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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

Board to esti-
mate sum
necessary for
discharge of
duties.

812. It shall be the duty of the board of police
commissioners aforesaid immediately to estimate
and annually thereafter, what sum of money will be
necessary for each current fiscal year torenable them
to discharge the duty hereby imposed on them, and
they shall forthwith certify the same to the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, who are hereby re-

Police tax.

quired, without delay, specifically to assess and levy
such amount as shall be sufficient to raise the same
clear of all expenses and discounts, upon all the
assessable property in the city of Baltimore, and to
cause the same to be collected as all other city taxes,
and it is hereby made the duty of the collector of
the city of Baltimore, and he is hereby requested to
collect said tax, to be denominated the police tax,
and the said board of police commissioners, upon
and after qualifying as such, are hereby authorized
to make requisitions from, time to time, upon the
comptroller of the city of Baltimore, or other proper
disbursing officer or officers of the corporation for
such sums of money as they may from time to time
deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out the

Provisos.

objects and intentions of this act, provided, the same
shall not exceed in any one year the amount so as
aforesaid, certified or which may thereafter be certi-
fied for that year, to the mayor and city council
aforesaid, and in case the said disbursing officer or
officers shall not forthwith pay over the amount of
each requisition as made it shall be the duty of the
said board, and they are hereby authorized and

Certificates of
indebtedness.

required, to issue certificates of indebtedness, in the
name of the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
in such sum as they may deem advisable for the
amount of such requisitions respectively, bearing
interest at six per cent, per annum, payable at not
more than twelve months after date, and signed by a
majority of said board, and to raise the money on
said certificates by pledging or disposing of the
same ; which certificates shall be receivable at par
in payment of city taxes, and be as binding on said