ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  775

necessary public purpose. Provided, however, that the County
Commissioners shall publish in some newspaper of general
circulation in Montgomery County the contract price paid or
agreed to be paid for any land purchased under the provisions
of this Act, which publication shall state the name of the
vendor, a brief description of the property, the total amount
of the purchase price and the object or objects for which the
land is acquired. If said County Commissioners shall be
unable for any reason to agree with the owner or owners of
any such land, the buildings or improvements thereon, or any
interest therein, the use of which is required for any necessary
public purpose or for the opening of any new road, street, alley
or sidewalk, for the construction or repair of any bridge, for the
relocating, straightening or widening of any road, street, alley
or sidewalk, the proper drainage thereof, for the building of
any public building or structure, or for any other necessary
public purpose, then the said County Commissioners are au-
thorized, empowered and directed to proceed to condemn the
same for the use of the county under the provisions of the
law relative to condemnation by corporations, municipal or
otherwise, as fully as though said County Commissioners were
a corporation named in the several sections of said law, the
said law being Article 33A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (Bagby's Edition of 1924). But the said County Com-
missioners shall not be required to accept the award or judg-
ment rendered in any proceeding under said statute, but may
abandon the said project upon payment of the costs thereof.
The powers and authority hereby vested in said County Com-
missioners shall apply to any land situate in any municipality
or taxing area in Montgomery County, which shall be deemed
necessary by said County Commissioners for public use.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect, from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 17, 1931.