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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sixty dollars and seventy-four cents, forming part of the

purchase price paid by the Fuller Syndicate for the interests

of the City of Baltimore in the Western Maryland Rail-

road Company, and heretofore passed to the credit of the

General Sinking Fund of said city, and the interest ac-

cumulated or to accumulate thereon.

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

Municipality
to draw on

land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and

the General
empowered

it is hereby empowered to appropriate, from time to time,

Sinking

without regard to the jurisdiction of the Board of Estimates

Fund.

in the matter of appropriations, any amount or amounts out

of any balance not appropriated at the time by the said cor-

poration for any other purpose pursuant to authority granted

to it by the General Assembly of Maryland, of the sum of

four million four hundred and twenty-two thousand four

hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-four cents, forming

part of the purchase price paid by the Fuller Syndicate for

the interests of the City of Baltimore in the Western Maryland

Railroad Company, and heretofore passed to the credit of the

General Sinking Fund of said city, and the interest accumu-

lated or to accumulate thereon, for the purpose of paying

off any sum or sums borrowed temporarily by the said cor-

poration, pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of

Maryland, passed at its January Session in the year 1904,

and entitled "An Act to authorize the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore to borrow temporarily such sum or sums

of money as may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate

two millions of dollars to meet the emergency created by

Meeting exi-

the disastrous conflagration which occurred in the City of Balti-

gencies cre-

more on the seventh and eighth days of February, 1904,"

ated by the
great fire.

or expended by the said corporation out of the annual revenues,

or general receipts of the said corporation in defraying the

cost of removing debris and rubbish resulting from said fire

from the public highways of Baltimore City, or in meeting

any of the other exigences created by said fire, or for the

purpose of making good any injury to any property of the

said corporation caused by said fire, or for the purpose of

paying any deficiency arising from a failure because of said

fire, to realize sufficient income from revenue and taxation to

meet the amounts provided for in the Ordinance of Estimates

for the year 1904, or for the purpose of defraying the expenses

of any special election or elections that may be held in Balti-

more City in the year 1904 pursuant to the provisions of

Section 7 of Article 11 of the Maryland State Constitution,