1302 ARTICLE 4.

Court of Appeals, by any person or persons interested, including the city
itself, from the decision of said Commission in determining the amount
of assessment to be paid by any such property; the assessment, as finally
determined, shall be payable at such times and in such proportions, and
shall bear such rate of interest as the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall by ordinance provide, and shall be liens from the date of their
final determination on the parcels of said property upon which said assess-
ment shall be respectively assessed in the same way that other city taxes
in the City of Baltimore are now liens, and shall be collected and enforced
as other city taxes in the City of Baltimore are now collected and enforced,
or in such other manner as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall prescribe. All money, when and as derived from said assessments,
and all interest thereon shall be at once placed to the credit of the fund
styled by this Act as the New Paving Fund, and shall be available from
time to time to defray the cost of the works authorized by this Act, to the
same extent as the original proceeds derived from the sale of stock author-
ized by this Act are available. The said Commission shall be clothed
with each and every and all powers which may be necessary or proper for
these purposes or either of them, among which powers shall be the follow-
ing, that is to say, 1. To make all such preliminary investigations and to
do all such preliminary work as should, in its judgment, precede the
adoption by it of a plan or plans of street improvement under this Act.
2. To adopt such plan or plans of street improvement under this Act as
it may deem best calculated to promote the object of this Act. 3. To do

all such grading or re-grading, and to lay, construct or create all such
pavements or other street surface improvements as it may deem expedient
for carrying said plan or plans of street improvement into full effect; and
to select in its exclusive discretion, such kind of paving or other street

surface improvement material as it may deem best; provided, however,
that where the plans of the Sewerage Commission of Baltimore City pro-
vides for sewerage arrangements in any street, the said street shall not
be newly paved with improved pavement until all such sewerage arrange-
ments have been finally completed in the bed thereof. 4. To incorporate
with said plan or plans of street improvement, or otherwise utilize for
the purpose of this Act, so far as it may deem expedient, any or all exist-
ing public pavements or street surface improvements in the City of Bal-
timore, either in their present condition or with such repairs, modifica-
tions or changes as the said Commission may see fit to make; and to con-
demn, take up and remove, in its discretion, any or all such existing: public
pavements or street surface improvements, and to substitute therefor such
other pavements or street surface improvements as it may deem proper.
5. To appoint or employ professional or technical advisers and experts,

and such agents, assistants, clerks, employes and laborers, skilled or un-
skilled of all kinds, as it may deem requisite for the due and proper exe-
cution of the duties devolved upon it by this Act, or any of them, and to
fix their respective compensations and to remove or discharge them at its
pleasure (except such highly trained, experienced or skilled individuals