EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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in the preceding lists. This list shall be known as the "Esti-

mates for Annual Appropriations." The purpose and object

of this provision is that said three lists shall embrace all

moneys to be expended for the next ensuing fiscal year for all

purposes by the city. After said three lists have been pre-

pared, the Board of Estimates shall cause to be prepared a

draft of an ordinance to be submitted to the .City Council pro-

viding appropriations sufficient to meet the amounts called for

by said three lists, and the said Board shall cause a copy of said

proposed ordinance, certified by the signatures of a majority

of them, to be forthwith published in two daily newspapers

in Baltimore City, for two successive days, and shall, imme-

diately after said publication, transmit a copy of the draft

of the said proposed ordinance to the President of each Branch

of the City Council, whereupon a special meeting of the City

Council shall be forthwith called by the Mayor to consider

such proposed ordinance. It shall be the duty of the two

Duties of the
City Council.

Branches of the City Council, when so assembled, to consider

and investigate the estimates contained in said proposed ordi-

nance, and to hold daily sessions for its consideration until

said ordinance is passed. The two Branches of the City Coun-

cil, by a majority vote of all the members elected to each

Branch, may reduce the said amounts fixed by the said Board

in said proposed ordinance, except such items thereof as are

now or may hereafter be fixed by law, and except such items

as may be inserted by said Board to pay State taxes, and to

pay the interest and principal of the municipal debt. The City

Council shall not have the power to increase the amounts fixed

by the Board nor insert new items in the proposed ordinance.

When said proposed ordinance, embracing said estimates, shall

have been duly passed by both Branches of the City Council

and approved by the Mayor, it shall be known as the "Ordi-

nance of Estimates for the year —— ," and said several sums

shall be and become appropriated, after the beginning of the

next ensuing fiscal year, for the several purposes therein

named, to be used by the City Council, departments, sub-de-

partments, municipal officers not embraced in a department,

and special commission or boards therein named, and for no

other purposes or uses whatever. The. City Council shall not

Council cannot

have the power, by any other or subsequent ordinance or reso-

enlarge any
item.

lution, to enlarge any item contained in said ordinance after

the same is duly passed, nor shall the City Council, by any

subsequent ordinance or otherwise, appropriate any sums of

money to be used for the next ensuing fiscal year, for any of the

purposes embraced in said Ordinance of Estimates. No ap-