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members of said Commission shall, before entering upon the
discharge of their duties, take an oath before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County that they will fairly and
impartially administer the duties of the office.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That said Commission
shall, when so authorized by an. ordinance of the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County, make a thorough, accurate
and comprehensive topographical survey of that part of Bal-
timore County adjacent to the City of Baltimore and of such
other parts of Baltimore County as may from time to time
be designated by said County Commissioners, and from such
survey and other reliable data they shall cause an official
map to be prepared showing the location of all the streets, the
dimension of blocks in feet and inches, streets proposed but
not opened, all Streams, water courses, the undulations of the
ground to be shown by contour lines representing the different
elevations in a manner to enable the establishment of grades,
location of sewers, etc. And in the preparation oP such map
they are authorized to use all maps, plats, diagrams, draw-
ings and records of the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County or the Roads Engineer of Baltimore County or the
County Surveyor of said county where the same is the prop-
erty of Baltimore County.

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That no avenues, streets,
alleys, roads, or ways in Baltimore County within three miles
of the boundary line of Baltimore City shall hereafter be
opened, established or condemned, nor shall the dedication of
the same be accepted unless the same shall have been ap-
proved in writing by the said Street Planning Commission of
Baltimore County, or unless the same shall conform to a gen-
eral plan of streets, avenues and ways which may be adopted
for said territory by the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County or as any plan so adopted shall be amended.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the Street
Planning Commission of Baltimore County may formulate a
general plan for the laying out and location of streets, alleys
and highways in all that part of Baltimore County lying
within three miles of the boundary line of Baltimore City
and recommend the same to the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County who if they approve the same are author-
ized to accept and adopt it as the general plan for the location
of streets and ways in said territory and said plan when so