290 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

named, and for no other purpose or uses whatever. The
City Council shall not have the power, by any other or
subsequent ordinance or resolution, to enlarge any item con-
tained in said ordinance after the same is duly passed. Nor
shall the City Council, by any subsequent ordinance or other-
wise, appropriate any sums of money to be used for the
next ensuing fiscal year, for any of the purposes embraced in
said ordinance of estimates. No appropriation provided
for in said ordinance shall be diverted or used under any cir-
cumstances, for any other purpose than that named in said ordi-
nance, nor shall the Comptroller draw any warrant for any of
the items in said ordinance of estimates, unless he has received
said amounts, and they are actually to the credit of the City
Council and such department, sub-department, officers, com-
missions or boards. No temporary loan shall be authorized
or made to pay any deficiency arising from a failure to realize
sufficient income from revenue and taxation to meet the
amounts provided for in said ordinance of estimates, but the
City may temporarily borrow money for its use in anticipation
of the receipts of taxes levied for any year. In case of any
such deficiency, there shall be a pro rata abatement of all ap-
propriations, except those for the payment of State taxes and
the principal and interest of the City debt, and such amounts
as are fixed by law and contained in said ordinance, and in case
of any surplus arising in any fiscal year, by reason of an excess
of income received from the estimated revenue over the ex-
penditures for such year, the said surplus shall be passed to the
Commissioners of Finance to be credited to the general sink-
ing fund. Until the organization of the said Board of Esti-
mates by the Mayor first elected under the provisions of this
Article, as provided in section 25 of said Article, the Mayor,
Comptroller, City Register and City Solicitor shall compose a
Board to perform all the duties required of the Board of Esti-
mates by the provisions of this Article.

37. Before any grant shall be made by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore of the franchise or right to use
any street, avenue, alley or highway or the grant of the fran-
chise or right for the use of any public property mentioned in
section 7 of this Article, the proposed specific grant shall be