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to require the said railroad company to perform all the condi-
tions and requirements to be performed by it under the Act of

1882. Chapter 223, of the General Assembly of Maryland, and
also of the said Board of Public Works of August the 9th,

1883. and to keep and maintain a steam tug or tow boat at
said span of said bridge and tow all vessels passing thereunder
to and from a point not less than one-quarter of a mile to the
south of said bridge, and under said span to and from a point
at least one mile up the channel of said river and to the north
of said bridge, and also to remove all abandoned piling and
other obstructions in the bed of said river at or near its said
bridge which were used in the construction or repair thereof;
and,

Be it resolved, That if said railroad company shall neglect
or refuse to comply with the requirements of this resolution,
then the Governor of this State is hereby requested to require
the Attorney General to institute and prosecute all necessary
proceedings, either by quo warranto or otherwise, to enforce
a compliance with the provisions of this resolution and of the
law under which said bridge was erected.

Approved April 8, 1910.

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6.

Whereas, Pursuant to a joint resolution of the Congress of
the United States, passed in the month of September, in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-one, and upon the application
of the United States for a cession of necessary jurisdiction,
the General Assembly of Maryland, by an Act, entitled "An
Act giving the assent of the State of Maryland to such plan as
may be adopted by the President of the United States for
supplying the City of Washington with water," passed on the
3d day of May, in the year 1853;

Whereas, Pursuant to said authority the United States did
acquire, by purchase, gift, condemnation and otherwise, certain
lands in the County of Montgomery, in said State, and did
erect and build and has ever thereafter maintained culverts,
dams, bridges, reservoirs, gatehouses, conduits, waterways and
pipe lines in said county and State, as well as a roadway upon,
along and over a part of said water and conduit system in
Montgomery County, Maryland, to wit, for a distance of about
twelve miles in length with a width of sixty feet, embracing
in all several hundred acres of land;

Whereas, The State of Maryland, from the time of such
cession and continuously thereafter until the year nineteen
hundred and seven, through its proper officials, did exercise