( aa ) Provincial pound.  — To provide a provincial pound. 

governo r. CDAHaE 

[2408-30.] 

SECTION 2594 . Provincial Toll Ferries . — Whenever for thirty days after service of a request by the provincial board any municipality declines or neglects to establish and maintain a suitable system of ferries for public use, the provincial board may desig nate, subject to revocation by the department governor, such ferries as provincial toll ferries, may make appropriations from the provincial road and bridge fund for the construction, maintenance, and operation thereof, and may from time to time, subject t o the approval of the department governor, establish reasonable rates of tolls to be paid for the use thereof. Officers and enlisted men and civil employees of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, other branches of the Federal service, and other  Government officials and employees shall be exempt from the payment of such tolls. The proceeds from any such provincial toll ferry shall go into and become a part of the provincial road and bridge fund of the province in which the ferry is operated. 

Whenever either the department governor or the provincial board shall decide that the financial situation of a province is such that the collection of tolls on any ferry may be discontinued without injury to the welfare of the province, the department gove rnor or the provincial board, as the case may be, shall so order and thereafter such ferry shall be free for public use. 

[2408-31.] 

SECTION 2595 . Condemnation Proceedings . — The provincial board is authorized, for and in behalf of the province, subject to the approval of the department governor, to acquire real estate by the exercise of the right of eminent domain for school, cemetery,  and park purposes, for provincial buildings, for opening and widening streets, for market sites, and public plazas, for the construction of crematories, artesian wells, and drainage, water supply and sewer systems, cesspools, wharves, and piers. The right s granted in this section shall otherwise be exercised in the manner prescribed by law. 

[2408-32.] 

SECTION 2596 . Convention of Municipal Presidents . — The provincial board is hereby authorized, whenever in its discretion the public good requires, to call a convention or meeting of any or all of the municipal presidents of the province at such place and time as it may designate, and it shall be the duty of the presidents called to attend the same. Not less than one nor more than four such 

