EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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pose of examining such titles to property and rights as the

work of said Commission may render necessary and proper

to be examined, and of recording the abstracts of such titles;

which said conveyances and assistants the City Solicitor is

hereby authorized to employ at such rates of compensation as

he shall agree upon, and to discharge at pleasure.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said Commission shall have

Duties of the

the following powers and be charged with the following duties :

Commission.

(1) To lay out, open, extend, widen, straighten or close any

street, lane or alley, or any part thereof, in said burnt dis-

trict. (2) To establish and fix the building line, and the width

of the sidewalks on any street, lane or alley now existing

or to be laid out, opened, extended, widened or straightened

in said burnt district. (3) To open public squares and market

spaces in said burnt district; and (4) to lay out additions

and extensions to be made to the public wharves and docks

of Baltimore City, and to be made to the basin or harbor

of the City of Baltimore, and to acquire for and in the name

of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore the lands and

property within said burnt district which may be requisite

to make such additions and extensions, and to define the ex-

tent to which said harbor or basin is to be tilled in in said

burnt district. And said Commission shall have all powers

necessary and proper to the exercise of said powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That in executing the powers

conferred on said Commission by Section 2 of this Act, and

Extra powers
to be granted

in making the changes, additions and improvements set out

by municipal-

in any report or reports, and map or maps, approved as pro-

ity.

vided in this Act, the said Commission shall have such powers,

in addition to those herein granted, as may be conferred upon

it by any lawful ordinance or ordinances the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, which ordinance or ordinances the

Mayor and City Council is hereby fully authorized to adopt:

provided, no such ordinance or ordinances shall deprive said

Commission of any powers conferred on it by this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the method of proceeding

of said Commission shall be as follows : immediately on its

Proceedings

appointment and organization "and as soon as provision has

of said Com-
mission.

been made by ordinance for the expenses of said Commission.

it shall cause to be prepared on such scale as it may determine

a map or maps of said burnt district or of any part thereof.

It shall promptly proceed to lay down on said map or maps

and to locate on the ground (1) the streets, lanes and alleys