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certificates of indebtedness of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
to the amount of one million dollars, in the form prescribed by law for
such, certificates, redeemable in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred
and thirty-eight, and bearing interest, payable quarterly, at the rate of
five per cent, per annum. To pass an ordinance providing for the said
transfer and surrender, of said city stock or certificates of indebtedness,
in which the educational fund derived under the will of John McDonogh,
is now invested, and for the issue and delivery to the Trustees of the
McDonogh Educational Fund and Institute, in consideration of such
transfer of said city stock or certificates of indebtedness of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, to the amount of one million dollars.
Before the ordinance which the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is
authorized and empowered to pass, shall take effect, it shall be approved
by a majority of the votes of the legal voters of the said city, cast at the
time and place to be appointed by said ordinance for submitting the same
to the legal voters of said city, as required by section 7 of Artivle XI,
of the Constitution of Maryland. To appropriate annually for the Balti-
more Manual Labor School for Indigent Boys, sum or sums of money not
exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Upon transfer and sur-
render to it, by the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, of six
per cent, city stock, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand
dollars, to issue and deliver to the said Peabody Institute, in considera-
tion of such transfer and surrender, city stock in the form prescribed
for such certificates by the Baltimore City Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-nine, redeemable in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
fifty, and bearing interest at the rate of not more than five per cent, per
annum, payable quarterly; and to pass an ordinance providing for such
transfer of said stock, and for the issue and delivery to the said Peabody
Institute, in consideration of such transfer and surrender of stock or
certificates of indebtedness of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
to the amount of not over five hundred thousand dollars, as authorized
above, bearing interest at not more than five per cent, per annum, payable
quarterly.

TEXT BOOK UPON CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

1898, ch. 520.

816A. The State Board of Education and the Board of Public School
Commissioners of Baltimore City are hereby required to furnish the
public schools of this State with a textbook upon civil government in
addition to the text-books now furnished them, and shall be included in
the branches of study now taught in the public schools, and shall be
taught to and be studied by all pupils whose capacity will admit of it,
in all departments of the public schools of this State and in all educa-
tional institutions supported wholly or in part by money from the State.
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