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Fuller syndicate, for the purpose of erecting in the city of
Baltimore a suitable memorial to the memory of John Mifflin
Hood, be and the same is hereby fully ratified and confirmed
and authorized, to the end that said ordinance may in all re-
spects become as completely effective as if the matter thereof
had been enacted directly by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, or had been ordained by an ordinance of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore passed pursuant to an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland expressly authorizing the pas-
sage and approval thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 21, 1908.

CHAPTER 165.

AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount not
exceeding one million dollars for the purpose of providing
extensions to the underground conduits and their appurte-
nances, including distributing poles, built under the direc-
tion of the Electrical Commission, in the city of Baltimore,
and to authorize the submission of an ordinance for that
purpose to the legal voters of said city; said extensions to be
made in accordance with the authority vested in said Elec-
trical Commission by ordinances Nos. 106, 107 and 108 of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved August 25,
1898, and all amendments thereof or supplements thereto
passed by virtue of the provisions of chapter 200 of the Acts
of the General Assembly, enacted during the session of the
year 1892.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it
is hereby authorized to issue its stock to an amount not exceed-
ing one million dollars; said stock to be issued from time to
time as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall, by
ordinance, provide, and to be issued for such amounts, and to
be payable at such times, and to bear such rate of interest as
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall, by ordinance,
provide; and the proceeds thereof to be used for the purpose of
providing extensions to the underground conduits and their
appurtenances, including distributing poles built under the
direction of the Electrical Commission in said city; said exten-
sions to be in accordance with the authority vested in said
Electrical Commission by ordinances Nos. 106, 107 and 108 of