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a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 146
(House Bill 608)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness
as evidence thereof, to an amount not exceeding Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00), the proceeds derived
from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for the
acquisition, by purchase, condemnation or any other legal means,
of land or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore,
and for constructing and erecting on said land or property, or on
any land or property now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, buildings, structures or facilities to
be used by the Fire Department of Baltimore City for fire sta-
tions, and for the acquisition and installation of equipment for any
and all new facilities authorized to be constructed or erected under
the provisions hereof, and for doing any and all things necessary,
proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all
of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing said
municipality to submit an ordinance or ordinances for said purpose
to the legal voters of Baltimore City, and providing generally for
the issuance and sale of said certificates of indebtedness.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That:

(a)    The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized to create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of
indebtedness (hereafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to an
amount not exceeding Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($2,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to be used
for the purpose or purposes hereinafter mentioned, but said debt
shall not be created and said bonds shall not be issued, in whole or in
part, unless an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall be first
submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time and
place as may be fixed by said ordinance or ordinances and be ap-
proved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and place, all as
required by Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of Maryland;
and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any
ordinance or ordinances for the issuance of said bonds, or any part
thereof, to the legal voters of Baltimore City, may submit and re-
submit the same at any municipal election as well as at any general
election to be held in Baltimore City.

(b)    The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may submit, by
one ordinance, the whole of the debt authorized by this Act to the
legal voters of Baltimore City at one time, or it may, by one or more