1366                        LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 539

upon terms of purchase or surrender) be condemned by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore under the provisions of
Chapter 274 of the Acts of 1904, and Chapter 566 of the Acts
of 1906, or in the exercise of its general powers of condemna-
tion, the cost thereof to be defrayed out of the loan provided
for in said first mentioned Act, or out of the ordinary proceeds
of municipal taxation; provided, however, that the provisions
of said Act of 1906 shall be obligatory upon, and not dis-
cretionary with, the mayor and city council of Baltimore and
the board of estimates, and the price to be charged for new
rights, franchises and easements similar to those condemned,
shall be the same as the amount of the condemnation award.

4.    In all proceedings in which the State Roads Commission
seeks to obtain property by condemnation under Sections 203
to 209, inclusive, or Sections 331 to 337, inclusive, of Article
23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (Edition of 1924)
where any owner or owners is or are not known, it shall be
lawful to describe such owner or owners as the unknown owner
or owners, or the unknown heir or heirs of a deceased owner,
and notice shall be given to such unknown persons by publica-
tion as notice is provided for in the case of non-residents in
Section 204 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(Edition of 1924); and when such notice is given by publica-
tion, it shall have the same effect as if the said unknown owner
or owners had personally appeared and answered in the said
condemnation proceedings.

5.    If the State Roads Commission shall determine that the
public necessity or convenience, or that the purposes of this
Act require that any turnpike, or part thereof, whether main-
tained as such by any turnpike company or otherwise, or
whether formerly maintained as such and now abandoned by
any turnpike company, or that any public road in whole or in
part-in any county or counties, and forming a section of a
through route or continuous thoroughfare between two or more
important points in the State, should be taken charge of by
said commission for the State for the purposes of this act, then,
as to such public road or abandoned or acquired turnpike,
whether acquired by purchase or condemnation, the said com-
mission shall file a certified copy of the plan thereof in the
office of the county commissioners for the county or the several
counties in which said section or sections of road or turnpike
may be situated, and setting forth its purpose to acquire and