of the City actually require such an improvement, and by the last named Board with such opinion attached to said ordinance it shall be sent to the Board of Estimates for its opinion, in writing, as to the probable cost of the same and whether the financial condition of the City will justify such an expenditure. No further action with regard to said ordinance shall be taken by the City Council until said reports have been made and submitted to both Branches of the City Council and read and entered on the respective journals of said Branches. It shall be the duty of both of the said Boards to promptly make the said reports, and the Board of Estimates shall return the same attached to said ordinance to the City Council.

86. The City Engineer, who shall be the head of the first · sub-department of Public Improvements, shall be appointed by the Mayor in the mode prescribed in section 25 of this Article, and hold his office as therein provided. He shall have control and supervision of the streets, highways, lanes and alleys of the City of Baltimore, both as to their construction, paving and curbing. He shall construct all sewers, unless otherwise provided by ordinance. He shall be a civil engineer in the active practice of his profession for five years, and one who has had responsible charge of work for at least that length of time. He shall perform all the duties heretofore performed by the City Commissioner unless otherwise provided in this Article. He shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article. He shall have power to appoint such subordinates as he may require, and fix their compensation, not, however, to exceed in number or compensation the limits fixed by ordinance.

87. The Water Board shall be the head of the second subdepartment of Public Improvements, and shall have charge of the water supply to the inhabitants of the City of Baltimore, and shall consist of five persons appointed by the Mayor in the manner prescribed in section 25 of this Article, and hold. their offices as therein provided. One of said five persons, who shall be the President of said Board and known as the "Water Engineer, and so named by the Mayor, shall be a civil

engineer in the active practice of his profession for five years,. and who has had responsible charge of work for at least that period of time. The Water Engineer shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and the other members of said Board shall serve without pay. All subordinates employed in said sub-department shall be appointed by the Water Engineer, subject to the approval of said Board, he shall fix their compensation not to exceed in the aggregate the amount appropriated by ordinance. The Water Engineer and Water Board shall perform such other duties as. are now or may hereafter be prescribed by ordinances not. inconsistent with this Article.

88. The Harbor Board shall be the head of the third subdepartment of Public Improvements, which shall have chargeof the harbor, wharves and navigable waters in and adjacent to the City of Baltimore. It shall consist of five persons appointed by the Mayor in the manner prescribed in section 25 of this Article, who shall hold their offices as therein provided. One of said five persons, who shall be the President of said Board and known as the Harbor Engineer, and so named by the Mayor, shall be a civil engineer in the active practice of his profession for five years, and who has had responsible charge of work for at least that period of time. The Harbor Engineer shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and the other members of said Board shall serve without pay. All subordinates employed in said sub-department shall be appointed by the Harbor Engineer, subject to the approval of said Board, who shall fix their compensation, not to exceed in the aggregate the amount appropriated by ordinance. The Harbor Engineer and Harbor Board shall perform such other duties as may hereafter be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article.

89. The Inspector of Buildings shall be the head of the fourth sub-department of Public Improvements, and shall be the same officer whose appointment is provided for herein in the Department of Public Safety. The duties he shall perform in this department and sub-department shall be the superin-tendence of the construction and repairing of all buildings built.

by the City, unless otherwise provided by ordinances. He shall receive no additional pay for his services rendered in this department. He shall perform such other duties in this department as may be required of him by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article.

Department of Public Parks and Squares.

90. There shall be a Department of Public Parks and Squares of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The head of said department shall consist of a Board of Park Commissioners, composed of five members, to serve without pay, appointed by the Mayor in the manner prescribed in section 25 of this Article, and to hold their offices as therein provided. One of whom shall be President thereof, and shall be so designated by the Mayor, and said Board shall elect a Secretary, who shall be paid a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and he shall be the clerk of said Board, and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by said Board. The said Board shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with this Article.

91. The Board of Park Commissioners shall have charge and control of all public parks, squares, springs and monuments belonging to, controlled by or in the custody of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

92. The Board of Park Commissioners shall have power from time to time to make such rules and regulations for the government and preservation of order within the parks, squares, springs and monuments belonging to, controlled by, or in the custody of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as it may deem expedient. To carry out such regulations, fines not exceeding in any one case one hundred dollars shall be imposed for breaches of said rules and regulations, which fines shall be recoverable as other fines are in the name of the City, and said amounts so recovered shall be used and appropriated to the purposes of the Board of Park Commissioners.

93. The Board of Park Commissioners is authorized and empowered to regulate the speed of vehicles and equestrians within one mile of the approach and within the limits of said parks and squares, and to impose the fines provided for in the preceding section for the violation of any regulations it may establish in this connection, to be recovered as therein provided.

94. The several members of the said Board of Park Commissioners shall have the power of conservators of the peace within the limits of said parks and squares.

95. The Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City is directed at the request of the Board of Park Commissioners to detail from time to time such of the regular police force of said City as the said Board of Park Commissioners may deem necessary for the preservation of order within said parks and squares, according to the regulations aforesaid, which policemen shall be under the direction of said Board of Park Commissioners, and shall have the same power in said parks and squares that the police of the City of Baltimore have as conservators of the peace in Baltimore City or elsewhere.

96.

In addition to the powers now or hereafter conferred upon the Board of Park Commissioners, it is authorized to form zoological collections within the limits of said parks or squares by the purchase and collection of live, wild or other animals, for the purpose of public exhibition for the instruction and recreation of the people, with power to make contracts in regard thereto; and shall be capable at law to hold, in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and at pleasure to dispose of gifts, devises and other property for the use of said collections.

97. The said Board of Park Commissioners shall have full power to employ and compensate all persons whom, in its judgment, it may deem proper, in maintaining and supporting such parks, squares, springs and monuments, or any other buildings, collection, garden or reservation provided for in this Article. The distribution of the park fund for the main

tenance of the different parks and squares shall be made by the Park Commissioners; provided, nothing contained in this Section or elsewhere in this Article shall be taken or construed to exempt the said Board of Park Commissioners from a full compliance with all the requirements of Section 36 of this Article, and the said Board of Park Commissioners shall spend no part of said park fund unless such expenditure is authorized and included in the annual ordinance of estimates; and provided further, the Board of Park Commissioners who go into office on the first day of March, in the year 1900, shall make such report to the Board of Estimates as soon thereafter as possible, which report shall include all expenditures to be made by said Board of Park Commissioners for the remainder of the current fiscal year, and the Board of Estimates shall prepare and submit to the City Council a supplemental ordinance of estimates, to include the amount which the said Board of Estimates may deem proper to be spent by said Board of Park Commissioners for the remainder of said current fiscal year.

98. The night watchmen employed by the Board of Park Commissioners shall have, while on duty, the same power that police in said City have as conservators of the peace.

Department of Education.

99. There shall be a Department of Education of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The head of said department shall consist of a Board of School Commissioners composed of nine persons, who shall serve without pay, and who shall be appointed by the Mayor in the mode prescribed in section 25 of this Article, and removable as therein provided. One of said Commissioners shall be President of said Board and so designated by the Mayor when appointed. Their term of office shall be six years, three of them to retire at the end of every two years. The Board first appointed shall determine by lot their term of office, so as to provide for the retirement in the succeeding two and four years of three of their number. The members of said Board shall be residents of the City of Baltimore for at least one year and citizens of the State of Maryland for at least five years prior to their