52 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Upper Marlboro, to be used in the improvement of said streets
and roads.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts, inconsistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT, in pursuance of the power of taxation and of the police
power, and the general power of the Legislature over public
highways, and in the exercise of the reserved power to alter or
repeal the charter of all corporations incorporated since the
Constitution of 1850; imposing upon every corporation occu-
pying with railroad or street railway tracks any portion of any
public highway of Baltimore City, the obligation to pay the
cost or expense of paving or repaving the portion of such
highway lying within the track or tracks and for a distance of
two feet outside of each outer rail of said track or tracks,
whenever the said highway shall be paved or repaved with
improved paving by the Paving Commission of Baltimore
City, the State Roads Commission, the Annex Improvement
Commission, the City Engineer, or any other public commis-
sion, board or agency.

WHEREAS, There are existing in the public highways of Balti-
more City a large number of railroad and street railway fran-
chises, a large portion of which were granted many years ago,
either without consideration or for a very inadequate considera-
tion, and at a time when the streets of the city were either not
paved at all or paved with cobble; and

WHEREAS, With the growth of the city, said franchises have
come to be of very great value; and

WHEREAS, The public safety and convenience and the proper
regulation of the use of the streets now require that cobblestone
paving, or other inferior condition, should be replaced with some
form of improved paving as rapidly as conveniently may be
done, and such replacement is now being carried on rapidly in
the City of Baltimore; and