EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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tioned, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby

authorized and empowered to borrow temporarily such sum

or sums of money, the aggregate of such sums, however, not

to exceed two millions of dollars, as may be necessary to meet
and provide for the emergency now confronting the Mayor

Sum of money
to be bor-

and City Council of Baltimore by reason of the conflagration

rowed to
meet emer-

that occurred in the City of Baltimore on the 7th and 8th days
of February, 1904. The money so obtained to be expended

gencies con-
fronting the
Municipality

under the authority of the Board of Estimates, which Board,

of Baltimore.

as soon as practicable after the expenditure of any part of said

sum, shall report to the City Council all the circumstances

attending said expenditure and the necessity for the same.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved February 11, 1904.

CHAPTER 4.

AN ACT to provide for building an addition to the Court

House at Belair, Harford County.

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

land, That George L. VanBibber, A. Henry Strasbaugh, Stev-

enson A. Williams, Hugh A. Jones and William S. Forwood,

Jr., be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, and

they or a majority of them are authorized and empowered by

virtue of this Act to contract for and superintend the building
of an addition to the Court House in Belair sufficiently large

To build a
new Court
House for

to accommodate with offices all the public offices of Harford
County and the furnishing said Court House and offices when

Harford

County.

so constructed with necessary and proper cases for the reception

and preservation of the public records and with all the neces-

sary furniture and such other things as the public convenience

may require at a total cost not to exceed the sum of twenty-

five thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the Board of Commissioners

named in the preceding section or a majority of them are

hereby authorized and required to borrow, from time to time

and upon such terms as they may deem proper at a rate of
interest not exceeding 6 per cent, per annum, any sum or sums

Authorizing
the borrow-
ing of

of money that may be from time to time required and found

money.

necessary for the construction of said addition and to

furnishing said Court House and addition when completed.