PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 397

timore County, as well as such land and other property as may
be reasonably required or needed in Baltimore City and Anne
Arundel County for the abutments or approaches to the ter-
mini of said bridge; and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall also maintain a keeper or keepers for the draw or
draws, or roller lift bridge or bridges comprising a part of
said bridge over the Patapsco River, who shall open the same
for the free passage of vessels whenever vessels desire to pass.
The appointment and compensation of such keeper or keepers
shallbe such as may be prescribed by ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore. All franchises, easements or
rights to the use of occupancy of said bridge by all persons
or corporations engaged in supplying any public utility shall
be subject to the control of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, and no such persons or corporations shall use such
bridge unless the consent and authority is first obtained from
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. And the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore is hereby charged with the duty
of maintaining and lighting said bridge and the approaches
thereto and keeping the same in repair and proper condition.
Upon the completion of the new bridge herein authorized to
be constructed and the opening of the same to travel as a pub-
lic highway the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby
authorized to remove, or otherwise dispose of, the present Light
Street Bridge, and upon such removal or other disposition being
made by the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore all the
duties or obligations now resting upon said Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore by reason of any law or ordinance with
reference to the maintaining, repairing and lighting of said
Light Street Bridge shall cease and determine; that the re-
mainder and balance of said sum of One million six hundred
thousand dollars ($1,600,000) which remains after the cost of
the construction of said bridge, and the expense incurred in ac-
quiring the approaches, abutments and property necessary for
the control of said bridge have been fully made, shall be used
for grading, paving and curbing such streets, or portions of
streets, within the present limits of Baltimore City as may be
selected by the State Roads Commission.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of the several Counties of this State and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore are hereby respectively directed
to levy the State taxes for the years 1915 and 1916 at two and
one-half cents (2 1/2) on each one hundred dollars of assessable
property; and for the year 1917 and annually thereafter to