EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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plan or plans in the premises as may be adopted by it, all
such public lanes, alleys, avenues, streets or highways, or all
such parts thereof in the city of Baltimore, as in the judg-
ment of the said commission should be so graded, shelled,
graveled, macadamized, paved or otherwise surfaced and
curbed, re-graded, re-shelled, re-graveled, re-macadamized,
re-paved or otherwise re-surfaced or re-curbed; and 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

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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 regrading, and to lay, con-
struct 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 kinds of paving or
other street surface improvement material as it may deem
best; provided, however, that where the plans of the Sewer-
age Commission of Baltimore city provides for sewerage
arrangements in any street, the said street shall not be newly
paved with improved pavement until all such sewerage
arrangements 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 existing public
pavements or street surface improvements in the city of
Baltimore, either in their present condition or with such
repairs, modifications or changes as the said commission
may see fit to make, and to condemn, 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.

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powers.