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within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay
windows or other structural ornaments to houses fronting on
any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said City...

Carriages.—To license and regulate all carriages and other
vehicles owned or used for the purpose of business or pleasure,
and also all hackney coaches, .carriages, carts, drays, omnibuses,
wagons and other vehicles, kept for hire or hired in said City;
and also to license and regulate the employment of all hackmen,
draymen, wagoners, carters, porters and watermen, plying for
hire within the limits, and to pass all necessary and proper regu-
lations respecting the same ; provided, however, that all rev-
enue arising from said licenses shall be applied to the paving or
repaving of the public high-ways of the City. Every carriage,
coach, or other vehicle moved by horses or other animal power,
which shall be used for the conveyance of persons within the
City of Baltimore for hire or compensation, shall be deemed a
hackney carriage. To regulate the breadth of the wheels of
wagons, carts and drays to be used for hauling burdens on the
streets of said City, but such regulations shall not affect per-
sons hauling produce to said City.

Chimneys.—To license and regulate the sweeping of chimneys
and fix the rates thereof, and to regulate the sweeping of any
chimney by the neglect of which the City may be endangered,
and to ascertain and regulate the width of those to be built in the
City.

Condemnation of Property.—To acquire, by purchase or con-
demnation, any land or property, or any interest therein, which
it may require for school-houses, engine-houses, courthouses,
markets, streets, bridges and their approaches, the establish-
ment or enlargement of parks, squares, gardens or other public
places, or for any other public or municipal purpose, and may
provide such methods of condemnation of any land or property,
or interest therein, situated wholly or partly within the City of
Baltimore, as it may deem proper; under such procedure as
it may adopt, it shall provide for reasonable notice to the owner
or owners, and for appeals to the Baltimore City Court, by any
person interested, including the Mayor and City Council of