646 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

them, among which powers shall be the following, that is to
say: 1. To make all such preliminary investigations and to do
all such preliminary work as should, in its judgment, precede
the adoption by it of a plan or plans of street improvement
under this Act. 2, To adopt such plan or plans of street im-
provement under this Act as it may deem best calculated to
promote the object of this Act. 3. To do all such grading or
re-grading, and to lay, construct or create all such pavements
or other street surface improvements as it may deem expedient
for carrying said plan or plans of street improvement into full
effect; and to select, in its exclusive discretion, such kinds of
paving or other street surface improvement material as it may
deem best; provided, however, that where the plans of the
Sewerage Commission of Baltimore city provides for sewerage
arrangements in any street, the said street shall not be newly
paved with improved pavement until all such sewerage arrange-
ments have been finally completed in the bed thereof. 4. To in-
corporate with said plan or plans of street improvement, or
otherwise utilize for the purpose of this Act, so far as it may
deem expedient, any or all existing public pavements or street-
surface improvements in the city of Baltimore, either in their
present condition or with such repairs, modifications or changes
as the said commission may see fit to make; and to condemn,
take up and remove, in its discretion, any or all such existing
public pavements or street-surface improvements, and to sub-
stitute therefor such other pavements or street-surface improve-
ments as it may deem proper. 5. To appoint or employ pro-
fessional or technical advisers and experts, and such agents,
assistants, clerks, employes and laborers, skilled or unskilled,
of all kinds, as it may deem requisite for the due and proper
execution of the duties devolved upon it by this Act, or any of
them, and to fix their respective compensations and to remove
or discharge them at its pleasure (except such highly trained,
experienced or skilled individuals as it may agree to appoint
or employ upon special terms for definite and fixed periods of
time), and to exact from them such indemnity bonds for the
proper performance of their respective duties as it may deem
proper; provided, however, that the chief engineer of such
commission under this Act shall be the City Engineer. 6. To
frame, publish and enforce such reasonable rules and regula-
tions for its own government, and for the supervision, protec-
tion, management and conduct of its work as it may deem
expedient. 7. To make and enter into in the name and on be-
half of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any and all
contracts, agreements or stipulations germane to the scope of
its duties and powers under this Act. 8. To purchase, hire or