BALTIMORE CITY. 893
1910, ch. 512.

35A. That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is
hereby directed to pay all monthly salaries to all officials or employees
whose salaries are paid by or through the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, one-half on the first and one-half on the fifteenth day of each
month, unless otherwise provided by ordinances.

BOARD OF ESTIMATES—ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES.

1904, ch. 677.

36. The Board of Estimates shall be the head of the third sub-depart-
ment of finance, and shall consist of the Mayor, City Solicitor, Comp-
troller, President of the City Council and President* of the Board of
Public Improvements. The first meeting of said Board in every year
shall be called by notice from the Mayor or President of the City Council
personally served upon members of the said Board. Subsequent meet-
ings shall be called as the said Board may direct. The President of the
City Council shall be President of said Board, and one of the number
shall act as secretary, and said Board may employ such clerks as may be
necessary to discharge its duties; their number and compensation shall be
fixed by ordinance. The said Board shall have power at any time to
summon before it the heads of the departments and sub-departments and
all municipal officers and special commissions or boards. The said Board
shall annually, between the first day of October and the first day of
November, meet, and by an affirmative vote of a majority of all the mem-
bers make out the following three lists of moneys to be appropriated by
the City Council for the next ensuing fiscal year:

First, a list to be known as the "DEPARTMENTAL ESTIMATES" of the
amounts estimated to be required to pay the expenses of conducting the
public business for the next ensuing fiscal year, including the expendi-
tures for the City Council for the salaries of its members, officers, and
expenses; said list shall be prepared in such detail as to the aggregate
sum and the items thereof allowed to the City Council, each department,
sub-department, municipal officers not embraced in a department and
special commissioners and boards as the said Board shall deem advisable.
In order to enable said Board to make such list, the President of the City
Council, the heads of the departments, heads of sub-departments, munic-
ipal officers not embraced in a department, and special commissioners or
boards shall, at least thirty days before the said list is hereby required
to be made, send to the said Board in writing, estimates of the amounts
needed for the conduct, respectively, of the Citv Council, departments,
sub-departments, municipal officers not embraced in a department, com-
missioners or boards for the next ensuing fiscal year. Such estimates
shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of persons making them, and
a wilfully false statement made in a material matter contained in said

*The Chief Engineer is now a member of the Board of Estimates in place of the.
Highways Engineer. See Sec. 85A.