244 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

arrange with the said companies for the removal of their turn-
pike gates beyond the City limits, and to appropriate such
sums of money as may be necessary to carry out these objects.

General Powers.

6. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have
full power and authority:

Buildings.—To direct in what part of the City of Baltimore
buildings of wood shall not be erected. To regulate and estab-
lish the size of bricks that are to be used in the houses to be built
in the City of Baltimore. To provide for the entry into and
examination of all dwellings, lots, yards, enclosures and build-
ings, cars, boats and vehicles of every description, to ascertain
their condition for health, cleanliness and safety; for the taking
down and removal of buildings, walls, structures or super-
structures that are or may become dangerous, or to require -
owners to remove them or put them into a safe and sound con-
dition at their own expense. To regulate the building and
maintenance of party walls, partition fences, parapet and fire
walls, smoke flues, fire-places, hot-air flues, boilers, kettles,
smoke stacks and stove-pipes. To provide for and regulate the
safe construction, inspection and repairs of all private and pub-
lic buildings within the City ; and to compel the consumption
of smoke, and make such regulations as may be deemed neces-
sary to prevent the same from becoming deleterious or offen-
sive to health. To regulate, restrain or prohibit the erection of
wooden or frame buildings within the present limits of the
City and to remove the same at the owner's expense when
erected or suffered to remain contrary to law or ordinance. To
regulate the height, construction and inspection of all new
buildings hereafter erected in said City ; and the alteration and
repairs of any buildings already erected or hereafter to be
erected in said City, and the ordinance regulating the construc-
tion and inspection of buildings in said City, passed by the City
Council and approved by the Mayor October 23, 1891, is
hereby authorized and legalized, in the same manner as if full
authority had been given by the General Assembly for the pas-
sage of the same prior to its enactment. To, regulate the limits