PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 787

ing or collecting any assessments for benefits in connection
with the condemnation, opening and widening of a Highway
in Baltimore City, known as the Key Highway, which said
Highway extends from the east side of Light Street to the
east side of Lawrence Street, in said City.

WHEREAS, The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting

under Chapter 485 of the Acts of 1910 of the General Assembly

of Maryland, and Ordinance No. 682, approved May 3, 1911, of
Baltimore City, and Ordinance No. 261, approved April 28,
1913, of Baltimore City, has proceeded to condemn and open a
Highway known as the Key Highway, extending from the east
side of Light Street to the east side of Lawrence Street, in said
City; and in connection with said condemnation and opening of

said Highway, has levied assessments for benefits against certain
properties and owners of properties abutting on and adjacent
to the said Key Highway; and

WHEREAS, While the said Act above referred to did not speci-
fically exempt such properties and property owners from such
assessments for benefits, yet it was the plain and manifest inten-
tion of said Act that all improvements made in pursuance of the
provisions of said Act should be paid for wholly out of the
funds to be raised by the issue of Baltimore City Stock, author-
ized to be issued thereby.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and all of
its Officers, Commissions, Boards or Agents, be and they are
hereby prohibited from levying or collecting any assessments
for benefits in connection with the condemnation and opening

of the said Key Highway, under the aforesaid Chapter 485,
Acts of 1910 of the General Assembly of Maryland, and the said
Ordinance No. 682, approved May 3, 1911, and Ordinance No.

261, approved April 28, 1913, of Baltimore City.

SEC. 2. nd be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 471.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 17 of the Code of Pub-
lie Local Laws, title "Prince George's County, sub-title,
'' Bawdy Houses and Houses of Ill Fame," to be incorporated