900 ARTICLE 4.

1898, ch. 123.

38. There shall be included annually in the Ordinance of Estimates
the sum of fifty thousand dollars to be used as a contingent fund by the
Board of Estimates, in case of an emergency of necessity for the expendi-
ture of money above the appropriations regularly passed for any depart-
ment, sub-department, municipal officer not embraced in a department,
or special commission or board, in the interval between the annual appro-
priations as herein provided for. As soon as practicable after the expen-
diture of any part of said contingent fund, the said Board shall report to
the City Council all the circumstances attending said expenditure, and
the necessity for the same, and the reasons assigned by the department,
sub-department, municipal officer not embraced in a department, or special
commission or board, applying for and receiving the same. The City
Council shall not have the power to increase or decrease, or strike out,
said amount from the said ordinance of estimates.

Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 12.

1898, ch. 123.

39. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall appropriate no

money out of the Treasury of the City for the payment of any private
claim against the city, unless such claim shall have first been presented
to the Board of Estimates, together with the proofs upon which the same
is founded, and reported favorably by said Board.

Baltimore City V. Gorter, 93 Md. 12.

TAX RATE AND ANNUAL LEVY.

1914, ch. 532.

40. The Board of Estimates shall, on the first day of October, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen,
and in each succeeding year, procure from the proper municipal depart-
ment and shall send, with the said ordinance of estimates, to the City
Council, a report showing the taxable basis for the next ensuing fiscal
year, and the amount which can reasonably be expected to be realized by
taxation for said year. The report shall contain an aggregate statement
of all the moneys to be expended during the next ensuing fiscal year by
the city, as set forth in said ordinance of estimates, as well as of any other
sums, if such there be, which the city may be required to expend during
the said year for any purpose or purposes not included in the Ordinance
of Estimates, and it shall also state the total income which can reasonably
be expected to be received by the city for the next ensuing fiscal year
from licenses, fees, rents and all other charges, including the amount
believed to be collectible from taxes in arrears. The report shall show
the difference between such anticipated expenditures and receipts of the
city, and shall state a rate for the levy of taxes sufficient to realize the
amount required to meet the said difference. In the ordinance making