554 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

City of Baltimore, and the improvement of the public parks.
The said stock shall be in such amounts, payable at such time or
times, and shall bear such rate of interest as the said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall provide by ordinance; but the
said stock shall not be issued unless the ordinance which the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized to
enact shall be approved by a majority of the votes of the legal
voters of said City, cast at the time and place to be appointed
by said ordinance in the provision for submitting the same to the
legal voters of said City, as required by section 7 of Article XI
of the Constitution of the State.

SHERIFF'S FEES.

825. The Sheriff of Baltimore City shall hereafter receive
for the services hereinafter recited, fees as follows:

For serving an attachment of contempt and return, one dollar
and fifty cents.

For an arrest on warrant and return in criminal cases, one
dollar.

STOCKS, LOANS AND FINANCE.

826. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are author-
ized and empowered to endorse the bonds of the Baltimore
and Eastern Shore Railroad Company, to the extent of ten
thousand dollars per mile of said railroad, as the same is com-
pleted ; provided, that no such endorsement shall be made until
an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, au-
thorizing and directing the same, and the terms and conditions,
and mode and manner of making said endorsement shall have
been submitted to the legal and qualified voters of the City of
Baltimore, at such time and place as may be fixed by said ordi-
nance, to be approved by a majority of votes cast at such time
and place; provided further, that the aggregate amount of such
endorsements shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thou-
sand dollars, and that the bonds so endorsed shall be secured by
first mortgage on the property and franchises of said Baltimore