ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1373

The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland is authorized
and empowered to advance to the State Roads Commission out
of any surplus now in its hands from its General Improvement
Bond Issue of 1920, or from any other surplus now in its
hands, or from any money which may now be owed it, such
sum as may be necessary, not exceeding one-half of the amount
which the State Roads Commission will be required to pay as
its proportionate share, for the purpose of altering, in the
manner provided in Section 13 of this Article, the railroad
grade crossings of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's
tracks in the City of Cumberland, Allegany County.

16. The expense of removing, relaying or relocating any
municipal county water or sewer pipes or other municipal or
county pipes, conduits or subways, shall be borne by the rail-
roads and the State Roads Commission as provided in Section
15. Plans under which these changes are to be made shall be
approved by the owners of the structures involved.

IT. Where the order of said State Roads Commission shall
require changes in, or the removal of the property or construc-
tion of any telegraph, telephone, gas, electric, lighting, power,
water, oil, pipe lines or other company or corporation, co-part-
nership or individual, they shall move or change the grade or
location of their property or constructions in conformity with
the order of the Commission. The cost of changing, removing
or constructing the said lines shall be paid by the railroads
and the State Roads Commission as provided in Section 15.
Plans under which these changes are to be made shall be ap-
proved by the owners of the structures involved. They shall
be deemed parties in interest and shall be given notice of hear-
ing and opportunity to be heard.

18. The State Roads Commission may proceed with respect
to any such crossing upon its own motion, or upon the petition
of any railroad company or companies whose tracks cross or
are crossed at grade, or upon the petition in writing of the
Mayor and City Council or other governing body of any munici-
pality, or of the County Commissioners of any county wherein
any such crossing exists, setting forth the facts upon which
relief under this Act is sought; whereupon said Commission
shall fix a time and place for a hearing before it, and shall
give such notice thereof as it shall deem reasonable to the
municipality, County Commissioners and corporations, copart-