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improvement for the water front, harbor and basin as may
be best calculated to promote the improvements contemplated
by this Act.

3. The acquisition, from time to time, by gift, purchase,
lease, whatever the duration of the lease, or other methods of
acquisition, or by condemnation, of any land or property what-
soever, including streets, avenues, lanes or alleys, and interests,
franchises, easements, rights and privileges of any and every
kind, whether within the limits of the City of Baltimore, which
may be proper or desirable in connection with the objects of
this Act; and no ordinance or ordinances shall, in any case, be
necessary to the acceptance of any conveyance.

4. The construction and establishment of such additions to,
extensions of, and alterations or changes in, the public wharves,
docks and piers of the City of Baltimore, and the construction
and establishment of such new public wharves, docks and piers,
both within the limits of the City of Baltimore as may be
proper or desirable in connection with the objects and pur-
poses of this Act; and the construction and establishment
thereon, or adjacent thereto, of such public warehouses, sheds,
structures and buildings as may be desirable or proper in con-
nection with the objects of this Act; and, also the reconstruc-
tion, alteration, extension or change of existing bridges as may
be proper or desirable.

5. The laying out, opening, extending, widening, narrowing,
straightening, closing, grading, paving and curbing of any of
the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys or parts thereof, adjacent
to or leading to or along said water front, or leading or adja-
cent to or along or being upon, any of the public wharves,
docks and piers now or hereafter to be constructed, whether
such streets, avenues, lanes or alleys or parts thereof may be
within the limits of the City of Baltimore, and the establish-
ment and fixing of the building lines thereon and the width 'of
the sidewalks thereof, all as may be proper or desirable in con-
nection with the objects of this Act.

6. The widening, extending or deepening of the channels of
the harbor or basin of the City of Baltimore, whether within
the limits of said city, and the cleansing, scouring, clearing,
dredging or ballasting of the said harbor or basin and the said
channels, as well as the approaches thereto.

7. The affixing and placing of buoys or water marks at such
place or places in said harbor or basin, or the channels thereof,
or the approaches thereto, as may seem desirable.

Provided, however, that this enumeration of special objects
and purposes shall not be taken or construed as restricting or