526 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

747. It shall be their duty to estimate annually what sum
of money will be necessary for each current fiscal year to enable
them to discharge the duty imposed on them, and they shall
forthwith certify the same to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, who are required, without delay, specifically to
assess and levy such amount as shall be sufficient to raise the
same clear of all expenses and discounts upon all the assessable
property in the City of Baltimore, and to cause the same to be
collected as all other City taxes; and it is made the duty of the
City Collector of Baltimore, and he is required to collect
said tax, to be denominated the police tax; and the said Board
of Police Commissioners, upon and after qualifying as such,
are authorized to make requisitions from time to time upon the
Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, or other proper dis-
bursing officer of the corporation, for such sums of money as
they may from time to time deem necessary for the purpose
of carrying out the objects and intentions of this sub-division of
this Article; provided, the same shall not exceed in any one
year the amount so as aforesaid certified, or which may there-
after be certified for that year, to the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore aforesaid; and in case the said disbursing officer
shall not forthwith pay over the amount of each requisi-
tion as made, it shall be the duty of the said Board, and they
are authorized and required to issue certificates of indebtedness,
in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in
such sum as they may deem advisable for the amount of such
requisitions, respectively, bearing interest at six per cent, per
annum, payable at not more than twelve months after date,
and signed by a majority of said Board, and to raise the money
on said certificates by pledging or disposing of the same; which
certificates shall be receivable at par in payment of City
taxes, and be as binding on said corporation and as recov-
erable against it as if the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more had themselves issued the same; and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall have no power or authority to levy
or collect any tax or appropriate any money for the payment of
any police force other than that organized and employed under
this sub-division of this Article; and no officer or other em-