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CHAP. 401
General
powers.
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5. To appoint or employ professional or technical advisers
and experts and such agents, assistants, clerks, employes
and laborers, skilled and unskilled, of all kinds, as it may
deem requisite for the due and proper execution 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 as it may agree to appoint
or employ upon special terms for definite and fixed periods
of time), and to exact from them such indemnity bonds for
the proper performance of their respective duties as it may
deem proper; provided, however, that the chief engineer of
such commission under this Act shall be the city engineer.
6. To frame, publish and enforce such reasonable rules
and regulations for its own government, and for the super-
vision, protection, management and conduct of its work as it
may deem expedient.
7. To make and enter into in the name and on behalf of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all con-
tracts, agreements or stipulations germane to the scope of
its duties and powers under this Act.
8. To purchase, hire or otherwise lawfully obtain the use
of all such machinery, tools, implements, appliance, supplies,
materials and working agencies as it may need for its
purposes; provided, however, that this enumeration of special
powers shall not be construed as restricting in any degree
the scope of the general powers hereinbefore conferred upon
said commission.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
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May acquire
by gift, pur-
chase, etc.,
any private
property.
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Council of Baltimore, acting by and through the agency of
said commission, may acquire by gift, purchase or other like
methods of acquisition, or by condemnation, any private
property, rights or interests, franchises or easements that may
exist in any part or parts of any of the beds of any of the
public lanes, alleys, avenues, streets or highways hereinbefore
mentioned, and that said commission may require for the pur-
pose of giving full effect to the objects of this Act, and when
and so often as resort shall be had to condemnation proceed-
ings, the proceedure shall be such as may now or at any time
hereafter be provided for by any lawful ordinance or ordi-
nances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, adopted
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