756 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 330

B. The State of Maryland hereby agrees to the use by the
Authority of lands lying under the waters over which the
Bridge may be constructed so far as necessary or convenient
for the project.

C. None of the provisions contained in Sections 153 to
160, inclusive, of Article 23 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland or of the laws relating to the Public Serv-
ice Commission shall be deemed to be applicable to the Au-
thority or the projects; nor shall any of the limitations, re-
strictions, conditions, taxes or other requirements imposed by
Sections 44 to 55 of this Article fee applicable to the Authority
or its construction or the operation of the Bridge.

D. Subject to the existing franchises of the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge Company and of the Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry
Company and any other existing franchises respecting a
bridge or ferry over the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, no
person, partnership, association or corporation, private or
public, and no political sub-division of the State, shall be
authorized, and it shall be unlawful for any of them to con-
struct or operate, and the State hereby agrees that it will not
construct or operate, any bridge or ferry over the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay at a distance less than twenty miles from
the Bridge to be erected in pursuance to this Act, until the
Bridge bonds together with interest thereon, with interest on
any unpaid installment of interest, and all costs and expenses
in connection with any action or proceedings by or on behalf
of the holders of such bonds are fully met and discharged; pro-
vided that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of
any person, partnership, association or corporation, or the
State or any of its political sub-divisions to construct or op-
erate any bridge or ferry as the holder or assignee of any such
existing franchise, or of the purchaser of any existing bridge
or ferry operated pursuant to any such existing franchises.

90. Without limiting the generality of the powers of ac-
quisition of property hereinabove conferred upon the Author-
ity, the Authority shall have authority to acquire from The
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Company its franchises, real and per-
sonal property, plans, engineering data, records, surveys, maps
and all property, data: and records of whatever description
pertaining to or relating to the designing and construction of
the bridge and to make use of the same and to pay therefor
the reasonable cost and expenses of the said corporation or
any individual acting on its behalf, disbursed or incurred on
its or his behalf in accumulation thereof. The Chesapeake Bay
Bridge Company is hereby empowered to assign and convey
such franchises and property to the Authority. Such pay-