640 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and City Council of Baltimore to issue its stock to an
amount not exceeding one million ($ 1,000,000) dollars, in
order to provide the money for carrying into effect the im-
provements and plans above mentioned and authorizing, and
to authorize the submission of an ordinance to that end to
the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, and to authorize the
delegation by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
the "Commission on City Plan," of any of the powers con-
ferred on said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by Chap-
ter 166 of the Acts of Assembly of 1908.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is
hereby authorized and empowered to open, construct and es-
tablish a public highway in the City of Baltimore, beginning
at or near the northerly end of the City Docks, and running
thence northerly along, adjoining or over the bed of Jones'
Falls, with a division or divisions from said falls, and with
connection with streets crossing said highway, or running near
it to Mt. Royal avenue, at or near its junction with Oliver
street or Guilford avenue, and to acquire for said purposes
landed or other property in the bed of said highway and adja-
cent thereto on either or both sides thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before proceeding to
open and construct said highway, including the acquiring of
property adjacent thereto, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall by ordinance provide therefor, and there shall be
designated upon a proper plat the property, landed or other,
that is to be acquired in, along or adjacent to said highway.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized and empowered to
delegate to the Commission known as the "Commission on
City Plan," the duty and power of opening, constructing and
establishing said highway, and to confer by ordinance on said
Commission the power to condemn and acquire by purchase or
condemnation the lands and property mentioned in the last
preceding section of this Act, and such other powers possessed
by said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, relating to the
laying out, opening and construction of highways and acquiring
property, landed or other, adjacent thereto, as it may deem
proper, including the powers vested in it by Chapter 166 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its
Session of the year nineteen hundred and eight.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any landed or other
property acquired under the provisions of this Act, excepting
lands lying in the bed of said highway, may, after said high-
way has been laid out, be sold by the Mayor and City Council