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requisition of the Commission or of its president the Comptroller shall
draw his warrant upon the City Register, payable out of such appropria-
tions from said special fund for the amount of all items of cost or expense
properly chargeable upon said special fund; 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 submitted
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore at such time and place as may
be fixed by said ordinance, and be approved by a majority of the 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
and City Council of Baltimore shall levy in each and every year upon all
property liable to taxation in the City of Baltimore a sum sufficient to pay
the interest accruing on said stock and create a sinking fund sufficient,
with the aid of any premiums on the sale thereof, to redeem said stock
at its maturity.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 8.

841R. That while the work authorized by this Act is being done by
said Commission, no rights or powers now or hereafter possessed by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or any department, sub-department
or official thereof, shall be abrogated, abridged or in anywise altered by
the provisions hereof, except in so far as the exercise of the same in the
annex portion of the city may be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act; and said Commission is herebv authorized, as its work progresses, to
turn over from time to time, in its discretion, such complete portion of
said work as it may see fit to the proper city officials, including themselves
in their ordinary capacity as Commissioners for Opening Streets, and
upon determination of said work to turn over records, writings, maps,
surveys, reports and papers, and all property and effects in their posses-
sion to themselves in their ordinary capacity as Commissioners for Open-
ing Streets, to be by them preserved, used or disposed of as may be lawful
and proper. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall prescribe
by ordinance the methods and proceedings for the sewerage and drainage
of said annex, and to provide the costs and expenses of the same ont of
any fund, funds, now or hereafter available for that purpose.

1910, ch. 736, sec. 9

841S. That Ordinance No. 151 of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, approved June 15, 1906, entitled "An Ordinance granting
the Commissioners for Opening Streets further powers and duties in the
matter of grading, paving and curbing streets, avenues, lanes and alleys
or parts thereof in the annex, in addition to the powers and duties ex-
pressly conferred and imposed upon them by the provisions of Chapter
274, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland for the year 1904,"
nd Ordinance 216 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved
March 6, 1905, is hereby continued with like force and effect as if the
same had been ordained after the passage of this Act, and after approval