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docket and duplicate pleadings of all suits, actions, or proceedings in which
the city, or any department or official thereof, is interested, pending in
any Court or tribunal, upon which docket such appropriate entries shall
be made as to show at all times the condition of each one of such cases.
He shall also keep and record in a book to be provided for that purpose
the original or duplicate copies of all written opinions furnished by the
Law Department to the City, or to any department or official thereof, and
also of all abstracts of title furnished to the city by the Law Department.
He shall also procure as far as possible all legal opinions and abstracts of
title which have heretofore been furnished to the city, or any department
or official thereof, and shall file and arrange such opinions and abstracts
in such manner and order as to be at all times readily accessible, and
shall make and preserve an index thereof. He shall also procure all law
books heretofore purchased by the city and in possession of any law officer
or ex-law officer of the city, and arrange them in a proper bookcase.

1898, ch. 123.

66. The City Solicitor shall have authority, with the written approval
of the Mayor, to institute on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, any suit, action or proceeding in any court or tribunal, local,
State or Federal. All appeals on behalf of the city to the Court of Ap-
peals, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals or to any other Court shall be taken upon the written
order of the City Solicitor, approved by the Mayor.

M. & C. C. of Baltimore v. Turnpike Co., 80 Md. 536.

67. The City Solicitor and his assistant shall be allowed reasonable
traveling expenses outside of the city, to be audited by the Comptroller,
when on business connected with the Law Department.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

189S. ch. 123.

68. There shall be a Department of Public Safety of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, which shall consist of the Board of Fire Com-
missioners, Commissioner of Health, Inspector of Buildings* and Com-
missioner of Street Cleaning,+ and ex officio the Police Commissioner.
The head of said department shall consist of a Board of Public Safety,
composed of the President of the Board of Fire Commissioners, who shall
be President of said Board, Commissioner of Health, Inspector of Build-
ings, Commissioner of Street Cleaning and the Police Commissioner.
This Board shall be for consultation and advice, and it shall have no
power to direct or control the duties or the work of any sub-department.
It shall perform such other duties as may be required of it by ordinances
not inconsistent with this Charter.

* Now Buildings Engineer. See sec. 85A hereof, p. 929.

+ Now Engineer o£ Street Cleaning. See sec. 85A hereof, p. 930.