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Debts.
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Sec. 7. From and after the adoption of this Constitu
tion, no debt (except as hereinafter excepted), shall be
created by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore;
nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore be given or loaned to, or in aid of any indi-
viudnal, association, or corporation; nor shall the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore have the power to involve
the City of Baltimore in the construction of works of
internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto,
which shall involve the faith and credit of the City, nor
make any appropriation therefor, unless such debt or
credit be authorized by an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, and by an ordinance of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimere, submitted to the legal voters
of the City of Baltimore, at such time and place as may
be fixed by said ordinance, and approved by a majority
of the votes cast at such time and place; but the Mayor
and City Council may, temporarily, borrow any amount
of money to meet any deficiency in the City Treasury,
or to provide for any emergency arising from the neces-
sity of maintaining the police, or preserving the safety
and sanitary condition of the City, and may make due
and proper arrangements and agreements for the re-
moval and extension, in whole or in part, of any and
all debts and obligations created according to Law
before the adoption of this Constitution.
Mayor, etc., of Balto, v. Gill, 31 Md. 375. Pumphrey v.
Mayor & C. C. of Balto., 47 Md. 145. Balto. City v. Gorter, 93
Md. I.
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Laws in force.
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Sec. 8. All Laws and Ordinances now in force appli-
cable to the City of Baltimore, not inconsistent with this
Article, shall be, and they are hereby continued until
changed in due course of Law.
Hooper v. New, 85 Md. 565.
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Changes au-
thorized.
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Sec. 9. The General Assembly may make such
changes in this Article, except in Section 7th thereof,
as it may deem best; and this Article shall not be so
construed or taken as to make the political corporation,
of Baltimore independent of, or free from the control
which the General Assembly of Maryland has over all
such Corporations in this State.
Pumphrey v. Mayor, etc., of Balto., 47 Md. 145.
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