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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

his assigns, to be held and used only for and as a

public park.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore be and they are hereby

authorized and empowered to provide for the im-

provement and maintenance and regulation of said

Provide for

park ; and the park commissioners of said Mayor

improve-
ment.

and City Council of Baltimore shall have, in respect

to any park that may be established under this act,

the same police powers, and the same authority to

make rules and regulations for the government of

the same, as now exists in them in respect to Druid

Hill Park.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 365.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of three hundred

and ten dollars and twenty-two cents, to pay the

claim of Bartlett, Robbins & Co., against the

State.

WHEREAS the State of Maryland is justly and
bona fide indebted unto Bartlett, Robbins and Com-

pany, of Baltimore city, for work done and materials

furnished for the steam heating apparatus at the

State House, upon the order of the Board of Public

Works, and for which there appears to be no funds

Preamble

at the disposal of said board out of which to pay the
same; and whereas the correctness of the said

indebtedness is certified to by Ex-Governor Carroll,

as the president of said board, and its payment

recommended, and the same has been referred to

this General Assembly by Comptroller Keating, as
required by section fifty-two, article three, of the

Constitution of the State ; therefore,