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corporation, for such sums of money as he may from time to time deem
necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objects and intentions of
this subdivision of this Article; provided, the same shall not exceed in
any one year the amount so as aforesaid certified, or which may thereafter
be certified for that year, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
aforesaid; and in case the said disbursing officer shall not forthwith pay
over the amount of each requisition as made, it shall be the duty of the
said Commissioner, and he is authorized and required to' issue certificates
of indebtedness, in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
in such sum as he may deem advisable for the amount of such requisitions,
respectively, bearing interest at six per cent, per annum, payable at not
more than twelve months after date, and signed by the said Commissioner,
and to raise the money on said certificates by pledging or disposing of
the same, which certificates shall be receivable at par in payment of city
taxes, and be as binding on said corporation and as recoverable against it
as if the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore had themselves issued the
same; and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have no power

or authority to levy or collect any tax or appropriate any money for the
payment of any police force other than that organized and employed under
this subdivision of this Article; and no officer or other employee of the
said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall disburse any money
therefor; and the power of said Mayor and City .Council to levy and
collect taxes and appropriate and disburse money for the payment of the
police force organized and employed under this subdivision of this Article
shall be exercised as herein directed, and not otherwise; and in case the
amount so as aforesaid to be estimated by the said Commissioner shall
from any cause prove insufficient for the necessary expenses for the current
year, the said Commissioner is authorized and empowered to issue certifi-
cates and raise money therefrom, as hereinbefore provided, to meet the
said exigency; provided, however, that no additional issue shall exceed
the sum of fifty thousand dollars in any one year, and that the amount
thereof shall be added to the estimate, assessment and levy for the year
next ensuing, and that the said certificates shall not be made payable at
an earlier day than twelve months from the date of their issue, but may
be receivable in payment of city taxes a.t any time they may be so pre-
sented.

Mayor, &c., v. Poultney & Trimble, 25 Md. 18.

Mandamus held to be unnecessary to compel the city to assess and levy the
amount required by the Police Department, as the Police Board has the authority
to make requests from time to time upon the City Comptroller for their needs.
(Construed in connection with section 36 of the Charter.) McEvoy v. Baltimore,
126 Md. 111.

The Board of Police Commissioners are not subject to the provisions of sections
14, 15 and 36B of the Charter. Thrift v. Ammidon, 126 Md. 126.

1918, ch. 223. 1922, ch. 507.

747A. It shall be the duty of the Police Commissioner to advertise at
least three times in not more than three daily newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore during the month of October, 1922, and in the