1778 PUBLIC WORKS——BOARD OF. [ART. 78A

security thereof; and all money received from the sale of the securities
mentioned in this section and in section 13, or any of them shall be
applied by the treasurer to the payment of the State debt, or to the pur-
chase of safe securities for the sinking fund of said State debt.

1904, art. 78 A, sec. 12. 1898, ch. 378, sec. 2.

12. The said board of public works is authorized and empowered to
do and perform any and all acts, matters and things, and to execute
and deliver any and all contracts, deeds or paper writings whatsoever,
in order to effectually transfer, assign and convey said annuity and the
mortgage security therefor, together with all and every, the rights, inci-
dents, interests and estate of the State of Maryland therein, unto the
purchaser or purchasers thereof, and generally to do any and all acts,
matters and things whatsoever to carry out and effectuate the purposes
of sections 11 and 13.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1898, ch. 378, sec. 3.

13. The said board of public works is further authorized and
empowered to sell, transfer, assign and convey, in the manner set forth
in sections 11 and 12 of this article, all the right and interest of the State
of Maryland in or to the capital stock of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Company, at the discretion of the said board of public works,
at such price and for cash or State bonds as said board may determine,
and said mortgage and annuity shall remain exempt from State, county
and municipal taxation in the hands of the purchaser or purchasers, or
his or their assigns, as if the same were still held and owned by the State
of Maryland.*

*By the act of 1906, ch. 748, the board of public works was directed to give a
notice to quit at the expiration of his tenancy to Henry Williams and his assignee,
lessee of the wharf belonging to the state located in Baltimore city on Light street
opposite the state tobacco warehouse No. 3-A. The act further directed the chief
tobacco inspector to assume control of the wharf at the expiration of said
tenancy and to report to the board of public works as to whether it would be
advantageous for him to continue in control thereof, or for the board of public
works to rent the same. The board of public works was authorized to rent the
wharf if they thought wise.

By the act of 1904, ch. 426, the board of public works was authorized to
collect the insurance upon state tobacco warehouses Nos. 1 and 2 destroyed
by fire, and to either rebuild a modern warehouse on the old site and adjacent
property, or to sell or lease the same and build a new tobacco warehouse in some
other locality. The act of 1906. ch. 804, repealing and re-enacting the act of
1904, ch. 426. having been declared unconstitutional—see Christmas v. Warfield,
105 Md. 539—the act of 1908, ch. 75, was passed providing for the erection of a
new state tobacco warehouse upon one or more of the sites of the existing
warehouses, and for repairing the old warehouses. The act of 1908 further
provided for a tobacco warehouse building commission; for the details incident
to the construction of the new warehouse, and for an appropriation therefor.
Section 1 of the act of 1908, ch. 75, was amended and re-enacted by the act of
190$. ch. 231. and an additional appropriation made.

The act of 1930, ch. 250 (p. 234), provides for a loan of six hundred thousand
dollars, to be known as the Insane Hospital Loan, to be used for the erection of