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upon such terms as may be agreed upon. To appoint an Elec-
trical Commission, with such powers and duties as it may
deem proper or appropriate for carrying out the aforesaid pro-
visions of this section relating to conduits. To require all such
wires, or any part or parts thereof, and the poles carrying the
same, to be removed from the surface of the streets, lanes
or alleys of said City, or any part or parts thereof, and to
require such wires to be placed in such conduits, all under
such penalty as it may prescribe. To prescribe and establish
reasonable rentals to be paid by any company or person using
any of said conduits, by whomsoever the same may be con-
structed, for the use thereof, and to provide for the collection
of such rentals, in addition to the ordinary processes by such
summary methods as it may deem appropriate; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed
or taken to modify or change, in any manner, the provisions
of Ordinance Number Forty-one, of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, approved May 9, 1889, or the rights
and privileges granted thereby to the companies therein named
or either of them. To purchase, with the County Commis-
sioners of any adjoining or neighboring counties of said City,
all bridges and turnpike roads, or any portions thereof, lead-
ing toward said City, at such times and upon such terms as it
and said County Commissioners on the one part, and the owner
of such bridges and highways on the other, may mutually
agree, and when so purchased all or any of them shall
thereafter be free public highways, and as such under
the care and management of said City and said County Com-
missioners, as they may respectively provide and stipulate as
between them. To exercise, in reference to opening streets and
alleys through Cathedral Cemetery or burial ground in said
City, all the rights and powers which it has, or may hereafter
be conferred upon it, in reference to opening streets, lanes or
alleys in said City. With the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel County, to cause to be erected and maintained at
their joint expense lamps along and on Light Street Bridge,
not more than seventy-five yards apart; provided that there
shall be at least one lamp at each end of the draw of said bridge,
and the said lamps shall be attended to, cleaned, lighted at