320 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

after qualifying as aforesaid, are hereby authorized to make
requisitions from time to time, upon the mayor, register, Comp-
troller of the city of Baltimore, or other proper disbursing
officer or officers of the corporation, for such sums of money as
they may deem necessary for executing their duties under this
article; Provided, however, the same shall not exceed in any year
the amount so as aforesaid certified, or which may thereafter be
certified for that year, to the mayor and city council aforesaid,
and in case the said disbursing officer or officers shall not forth-
with pay over the amount of each requisition as made, it shall
be the duty of said board, and they are hereby authorized and
required to issue certificates of indebtedness, in the name of the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, in such amounts as they
may deem advisable for the amount of such requisitions respect-
ively, bearing interest at six per cent. per annum, payable at not
more than twelve months after date, and signed by a majority
of the board, and to raise the money on said certificates by
pledging or disposing of the same; which certificates shall be re-
ceivable at par, in payment of city taxes, and be as binding on
said corporation, and as recoverable against it, as if the mayor
and city council of Baltimore had themselves issued said certi- .
ficates; and the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have
no power or authority to levy or collect any tax, or appropriate
any money for the payment of any police force other than that'
to be organized and employed under this article, and no officer
or servant of the said mayor and city council shall disburse any
money therefor; and the power of the said mayor and city
council to levy and collect taxes, and appropriate and disburse
money for the payment of the police force to be organized or
employed under this article, shall be exercised as in this article
directed, and not otherwise; Provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall affect the power of said mayor and city
council, under the nineteenth section of the fourth article of the
Constitution; and it is further enacted, that in case the amount
so as aforesaid to be estimated by the said board, shall, from any
unforeseen cause, prove insufficient for the necessary expenses of
the current year, the said board are hereby authorized and
empowered to issue certificates and raise money therefrom as
hereinbefore provided, to meet the said exigency; Provided, how-
ever, that no such additional issue shall exceed the sum of thirty
thousand dollars, in any one year, and that the amount thereof
shall be added to the estimate, assessment and levy for the year
next ensuing; and that the said certificates shall not be made
payable at. an earlier date than the first day of August next after