ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 841

vard or other public way, ground or space within the District
be placed in or surrendered to the United States or to any other
person, corporation or political community other than the
Commission itself without the approval of the General As-
sembly of Maryland. The Commission shall have the power
to negotiate, enter into and make agreements with the afore-
said National Capital Park and Planning Commission or other
federal agency or with representatives of the State of Virginia
or with other official corporations of Montgomery and Prince
George's Counties relating to the acquisition, development or
improvement of land and other property within the District
for said purposes or any of them, but shall not obligate itself
or the District for expenditures beyond the amount of funds
in its possession or to be available to it from bonds, taxes,
donations contributions or appropriations as provided for or
referred to in this Act.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted. That for the purpose
of carrying out the plan or any part thereof, the Commission
shall have the power to acquire for parks, parkways, forests,
streets, roads, boulevards or other public ways, grounds or
spaces, by means of donations, purchase or condemnation, land
or other property located within the District. All land or other
property acquired by the Commission for these purposes or any
of them shall be exempt from state, county and municipal taxes.
The Commission shall have the power to improve and develop
land or other property so acquired by it for said purposes and
shall have the control of the maintenance and operation thereof.
No general regulation governing such public ways, grounds or
open spaces within either Montgomery or Prince George's
County shall go into effect unless and until it receive the affirm-
ative vote of at least two members of the Commission from such
County.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That for the purpose of
paying for lands or other property within the District acquired
or to be acquired by the Commission, whether by condemnation
or purchase, for parks, parkways, forests, streets, roads, high-
ways, boulevards and other public ways, grounds and spaces, or
for the development or improvement thereof, the Commission is
hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds from time to
time in such amounts as it may deem necessary for said pur-
poses; provided, however, that the total amount of such bonds
outstanding at any time shall not exceed such amount as can