EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 733

CHAPTER 358.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State Roads Commis-
sion of Maryland to purchase and take over the Monocacy
and Urbana Turnpike Road Company of Frederick County,
situate in Frederick County, and to construct and maintain
the same as a State Road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the State Roads Commission be and the same
is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase and take
over, at such price, not exceeding One Dollar, as may be agreed
on, between said Commission and the directors of said turn-
pike, the Monocacy and Urbana Turnpike Road Company of
Frederick County, situate in Frederick County, and to grade,
construct and maintain the same as a State Road under the
law in reference to the construction and maintenance of other
state highways, and the acquisition of land and material there-
for, and for the purpose of defraying the cost of the purchase,
construction and maintenance of said road or any part thereof,
the State Roads Commission is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to use any portion of the fund now in or which may
remain in its hands from appropriations heretofore made or to
be made, for the constructions of state roads in Maryland;
and if there be no such balance, or if such balance be insuffi-
cient for such purpose, then the State Roads Commission is
hereby further authorized and empowered to use so much of
any funds appropriated for the general purposes of improving
the highways of the State as may be necessary for the pur-
chase, construction and maintenance of said road.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from June 1st, 1916.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 359.

AN ACT to refund to John Guy the sum of money paid by
him to the Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland for
license to dredge for oysters with the Sloop, "Lucy V, "
which said license has never been used.