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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

propriation provided for in said ordinance shall be diverted or

used under any circumstances for any purpose than that

named in said ordinance, nor shall the Comptroller draw any

warrant for any of the items in said Ordinance of Estimates

unless he has received said amounts and they are actually to

the credit of the City Council and such department, sub-de-

No temporary
loan shall be

partment, officers, commissioners or boards. No temporary

authorized.

loan shall be authorized or made to pay any deficiency arising

from a failure to realize sufficient income from revenue and

taxation to meet the amounts provided in said Ordinance of

Estimates, but the City Council may temporarily borrow money

for its use in anticipation of the receipts of taxes levied for any

year. In case of any such deficiency there shall be a pro rata

abatement of all appropriations, except those for the payment

of State taxes and the principal and interest of the city debt,-

and such amounts as are fixed by law and contained in said

ordinance ; and in case of any surplus arising in any fiscal year

by reason of an excess of income received from the estimated

revenue over the expenditures for such year, the said surplus

shall become a part of the annual revenue of the city, and shall

be available for the general expenditures of the city for the

next ensuing fiscal year. Until the organization of the said

Board of Estimates by the Mayor first elected under the pro-

Certain tax

visions of this Article, as provided in Section 25 of said Ar-

officials to
compose the

ticle, the Mayor, Comptroller, City Register and City Solicitor

board.

shall compose a Board to perform all the duties required of the

Board of Estimates by the provisions of this Article.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 678.

AN ACT to regulate certain primary elections in Montgomery

County, in the State of Maryland.

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

Regulating
certain pri-

land, That the political, parties which, at the general election

mary elec-

November 3, 1903, polled ten per cent, of the entire vote

tions.

cast in Montgomery County, shall hereafter, in the year 1905,

and biennially thereafter, nominate their candidates for all

local offices to be voted for at the general election in 1905,

and biennially thereafter, including the candidate for the Sen-

ate and members of the House of Delegates, by means of