914 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 447

to levy sufficient funds to take over, maintain, repair and
keep open for public travel the said part of said Avenue.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That on and after the loth day of June, 1918, the
Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Takoma Park, in
Prince George's and Montgomery Counties, be and they are
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take over, main-
tain, keep in repair and open for public travel the Road known,
as that part of Poplar Avenue which runs through Block No.

16 of said Town, and which connects Poplar Avenue, as now
laid out in said Town at its intersection with Elm Avenue,
with Park Avenue, now known as the Ray Road in Prince
George's County. The metes and bounds of said Road in
Block No. 16 being as follows: Beginning at a point where the
westerly line of Park Avenue or the Ray Road intersects the
southerly line of the said Block No. 16, and running thence
North 42 degrees 28 minutes West, 173.4 feet; thence North

17 degrees 29 minutes West 92.6 feet to the South side of Elm
Avenue; thence North 86 degrees East 41.13 feet; thence
South 17 degrees 29 minutes East 73 feet; thence South 42
degrees 28 minutes East 193.2 feet to the Southerly line of
said Block No. 16 and thence with said line to the place of be-
ginning.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Common Council of the said Town of Takoma Park are here-
by authorized, empowered and directed at their next levy fol-
lowing the passage of this Act and every year thereafter to
levy a sufficient sum of money to take over, maintain, repair
and keep open for public travel the Road hereinbefore de-
scribed, which said levy shall be made as the levy is now made
in said Town for the opening, repair and maintenance of
streets, avenues and highways of said Town.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Common Council of the said Town of Takoma Park be and
they are hereby invested with such authority and power as may
be necessary for the taking over, repair and maintenance of
the Road hereinbefore described.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.