868 ARTICLE 4.

scribe. To prescribe and establish reasonable rentals to be paid by any
company or person using any of said conduits, by whomsoever the same
may be constructed, for the use thereof, and to provide for the collection
of such rentals, in addition to the ordinary processes by such summary
methods as it may deem appropriate; provided, however, that nothing
contained in this Charter shall be deemed or taken to modify or change,
in any manner, the provisions of Ordinance Number Forty-one, of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved May 9, 1889, or the
rights and privileges granted thereby to the companies therein named or
either of them.

Hooper v. City Pass. Ry. Co,, 85 Md. 110. C. & P. Tel. Co. v. Baltimore, 89 Md.
689. C. & P. Tel. Co. v. Baltimore, 90 Md. 638. C. & P. Tel. Co. v Baltimore, 92 Md.
692. Purnell T. McLane. 98 Md. 590. Cf. Edison Co. T. Hooper, So Md. 110. Simon's
Sons v. Md. Tel. Co., 99 Md. 173.

(n) BRIDGES AND TURNPIKE ROADS.

1824, ch. 105. P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 857. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 818.

To purchase, with the County Commissioners of any adjoining or
neighboring counties of said city, all bridges and turnpike roads, or any
portions thereof, leading toward said city, at such times and upon such
terms as it and said County Commissioners on the one part, and the
owner of such bridges and highways on the other, may mutually agree,
and when so purchased al] or any of them shall thereafter be free public
highways, and as such under the care and management of said city and
said County Commissioners, as they may respectively provide and stipu-
late as between them.

Hooper v. President. B. & Y. Turnpike Road, 34 Md. 521. Balto. & Havre de
Grace Turnpike Co. v. Union Ry. Co., 35 Md. 224. Peddicord v. B. C. & E. M. R. R.
Co., 34 Md. 468. M. & C. C. of Baltimore v. Turnpike Co.. 80 Md. 541. See Frush
v. Mayor, City Court. Oct. 15, 1874, decision of Brown, C. J.

(o) DISTRIBUTING POLES AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES.

1908, ch. 168.

To erect and construct through the Electrical Commission, in connec-
tion with the underground conduits now in course of construction by said
Commission, distributing poles or other similar structures; and to compel
and regulate the use of said poles or other similar structures by indi-
viduals and corporations to the same extent as the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore can now compel and regulate the use of underground
conduits by individuals or corporations.

(27) SURVEYOR.

P. L. L. (1860). Art. 4, sec. 865. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 825.
To prescribe by ordinance the duties and compensation of the City Sur-
veyor.