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spermaceti per hour, tested at a distance of not less than one mile from
the place of manufacture by a burner consuming five cubic feet of gas per
hour, and shall as regards purity, comply with the standard now or here-
after established by law.

1912, ch. 853.

462A. That if and when a proposition for the introduction of natural
gas into the City of Baltimore and for the supply of the same to the con-
sumers for a term not exceeding twenty-five years shall be submitted to the
Board of Estimates for the City of Baltimore, the same shall be by it fully
considered. If and when the said Board of Estimates shall have approved
such proposition or any modification thereof and shall have entered into
an agreement with any corporation either upon the proposition submitted
or otherwise, which it is hereby authorized to do, the agreement thus
reached shall be reduced to writing and shall thereupon be submitted to the
Public Service Commission of the State of Maryland for its approval as to
the rates therein prescribed; and as to each and all the terms, conditions
and provisions thereof, and upon such approval by the said Public Service
Commission, and not before the said agreement shall become binding upon
the City of Baltimore and upon the corporation named in said agreement
on the further approval of such agreement by ordinance of the City Coun-
cil of Baltimore and the approval of such ordinance by the Mayor; and
the officials of the City of Baltimore are thereupon required to duly exe-
cute such contract with the corporation therein named for the term of
years and in accordance with the rates, terms and conditions therein set
forth.

1912, ch. 853.

462B. That any such agreement may contain such provisions and
conditions with respect to the rates and conditions to consumers for the
supply of artificial gas, as shall be approved as above provided.

1912, ch. 853.

462C. That nothing contained in this Act shall limit or authorize any
contract that may limit in any manner the powers of the Public Service
Commission of Maryland.

HARBOR, DOCKS AND WHARVES.
HARBOR.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 267. 1884, ch. 309. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 351.

1908, ch. 170.

463. No alteration, extension or removal of wharves, piers, bulkheads
or pilings shall be made in the Patapsco River or tributaries without con-
sent of the Harbor Board.

Page v. Mayor, 34 Md. 558. Hazlehurst v. Mayor, 37 Md. 199. Williams v. Baker.
41 Md. 523. B. & O. R. R. Co. v. Chase. 43 Md. 24. Homer v. Pleasants, 66 Md.
477. Classen v. Chesapeake Co., 81 Md. 258.

See Res. 185, April 22, 1876.