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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 284

retaining a provision in the Code as to the
retrocession of jurisdiction with respect to those
tracts. Other general provisions as to jurisdiction
also provide for retrocession.

GENERAL REVISOR'S NOTE:

Former Art. 96, §§ 22 and 23, which were enacted by Ch. 252,
Acts of 1910, and which enabled the United States to acquire land
for the construction of a road between Washington, D.C. and
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and provided for jurisdiction over the
land, are decodified. It is unclear whether the land was
purchased. In any event, the jurisdiction provisions only apply
to the specific land acquired for the purpose of constructing a
road as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln.

Former Art. 96, § 30, which was enacted by Ch. 543, Acts of
1910, and which enabled the State to transfer to the United
States the Confederate cemetery located at Point Lookout in St.
Mary's County, is decodified. The transfer was accomplished, and
the Veterans' Administration National Cemetery Office owns and
maintains the site.

Former Art. 96, § 32, which was enacted by Ch. 644, Acts of
1943, and which generally authorized the United States to acquire
land for the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and specifically
enabled the State, with the approval of the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission, to convey, as a gift, park
lands needed for the Parkway, is decodified. The Parkway has
been built, and all necessary conveyances have been made.

Former Art. 96, § 46, which was enacted by Chs. 200 and 644,
Acts of 1900, and which enabled the Antietam Battlefield
Commission of Maryland to transfer the Antietam Battlefield to
the United States for perpetual care, is decodified since the
transfer has taken place.

Former Art. 96, § 35, which enables the United States to
build a bridge across Spesutie Narrows to connect Spesutie Island
with Harford County, is transferred, without amendment, to appear
as Art. 24, § 7-101 of the Code.

Former Art. 78A, §§ 26 through 30, which were enacted by Ch.
375, Acts of 1939, and which enabled the Board of Public Works to
contract with the United States for payments-in-lieu of taxes on
property under rehabilitation projects, are deleted as obsolete.

Although the former sections appeared to be general enabling
provisions, those sections, in fact, were enacted to authorize
these payments under a rehabilitation project at Greenbelt,
Maryland. See 24 Op. Att'y Gen. 798, 801 (1939).

Minutes of the Board of Public Works indicate that the
contract was approved on December 13, 1939.