WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 139

CHAPTER 98.
(Senate Bill 235)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to issue certificates of indebtedness of said
corporation to an amount not exceeding Three Million
Dollars ($3,000,000.00), the proceeds of the same to be
expended for the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation
or any other legal means, of land or property, or any
rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, and constructing
and erecting on said land or property, or on any land
or property now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, new Enoch Pratt Free
Library Branch Buildings and other auxiliary facilities,
and for additions and improvements to, or the recon-
struction of, existing Enoch Pratt Free Library Build-
ings, and for the reconstruction, renovation, modern-
ization or improvement of any buildings or structures
now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore and to be used to house the functions or
activities of the Enoch Pratt Free Library System, and
for the purchase, acquisition, installation and erection
of any and all kinds of furniture and equipment for any
and all of the new facilities authorized to be constructed,
erected or acquired by the provisions hereof, and for the
purchase, acquisition, installation and erection of any
and all kinds of library or auxiliary equipment for the
Enoch Pratt Free Library System or for alterations to,
or the replacement of, any such existing equipment now
being used by, or in connection with, the Enoch Pratt
Free Library System; and for doing any and all things
necessary in connection therewith or pertaining thereto;
providing that a portion of the proceeds of said certificates
of indebtedness not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) may be used for de-
ferred maintenance, modernization and improvement of
the Main or Central Building of the Enoch Pratt Free
Library System and its facilities; and to authorize said
municipality to submit an ordinance or ordinances for
said purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore City, and
declaring this act to be an emergency law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is
hereby authorized to issue the certificates of indebtedness
of said corporation to an amount not exceeding Three
Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00), the said certificates of
indebtedness to be issued from time to time and for such