732                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 437

engineering and legal services, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates
of cost and of revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to
determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the
Expressway, administrative expense, and such other expenses as
may be necessary or incident to the construction of the Expressway,
the financing of such construction and the placing of the Expressway
in operation. Any obligation or expense heretofore or hereafter
incurred by the Commission for traffic surveys, borings, preparation
of plans and specifications, and other engineering services in con-
nection with the construction of the Expressway shall be regarded
as a part of the cost of the Expressway and shall be reimbursed to
the Commission out of the proceeds of revenue bonds issued for the
Expressway as hereinafter authorized.

(d)   The word "bonds" or the words "revenue bonds" shall mean
revenue bonds authorized under the provisions of this sub-title.

(e)   The word "owner" shall include all individuals, copartnerships,
associations or corporations having any title or interest in any prop-
erty, rights, franchises, easements and interests authorized to be
acquired by this sub-title.

126D. (General Grant of Powers.) The Commission is hereby
authorized and empowered:

(a)   to construct, maintain, repair and operate the Northeastern
Expressway or any part or parts thereof as it may determine;

(b)  to determine, in its discretion and without reference to any
other provisions of this sub-title or any other law, the design stand-
ards and the materials of construction;

(c)  to issue revenue bonds of the State, payable solely from the
tolls and revenues pledged for their payment, and to refund bonds,
all as provided in this sub-title;

(d)   to fix and revise from time to time and charge and collect tolls
for transit over the Northeastern Expressway;

(e)   to establish rules and regulations for the use of the North-
eastern Expressway;

(f)   to acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property in
the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under
this sub-title;

(g)  to acquire in the name of the State by purchase or otherwise,
on such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem
proper, or by the exercise of the right of condemnation in the manner
hereinafter provided or referred to, such public or private lands,
including public parks, playgrounds or reservations, cemeteries, or
parts thereof or rights therein, rights of way, property, rights,
franchises, easements and interests, as it may deem necessary for
carrying out the provisions of this sub-title; provided, however, that
no compensation shall be paid for public lands, playgrounds, parks,
parkways or reservations owned by the State of Maryland so taken,
and that all public property damaged in carrying out the powers
granted by this sub-title shall be restored or repaired and placed in
its original condition as nearly as practicable;

(h) to designate the locations, and establish, limit and control
such points of ingress to and egress from the Expressway as may be