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appropriations as herein provided for. As soon as practicable
after the expenditure of any part of said contingent fund, the
said Board shall report to the City Council all the circum-
stances attending said expenditure, and the necessity for the
same, and the reasons assigned by the department, sub-
department, municipal officer not embraced in a depart-
ment, or special commission or board, applying for and
receiving the same. The City Council shall not have the power
to increase or decrease, or strike out, said amount from the
said ordinance of estimates.

39. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall appro-
priate no money out of the Treasury of the City for the payment
of any private claim against the City, unless such claim shall
have first been presented to the Board of Estimates, together
with the proofs upon which the same is founded, and reported
favorably by said Board.

40.The Board of Estimates shall, on the first day of Oc-
tober, or as soon thereafter as practicable, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight and in each succeeding year, pro-
cure from the proper municipal department and shall send,
with the said ordinance of estimates, to both Branches of the
City Council, a report showing the taxable basis for the next
ensuing fiscal year, and the amount which can reasonably be
expected to be realized by taxation for said year. The report
shall contain an aggregate statement of all the moneys to be
expended during the next ensuing fiscal year by the City, as
set forth in said ordinance of estimates, as well as of any other
sums, if such there be, which the City may be required to ex-
pend during the said year for any purpose or purposes not in-
cluded in the ordinance of estimates, and it shall also state the
total income which can reasonably be expected to be received
by the City for the next ensuing fiscal year, from licenses, fees,
rents and all other charges, including the amount believed to
be collectible from taxes in arrears. The report shall show the
difference between such anticipated expenditures and receipts
of the City, and shall state a rate for the levy of taxes sufficient
to realize the amount required to meet the said difference. In
the ordinance making the annual levy of taxes, which ordi-