1018 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 19

Mr. Siegmund proposed the following amendment:

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the words "a bill, " and insert the
following:

" Entitled An Act to authorize the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore to regulate the exercise by the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Balti-
more city, and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company of the rights and privileges granted to said
companies by Ordinance No. 141, approved May 9, 1889.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
is hereby authorized to regulate, from time to time, by
ordinance or ordinances, the exercise by the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore city, and the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of the rights
and privileges granted by Ordinance No. 41, approved
May 9, 1889, so as to prevent the exercise of said rights
and privileges from interfering with the proper construc-
tion of the city conduits and other city works; and in ex-
ecuting the power hereby granted the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore may make all needful and proper
regulations for determining the character, size, plan and
mode of construction of the conduits and manholes au-
thorized to be constructed by said ordinance, the location
of said conduits and manholes in the several streets and
alleys in which they may be constructed and the depth
and width of the excavations in the streets and
alleys to be made for said conduits and manholes;
and in the power hereby granted to regulate
the location of said conduits and manholes is
included the power to ascertain and determine in what
streets and alleys said conduits and manholes may, and
in what streets and alleys they may not, be constructed,
provided reasonable provision is made for the fair and
reasonable exercises of the rights and privileges granted
by said Ordinance No. 41; and in executing the power of
regulation by this Act granted to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, it may clothe the City Engi-
neer with all such powers in addition to those conferred
upon the City Commissioner by said Ordinance No. 41, if
any are deemed necessary, as are proper and appropriate