EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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financial status and condition of the said several boards and

officers, and of Kent County, may be fully and accurately

determined.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 677.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 36

of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,

title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Charter," relating to the

Department of Finance of the City of Balimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 36, Article 4, of the Code of Public Local1

department of
Finance of

Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Char-

Baltimore

ter/' relating to the Department of Finance of the City of

City.

Baltimore be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

with amendments so as to read as follows :

36. The Board of Estimates shall be the head of the third

Sub-Department of Finance, and shall consist of the Mayor,

Board of Esti-
mates.

City Solicitor Comptroller, President of the Second Branch

City Council and President of the Board of Public Improve-

ments. The first meeting of said Board in every year shall be

called by notice from the Mayor or President of the Second

Branch City Council, personally served upon members of the

said Board. Subsequent meetings shall be called as the Board

may direct. The President of the Second Branch shall be

President of said Board, and one of the number shall act as

secretary, and said Board may employ such clerks as may be

necessary to discharge its duties; their number and compen-

sation shall be fixed by ordinance. The said Board shall have

power at any time to summon before it the heads of the de-

partments and sub-departments and all municipal officers and

special commissions or boards. The said Board shall annu-

Board to make

ally, between the first day of October and the first day of No-

out lists of
moneys to be

vember, meet, and by an affirmative vote of a majority of all

appropriated.

the members make out the following three lists of moneys to

be appropriated by the City Council for the next ensuing fiscal

year: First, a list to be known as the "Departmental Esti-

mates" of the amounts estimated to be required to pay the

expenses of conducting the public business for the next ensu-