THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 67

sub-title "Elkton", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

195. The President and Commissioners, in the corporate
name, shall have the right to hold, manage, lease, purchase,
sell and convey, real estate of any class or description,
[or] for the use of the town, whether the same be within
or without the corporate limits thereof; and the ownership
by purchase, or otherwise, of any real estate now situate
beyond the limits of the town, and standing now in the
corporate name of the town, or intended, so to stand, is
hereby ratified and confirmed and the title thereto in the
town is hereby confirmed and made valid to the same
extent as if the town were expressly authorized by law
to acquire the same at the time the purchase thereof was
made; and the town is hereby authorized to acquire by
purchase or otherwise, including condemnation, lands,
tenements and hereditaments, within or without the town
limits, for any public use of the town which said public
use may include parks, wharves, firehouse site, council hall
site, or other real estate holdings which may be of benefit
to the corporate community.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved March 9, 1953.

CHAPTER 28
(Senate Bill 62)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
196 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County", sub-title
"Elkton", and to repeal Sections 197 and 200 of said
Article and sub-title, eliminating from the charter of
the town of Elkton certain obsolete provisions concern-
ing the assessment and enforcement of town taxes.

WHEREAS, the provisions of the Annotated Code now
require that municipal corporations take the assessments

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