EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the present park system of the city of Baltimore, and for
the development and improvement for park purposes of the
lands over which it shall be so extended, in such manner
as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by
ordinance prescribe; to authorize the submission of an
ordinance to that end to the legal voters of said city; to
empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
acquire in the modes prescribed by said Act within the
city of Baltimore, and Baltimore, Howard and Anne
Arundel Counties, such lands or properties as may be
necessary for the purposes of such extension; to develop
and improve the same for park purposes, without regard
to the provisions of Section 840 of Article 4, entitled
" City of Baltimore," of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, or any amendments thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be
and it is hereby authorized to issue its stock to an amount

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not exceeding one million dollars; said stock to be issued
from time to time as the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore shall by ordinance prescribe, and to be issued for
such amounts, and to be payable at such time, and to bear
such rate of interest as the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall by ordinance provide; and the proceeds
thereof to be used for the extension of the present park
system of the city of Baltimore, and for the development
and improvement for park purposes of the lands over which
it shall be so extended in such manner as the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall by special ordinance or ordi-
nances or by the annual ordinance of estimates prescribe ;
but said stock shall not be issued in whole or in part unless
the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
providing for the issuance thereof shall be submitted to the
legal voters of the city of Baltimore at such time and place
as may be fixed by said ordinance 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 Constitution of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, acting by and through the agency of
the board of park commissioners, may acquire by gift, pur-

Stock to be
issued.