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institutions by the City, as well as all other sums, if any, which
may be required by laws or ordinances to be appropriated for
other purposes, not embraced in the preceding lists. This list
shall be known as the "Estimates for Annual Appropriations."
The purpose and object of this provision is, that said three lists
shall embrace all moneys to be expended for the next ensuing
fiscal year for all purposes, by the City. After said three lists
have been prepared, the Board of Estimates shall cause to be
prepared a draft of an ordinance, to be submitted to the City
Council, providing appropriations sufficient to meet the
amounts called for by said three lists; and the said Board shall
cause a copy of said proposed ordinance, certified by the signa-
tures of a majority of them, to be forthwith published in two
daily newspapers in Baltimore City, for two successive days,
and shall, immediately after said publication, transmit a copy
of the draft of the said proposed ordinance to the President of
each Branch of the City Council, whereupon a special meeting
of the City Council shall be forthwith called by the Mayor,
to consider such proposed ordinance. It shall be the duty of
the two Branches of the City Council, when so assembled, to
consider and investigate the estimates contained in said pro-
posed ordinance, and to hold daily sessions for its consid-
eration until said ordinance is passed. The two Branches
of the City Council, by a majority vote of all the mem-
bers elected to each Branch, may reduce the said amounts
fixed by the said Board in said proposed ordinance, except
such items thereof as are now or may hereafter be fixed by law,
and except such items as may be inserted by said Board to pay
State taxes, and to pay the interest and principal of the muni-
cipal debt. The City Council shall not have the power to in-
crease the amounts fixed by the Board, nor insert any new
items in the proposed ordinance. When said proposed ordi-
nance, embracing said estimates, shall have been duly passed by
both Branches of the City Council and approved by the Mayor,
it shall be known as the "Ordinance of Estimates for the Year

," and said several sums shall be and become appropri-
ated, after the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year, for the
several purposes therein named, to be used by the City Council,
departments, sub-departments, municipal officers not embraced
in a department, and special commissions or boards therein

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