhabitants
of the counties outside of the territory to be annexed by this
Act to Baltimore City, shall be valued by said arbitrators
according to their judgment of its usefulness to the people
of the counties outside of the territory annexed by this
Act to Baltimore City. The intention of this Section is that
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall pay to the
Treasurer of Baltimore County and the Treasurer of Anne
Arundel County, respectively, the fair value of any and every
use of the public property hereinabove mentioned situate with-
in the territory annexed by thin Act to Baltimore City, of
which the inhabitants of the County outside of said territory
are deprived by this Act.
In addition to the payments hereinabove directed to be
made, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall also
pay to the Treasurer of Anne Arundel County the fair value
of the existing bridge over Curtis Creek, included within the
territory annexed by this Act to Baltimore City, said value
to be ascertained in case of disagreement, by the arbitrators
above mentioned upon the basis of the cost of reproducing said
bridge new, less a proper charge for depreciation on account
of age.
The total amount ascertained in pursuance of this section to
be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the
Treasurer of Baltimore County and the total amount so ascer-
tained to be paid to the Treasurer of Anne Arundel County
shall be paid by said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
in ten annual installments; l/10th of said total amount to be
paid on or before September 1st, 1919, and l/10th to be paid
on or before the same date each year thereafter until the whole
is paid. The title of the County Commissioners of Anne
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