J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               565

City of Baltimore by condemnation, and generally providing the
procedure with respect thereto.

Whereas, land and other property is needed in the City of Balti-
more for the expansion of the Baltimore Campus of the University
of Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland is hereby
authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation the following
tracts of land and properties in the City of Baltimore:

All or any part of that land and property, not now owned by the
State, in the block bounded by Paca, Fayette, Baltimore and Greene
Streets, and all or any part of the land or property, not now owned
by the State, within the blocks bounded by Greene, Baltimore, Red-
wood and Pine Streets. ARCH, REDWOOD, PINE, AND BALTI-
MORE STREETS.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That upon resolution duly passed by the Board of Regents
of the University of Maryland to exercise the powers and authority
herein granted, and Petition made and presented by the said Board
to a Court of Record in the City of Baltimore, said court shall appoint
not more than three appraisers to value the land or property desig-
nated to be taken, and said appraisers shall report their valuation
to the Court without delay. Upon payment of the amount of such
valuation to the party entitled to compensation, or into Court, and
securing the payment of any further sum that may be awarded by
a jury, such property may be taken. Nothing herein contained, how-
ever shall preclude the Board of Regents of the University of Mary-
land from following at its discretion, the condemnation procedures
provided by Article 33A of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 422

(Senate Bill 477)

AN ACT to add new Section 8A to Article 62B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1960 Supplement), title
"Maryland Port Authority", to follow immediately after Section 8
of said Article; providing for the creation of a State debt in the
amount of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000), the proceeds thereof
to be used for the acquisition of and improvements to port facili-
ties, said debt being payable from the proceeds of the tax on net in-
come of certain corporations previously provided for, subject to
the prior use and application thereof for the purpose of comply-
ing with the provisions of Section 8 of said Article as heretofore
amended, from certain payments into the Annuity Bond Fund by
Maryland Port Authority and from the proceeds of a tax on assess-
able property hereby levied to the extent necessary to pay the
principal of and interest on said debt not paid from the proceeds