FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 138.

AN ACT to authorize the mayor and city council of Balti-

more to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount

not exceeding six millions of dollars for building a court

house and securing the necessary ground therefor ; for

the opening, widening, repairing and paving of streets ;

the construction of sewers and bridges ; the supplying of

school buildings; the laying of conduits for telegraph and

other wires : the preparation of topographical maps : and

for other permanent public improvements, and to authorize

the submission of all ordinances for that purpose to the

legal voters of said city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the mayor and city council of Baltimore

be and they are hereby authorized to issue the stock of the

city of Baltimore to an amount not exceeding six millions

City stock—
for what

of dollars, the proceeds thereof to be used for the building

purposes

of a court house, and securing the necessary ground there

and how to

be issued.

for ; for the opening, widening, repairing and paving of

streets; the construction of sewers and bridges; the supply-

ing of school buifdings ; the laying of conduits for telegraph

and other wires; the preparation of topographical maps,

and for other permanent public improvements ; said stock

shall be issued from time to time in such amounts, payable

at such time or times, and shall bear such rate of interest

as the said mayor and city council of Baltimore shall pro-

vide by ordinance ; but the said stock shall not be issued

unless the ordinance which the mayor and city council of

Baltimore are hereby authorized to enact, shall be approved

by a majority of the votes of the legal voters of said city,

cast at the time and place to be appointed by said ordinance

in a provision tor submitting the same to the legal voters of

said city, as required by section 7, article 11, of the consti-

tution of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Effective

Approved March 15th, 1892.