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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and attached to said ordinance, with the signatures of a ma-
jority of said Board signed to the same. The provisions of
this section shall apply to the renewal or extension of any
franchise or right relating to the use of any of the public prop-
erty mentioned in Section 7 of this Article now existing or
which may hereafter be granted to any person or body corpo-
rate; provided, that the right to use the streets, avenues,
alleys or other public property by any person or body corpo-
rate for bow or bay-windows, hitching-post, areaways, steps,
planting of trees, storm doors, drains and drain-pipes, stands,
or other such temporary or similar iises, may be granted by
the Board of Estimates for such an amount of money and upon
such terms and conditions as the said Board may consider
right and proper. Before said Board shall grant any such
right, the person or body corporate seeking the same shall file
before said Board, in writing, an application for such use, and
in said application the use desired shall be stated, and what
the applicant is willing to pay for the same must be given, and
such person or body corporate shall only enjoy such use on the
payment of the amount of money named by said Board, and
on the terms and conditions said Board shall prescribe in writ-
ing, and no ordinance or advertisement shall be necessary or
made in such cases as are named in this proviso of this sec-
tion. Provided, however, that copies of said applications be
served upon the adjoining property-owners by said applicant
before filing said application before said Board.

Collector of
Water Rents
and Licenses

59. The Collector of Water Rents and Licenses shall be the
head of the sixth sub-department of finance, and shall be ap-
pointed by the Mayor in the mode prescribed in Section 25 of
this Article, and hold his office as therein provided. He shall
be paid the salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per
annum, payable monthly. He shall collect all water rents and
license fees, and all other dues or revenues to which the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore is or may be entitled, except
otherwise provided in this Article, and he shall have such
assistants and clerks and shall perform such other duties as
shall be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this
Article. All licenses imposed by ordinances shall be due and
collectable in the first week of January in each year, and it
shall be the duty of said Collector of Water Rents and
Licenses to see that said licenses are paid at that time; pro-
vided, that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may, if
the public service permits, assign the duties to be performed
by this section to be performed by the Collector of Water
Rents and Licenses to some other municipal official, and when
so done by ordinance this office may be abolished.