894 ARTICLE 4.

estimates so made to said Board shall be perjury. The said estimates,
shall specify, in detail, the objects thereof, and the items required for the
expenses of the City Council and the respective departments, sub-depart-
ments, municipal officers not embraced in a department and special com-
missioners or boards, as aforesaid, including a statement of each of the
salaries of the members of the City Council and its officers and clerks,
and the salaries of the deputies, assistants, clerks, employees and subor-
dinates in each department, sub-department, municipal office or special
commission or board.

Second, a list containing all amounts to be appropriated -by the City
Council for NEW IMPROVEMENTS to be constructed by any department of"
the city during the next ensuing fiscal year; said list to be known as the
"ESTIMATES FOE NEW IMPBOVEMENTS." Heads of departments, heads-
of sub-departments, municipal officers not embraced in a department, and
special commissioners or boards shall in writing, thirty days before the
time required to make such list by said Board, file with said Board their-
recommeiidations as to the amounts which they may consider will be
needed in their respective departments for new improvements during the-
next ensuing fiscal year.

Third, a list containing all amounts which by previous laws, ordinances
or contracts are required to be ANNUALLY APPROPRIATED to charities,
educational, benevolent or reformatory institutions by the city, as well
as all other sums, if any, which may be required by laws or ordinances.
to be appropriated for other purposes not embraced in the preceding lists.
This list shall be known as the "ESTIMATES FOB ANNUAL APPEOPBIA-
TIONS." The purpose and object of this provision is that said three lists
shall embrace all moneys to be expended for the next ensuing fiscal year
for all purposes by the city. After said three lists have been prepared,
the Board of Estimates, shall cause to be prepared a draft of an ordinance
to be submitted to the City Council providing appropriations sufficient
to meet the amounts called for by said three lists, and the said Board
shall cause a copy of said proposed ordinance, certified by the signatures
of a majority of them, to be forthwith published in two daily newspapers
in Baltimore City, for two successive days, and shall, immediately after
said publication, transmit a copy of the draft of the said proposed ordi-
nance to the President of the City Council, whereupon a special meeting
of the City Council shall be forthwith called by the Mayor to consider
such proposed ordinance. It shall be the duty of the City Council, when
so assembled, to consider and investigate the estimates contained in said
proposed ordinance, and to hold daily sessions for its consideration until
said ordinance is passed. The City Council, by a majority vote of all the
members elected thereto, may reduce the said amounts fixed by the said
Board in said proposed ordinance, except such items thereof as are now
or may hereafter be fixed by law, and except such items as may be inserted
by said Board to pay State taxes, and to pay the interest and principal of
the municipal debt. The City Council shall not have the power to increase