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far as possible, all legal opinions and abstracts of title which
have heretofore been furnished to the City, or any department
or official thereof, and shall file and arrange such opinions and
abstracts in such manner and order as to be at all times readily
accessible, and shall make and preserve an index thereof. He
shall also procure all law books heretofore purchased by the
City and in the possession of any law officer or ex-law officer of
the City, and arrange them in a proper bookcase.

66. The City Solicitor shall have authority, with the writ-
ten approval of the Mayor, to institute on behalf of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, any suit, action or proceeding in
any court, or tribunal, local, State or Federal. All appeals on
behalf of the City to the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of
the United States, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
or to any other Court shall be taken upon the written order of
the City Solicitor, approved by the Mayor.

67. The City Solicitor and his Assistants shall be allowed
reasonable traveling expenses outside of the City, to be audited
by the Comptroller, when on business connected with the Law
Department.

Department of Public Safety.

68. There shall be a Department of Public Safety of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, which shall consist of the
Board of Fire Commissioners, Commissioner of Health, In-
spector of Buildings and Commissioners of Street Cleaning,
and ex officio the President of the Board of Police Commission-
ers. The head of said department shall consist of a Board of
Public Safety, composed of the President of the Board of Fire
Commissioners, who shall be President of said Board, Com-
missioner ,of Health, Inspector of Buildings, Commissioner of
Street Cleaning, and the President of the Board of Police Com-
missioners. This Board shall be for consultation and advice,
and it shall have no power to direct or control the duties or the
work of any sub-department. It shall perform such other
duties as may be required of it by ordinances not inconsistent
with this Article.