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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 149.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount not
exceeding four million dollars, for increasing the number of
public parks, by the purchase of Clifton or other parks; for
an extension and enlargement of the water supply of the
city of Baltimore, and for laying additional water mains
therein, and for such other purposes, as in the judgment of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore will add to the
efficiency of the water supply of Baltimore; and for fur-
nishing additional means for constructing the new Court
House.

May .issue
bonds

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 stock of the city of
Baltimore, for a sum not exceeding four million dollars, said
stock to be issued from time to time as the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance prescribe, the proceeds
of said stock to be issued for the following purposes, or for
such one or more of them as the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore may prescribe, viz : for increasing the number of
public parks, by the purchase of Clifton or other parks; pro-
vided, the whole amount expended under this act and the ordi-
nances passed in pursuance thereof, for the purchase of addi-
tional parks, shall not exceed one million dollars, and that the
payment of the bonds issued therefor, and of the interest thereon,
shall be primarily a charge upon the park tax received from
the street railways, although the entire credit of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall be pledged to the holders of
said bonds for the payment of said bonds and of the interest
thereon; for an extension and enlargement of the water supply
of the city of Baltimore and for laying additional water mains
therein, and for such other purposes as in the judgment of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore will add to the effi-
ciency of the water supply of Baltimore; provided, that the
amount to be expended under this act, and the ordinances
passed in pursuance thereof, for an extension and enlargement
of the water supply of the city of Baltimore, and for laying
additional water mains therein, and for such other purposes as
in the judgment of the Mayor and City Council will add to
the efficiency of the water supply of Baltimore, shall not