1252 ARTICLE 4.

of dollars; said stock to be issued from time to time as the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance prescribe; the proceeds of
said stock to be used for the opening, widening, paving and repaving of
streets, the constructing of sewers, the supplying of school buildings in
the City of Baltimore, and the improvement of the public parks. The
said stock shall be in such amounts, payable at such time or times, and
shall bear such rate of interest as the said Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall provide by ordinance; but the said stock shall not be
issued unless the ordinance which the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more is hereby 'authorized to enact shall be approved by a majority of the
votes of the legal voters of said city, cast at the time and place to be ap-
pointed by said ordinance in the provision for submitting the same to the
legal voters of said city, as required by Section Y of Article XI, of the
Constitution of the State.

NEW SEWERAGE SYSTEM.

1901, ch. 19. 1904, ch. 349, sec. 1.

824A. The Mayor of the City of Baltimore is hereby authorized to
appoint in the manner prescribed by Section 25 of Article 4, entitled
"City of Baltimore," of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, and subject
to the condition that three appointees shall be members of the minority
party within the meaning of Section 30 of said Article, six capable and
upright citizens of the City of Baltimore, who, together with the Mayor
himself ex officio, shall constitute a special commission to be known as the
Sewerage Commission* of the City of Baltimore, and who shall continue
in office from year to year until the work of said commission under this
Act has been fully and finally completed in every respect. If, however,
the Second Branch of the City Council of the City of Baltimore shall
reject three several and successive nominations by the Mayor to any posi-
tion on said commission, he shall be empowered to make an appointment
thereto without its confirmation. No municipal official or other officer of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, whether holding a paid or an
unpaid office or position under the said corporation shall be eligible for
appointment to said commission, and all persons appointed to said com-
mission shall qualify and be subject to removal by the Mayor, except that
there shall be no removal at any time save for cause after charges pre-
ferred, as prescribed by said Section 25 of Article 4, entitled "City of
Baltimore," of the Public Local Laws of Maryland. Any member of said
commission may at any time resign therefrom by tendering his resignation
in writing to the Mayor, and any vacancy in said commission occasioned
by the resignation, removal, death or permanent absence from this State
of the incumbent, or by supervening incapacity upon his part, whether
physical or mental, to discharge his duties, or by any other cause oper-

*The Sewerage Commission was abolished by chapter 1 of the Acts of 1916, and
its duties, powers, etc., transferred to sub-department of sewers. See note to Sec-
tion 824N.