496 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 200

sub-title "General Powers", to be known as Paragraph (24A)
and to follow immediately after Paragraph (24) of said sec-
tion, authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to acquire land and property of every kind, including that
already devoted to public use, in, adjoining or in the vicinity
of the Patapsco River or its tributaries, by purchase, lease,
gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for or in con-
nection with extending, developing or improving the harbor
or Port of Baltimore and its facilities and the highways and
approaches thereto, with certain exceptions; to establish,
develop, redevelop, construct, erect, enlarge, extend, alter,
improve, renovate, modernize, equip, repair, maintain, oper-
ate, control and regulate buildings, structures and other
facilities or appurtenances necessary or useful in connection
with the operation of a modern port on, above, under or in any
land or property now or hereafter owned or otherwise held
or controlled by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
or by any private, public or quasi public corporation, part-
nership, association, person or other legal entity; to establish
and collect fees, rentals or charges for use of said buildings,
structures or other facilities or appurtenances owned or
otherwise held or controlled by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore; to sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dis-
pose of any of said land or property, regardless of its condi-
tion or the manner or means in or by which it may have been
acquired, for or in connection with extending, developing or
improving the harbor or Port of Baltimore and its facilities
and the highways and approaches thereto; to preserve any
of said land or property for public use; to petition for, and
accept from, the United States of America, or the State of
Maryland, or any department or agency thereof, or any other
source, certain loans, grants or aid and execute contracts
and other legal instruments in connection therewith; to
insert certain provisions in any legal instrument pertaining
to the disposition of any of said land or property; to vest
jurisdiction or authority to exercise or perform certain
powers in any existing agency of, or in any new agency to be
created by, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; pro-
viding that certain officers, officials or employees of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not become
financially interested in any of said land or property; declar-
ing that certain leases or rental agreements are exclusively
for public or commercial purposes and prohibiting the re-
demption of the rent, fee or charge reserved therein except
as provided in the particular lease or rental agreement, and
declaring this Act to be an emergency measure.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new paragraph be and it is hereby added to Sec-