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Schools.—To establish in the City of Baltimore, in con-
formity with the provisions of this Article, a system of free pub-
lic schools, which shall include a school or schools for manual
or industrial training. To pass all ordinances for the protec-
tion of school houses and property, and to punish any person
that may disturb the sessions of the public schools. To levy
and collect, upon the assessable property in the City of Balti-
more as other taxes are levied and collected, such amount of
taxes as may be necessary to defray all expenses incurred for
educational purposes.

Sewers.—To provide for constructing, opening, enlarging or
straightening, subject to the provisions herein contained as to
the Board of Public Improvements and Board of Estimates,
any sewer or drain, public or private, through any private prop-
erty. To pave and keep in repair, subject to the provisions
herein contained as to the Board of Public Improvements and
Board of Estimates, all necessary sewers and drains, and to
pass all regulations necessary for the preservation of the same;
and to authorize any person appointed by it, or by the City
Engineer for that purpose, to enter upon the lands, grounds or
possessions of any person or body politic, through which the
common sewers or private sewers or drains run or may run, to
examine, inspect, regulate, make or repair the same. To con-
demn any land or interest in land in the mode provided in this
Article for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
in the construction of any sewers or sewerage system. To in-
spect and regulate house drainage and sewerage connections,
and to prescribe the kind and quality of material to be used for
such purposes.

Squares, Springs and Monuments.—To establish, regulate and
control all squares, springs and monuments erected or con-
structed within the City of Baltimore, and to provide for
the maintenance of same. To provide by ordinance for
the purchase or condemnation of all .that land lying in
the City of Baltimore between the lines of Dolphin street
on the north, Biddle street on the south, Jordan alley
on the east, and Morris alley on the west, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, upon a proper survey, to extend
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