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and scenic integrity and beauty of the State House and other nearby
real properties owned or used by the State of Maryland or one of
its departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, or other agencies.

(b)    The acquisition may be by purchase, gift, exchange, or con-
demnation under the procedures in Article 33A of this Code, with
any funds available for the purpose from time to time.

(c)    The Board of Public Works may enter into an agreement or
contract with the owner or user of any real property in the specified
area, whereby the owner or user will forbear from any structural
or other physical changes in the particular property which, in the
continuing judgment and jurisdiction of the Board of Public Works,
would be detrimental to the architectural and scenic integrity and
beauty of the property and of the specified area. The Board may
expend cash or provide other consideration to the owner or user in
return for his entering into the agreement or contract including an
engagement by the Board that during the period of compliance by
the owner or user in the terms of the agreement or contract the
Board will not exercise its powers of condemnation to acquire an
architectural easement over the particular property or any portion
thereof.

(d)    The areas in the City of Annapolis included in the powers
and authority of this section include the bed of the street and outer
sidewalk areas, to and inclusive of an area beginning at the building
line on the outer perimeter and extending outward an additional
fifty feet,

(1)    around State Circle surrounding the State House,

(2)    on School Street opposite the Executive Mansion,

(3)    on the easterly side of North Street, between State Circle
and College Avenue.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.

CHAPTER 432
(Senate Bill 16)

AN ACT to add new subsection (c) to Section 10 of Article 36 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume and 1970
Supplement), title "Fees of Officers," subtitle "Attorneys," to follow
immediately after subsection (b) thereof, to provide that all ap-
pearance fees collected in the Courts of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City shall be transmitted by the clerks of the several courts
to the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar on a quarterly basis,
to be used for the general purposes of the Bar Library of Baltimore
City AND PROVIDING FOR THE FREE USE OF THE
LIBRARY BY BALTIMORE CITY EMPLOYEES IN CONNEC-
TION WITH OFFICIAL BUSINESS, and providing further that