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clothed with the power of doing the work contemplated by this Act as
aforesaid, shall at any time during the progress of said work employ
thereon, or permit or allow to be employed thereon, any person who is
at the time of such employment, or who shall at any time thereafter and
during the progress of such work, be or become a registered voter of Bal-
timore County, unless such person shall have been a registered voter of
said county at the time of the passage of this Act, or shall be a lineal
descendant of some person who was at any time theretofore a registered
voter of the State of Maryland; any such contractor, sub-contractor, super-
intendent, foreman or the person or persons clothed with the power of
doing the work contemplated by this Act or any part thereof, who shall
employ any person in violation of the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a
sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding sixty days for each day that
such person shall have been so employed in contravention of the provision
of this section.

1908, ch. 214, ch. 16.

826Q. That in order to provide money to defray the cost of carrying
all or any of the purposes of the provisions of this Act into execution, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized to issue the
stock of said corporation for a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars;
said stock to be issued from time to time as the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall by ordinance prescribe, and to be issued for such
amounts, and to be payable at such time and to bear such rate of interest
as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance provide;
said stock shall be sold and issued by the Commissioners of Finance of
the City of Baltimore at the best prices obtainable in their judgment there-
for, and any premiums derived from the sale thereof shall remain in their
hands as part of the sinking fund hereinafter mentioned for the redemp-
tion of said stock at maturity. The residue of the money received from
the sale of said stock shall be turned over by them to the Comptroller to
be by him deposited with the City Register, and to be placed to the credit
of a fund to be known as the "Gunpowder Reservoir Fund," which shall
be exclusively applicable to the cost of carrying the purposes and provi-
sions of this Act into execution, and shall be chargeable with no other items
of cost or expense whatsoever, and appropriation to defray said coat, based
upon the estimate of the person charged with the duty of doing the work
contemplated by this Act shall be annually included by the Board of Esti-
mates in the usual way in the Ordinance of Estimates, but said stock shall
not be issued in whole or in part unless the ordinance of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof, shall be sub-
mitted to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore at such time and place
as may be fixed by said ordinance and approved by a majority of votes
cast at such time and place as required by Section 7 of Article 11 of the
Constitution of Maryland; if issued pursuant to such approval, the Mayor
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