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determination in writing with reference to said protest, which determina-
tion shall be open to public inspection; and any person who has thus pro-
tested, or any other person interested in. said determination may, within
a period beginning twenty days after said first publication and ending
thirty days after said first publication, appeal in writing to a board com-
posed of the four city officials now constituting the Board of Public
Improvements, against said determination of said Sewerage Commission
with reference to said protest, and said Board so composed, within a
period beginning thirty days after said first publication and ending forty
days after said first publication, shall make its decision with reference to
said protest, which decision, as above mentioned, shall be final and bind-
ing upon said Sewerage Commission and the party or parties appealing
or protesting.

See notes to Section 824N.

1912, ch. 24, sec. 1.

824K. That for the purpose of preserving the sanitary condition of
the city, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized to borrow money temporarily up to such an amount as may
be necessary not exceeding the amount of the obligations or indebtedness
of property owners to it, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 58, ap-
proved December 28, 1911, for the purpose of providing the City Engi-
neer with the necessary funds to make the sewer connections and do the
other work which he is authorized and directed to do by said ordinance,
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized for the
purpose of borrowing such money to give its note to be signed on behalf
of the city by the Mayor, the Comptroller and the City Engineer, and to
pledge as collateral the obligations or indebtedness of property owners to
the city under said Ordinance No. 58 to an amount equal to the amount
of the loan, and to renew such note in whole or in part from time to
time, not exceeding the time of maturity of the collateral. The method
of pledging such indebtedness from the owners of property under said
Ordinance No. 58 as collateral for such loan shall be as follows:

The City Collector shall give a certificate over his hand that there is
due to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore a certain sum under
said Ordinance No. 58 from the following property owners, giving the
number of the property and the name of the owner, and the amount due
on each, and that said indebtedness is not pledged for any other loan.
Said certificate attached to and delivered with the note of the city, as
above provided, shall constitute a pledge of the indebtedness of said par-
ties to the city as collateral security for the said note, or any renewal
thereof as above provided. The City Collector shall collect said indebted-
ness, as provided in said ordinance, just as if the same were not pledged,
but shall pay over to the holder of any note given under this Act all
collections of any of the indebtedness pledged as collateral therefor, and
such holder shall credit all such payments on such note.
Gorneringer v. McAbee, 129 Md. 557.

See notes to Section 824N.