140 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 98

amounts, and payable at such periods, and to bear such
rate or rates of interest, all as the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall by ordinance or ordinances from time
to time provide; but said certificates of indebtedness shall
not be issued in whole or in part unless an ordinance or
ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
providing for the issuance thereof shall be submitted to
the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time and place
as may be fixed by said ordinance or ordinances and be
approved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and
place as required by Section 7 of Article 11 of the Constitu-
tion of Maryland; and the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, in submitting any ordinance or ordinances for
the issuance of said certificates of indebtedness, or any
part thereof, to the legal voters of Baltimore City, may
submit and resubmit the same at any municipal election
as well as at any general election to be held in Baltimore
City, including the municipal election to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1947.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds
of said certificates of indebtedness hereby authorized to
be issued, not exceeding the par value thereof, shall be
used for the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation or any
other legal means, of land or property, or any rights there-
in, 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 build-
ings and other auxiliary facilities, and for additions and
improvements to, or the reconstruction of, existing Enoch
Pratt Free Library buildings, and for the reconstruction,
renovation, modernization or improvement of any build-
ings 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 con-
structed, 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 altera-
tions to, or the replacement of, any such existing equip-
ment 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. Provided, further, that a portion of the proceeds
of said certificates of indebtedness not exceeding Two