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impairing, in any degree, the scope of the general objects and
purposes hereinbefore mentioned as contemplated by this Act.

And provided further, that none of the work contemplated
by this Act shall be done or executed under this Act, and none
of the rights and powers hereby authorized shall be exercised
under this Act, unless and until the plans and intentions of
the departments, sub-departments, commissions, boards or
officials, with respect thereto, shall have been submitted to and
authorized and approved by the Board of Estimates of the City
of Baltimore or by such other board as may hereafter be vested
with the functions now exercised by the Board of Estimates.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, through the agencies hereinafter men-
tioned, is hereby vested and clothed with full power and
authority to execute and carry into effect each and all of the
objects and to do each and all of the things provided for or
contemplated by this Act as aforesaid, and to have and exercise
each, every and all powers, and to do any and all things which,
by any thing short of a palpably forced construction, it may
deem desirable, convenient or proper to further and accomplish
the objects of this Act or any of them; and especially is the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting in this respect
through the agency of the Board of Estimates, fully authorized
and empowered to rent, lease or hire out all public wharves,
docks, piers, warehouses, sheds, structures and buildings, or
parts thereof, or rights of uses thereof or therein, or space
therein, upon such terms and conditions, to such persons, firms
or corporations, and for such duration, as to said Board of
Estimates may seem proper; and any board in which the powers
now exercised by the Board of Estimates may hereafter be
vested, shall exereise the functions by this section conferred
upon said Board of Estimates.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when and as often
as resort shall be had under this Act to condemnation proceed-
ings in connection with laying out, opening, extending, widen-
ing, narrowing, straightening or closing of any streets, ave-
nues, lanes or alleys or parts thereof, then after the authoriza-
tion and approval, as aforesaid, of the Board of Estimates,
such proceedings shall be instituted, prosecuted and conducted
by the Commissioners for opening streets of the City of Balti-
more, and the procedure of said Commissioners and their rights
and powers, shall be such as now or hereafter may be pre-
scribed by law in relation to their ordinary duties and powers
of the same nature, provided that no preliminary notice shall,
in any case, be requisite to the exercise by the said Commis-
sioners, after the prior authorization and approval of the Board