CITY OF BALTIMORE. 601

enacted with amendments by Chapter 797 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland for the year of 1906, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

Buildings, to direct in what part of Baltimore City buildings
of wood shall not be erected; to regulate and establish the size
of bricks that are to be used in the houses to be built in the
City of Baltimore.; to provide for the entry into and examina-
tion of all dwellings, lots, yards, inclosures and buildings,
cars, boats and vehicles of every description.; to ascertain their
condition for health, cleanliness and safety; to regulate the
building and maintenance of party walls, partition fences,
parapet and fire walls, smoke flues, fire places, hot-air flues,
boilers, kettles, smokestacks and stovepipes. To provide for
and regulate the safe construction, inspection and repairs of
all private and public buildings within the city; and to
compel the consumption of smoke and make such regulations as
may be deemed necessary to prevent the same from becoming
deleterious or offensive to health. To take down and remove,
or make safe and secure, any and all buildings, walls, struc-
tures or superstructures, at the expense of the owners thereof,
that are or may become dangerous, or to require their owners
or agents to take down and remove them, or put them in a
safe and sound condition at their own expense; to make any
and all costs and expenses incurred in, about the taking down
and removal, of making safe and secure of all buildings, walls,
structures or superstructures, as aforesaid, a lien upon the
interests of the owners in the land or improvements, or both,
and to provide for the enforcements of such liens by sale of
the property, whether real or personal, to regulate, restrain
or prohibit the erection of wooden or frame buildings within
the present limits of the city, and to remove the same at the
owner's expense when erected or suffered to remain contrary
to law or ordinance; to regulate the height, construction and
inspection of all new buildings hereafter erected in said city;
and the alteration and repairs of any buildings already erected,
or hereafter to be erected in said city; and the ordinance
regulating the construction and inspection of buildings in said
city passed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor
October 23, 1891, is hereby authorized and legalized in the same
manner as. if full authority had been given by the General
Assembly for the passage of the same prior to its enactment;
to regulate the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect
any steps, porticos, bay windows, bow windows, show win-
dows, awnings, signs, columns, piers or other projections or
structural ornaments of any character for the houses fronting
on any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said city; provided,