JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

timore," sub-title "Charter," be and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as fol-
lows:

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10. Before any grant of the franchises or right to use any
highway, avenue, street, lane or alley, or other public prop- 1
erty either on, above or below the surface of the same, shall
be made the proposed specific grant except as provided in the
proviso to Section thirty-seven of this Article, embodied in
the form of a brief advertisement prepared by the Board of
Estimates at the expense of the applicant, shall be published
by the Comptroller for at least three days in one daily news-
paper published in Baltimore City, to be designated by the
Board of Estimates, and all the provisions of Section thirty-
seven of this Article shall be complied with.

Use of
Highways, etc.

37 . Before any grant shall be made by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, of the franchise or right to use any
street, avenue, alley or highway, or the grant of the franchise
or right for the use of any public property mentioned in Sec-
tion seven of this Article, the proposed specific grant with the
exception hereafter in this section made, shall be embodied
in the form of an ordinance with all the terms and conditions
required by the provisions of this Article, and such others as
may be right and proper, including a provision as to the rates,
fares and charges, if the grant provides for the charging of
rates, fares and charges, and a provision that the franchise or
right shall be executed and enjoyed six months after the
grant. The said ordinance shall after having been introduced
in either branch of the City Council, and after the first read-
ing, be referred forthwith by the branch in which the same is
offered, to the Board of Estimates. The said Board shall make
diligent inquiry as to the money value of said franchise or right
proposed to be granted, and the adequacy of the proposed
compensation to be paid therefore to the city as offered in the
ordinance already introduced, and the propriety of the terms
and conditions of said ordinance, and the said Board is em-
powered to increase the compensation to be paid therefor to
the city and alter the terms and conditions of said ordinance;
provided, such alterations are not inconsistent with the require-
ment and provisions of this Article, and it shall be the duty of
said Board to fit in said ordinance the said compensation at
the largest amount it may be able by advertisement or other-
wise to obtain for said franchise or right, and no grant thereof
by the City Council shall be made except for the compensa-
tion and on the terms approved by a vote or resolution of the
said Board, entered on the minutes or record of such Board,

Rates for
Franchise,
granted.