640 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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
Assembly of Maryland, enacted during the session of the year
1892, but said stock shall not be issued in whole or in part
unless the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more providing for the issuance shall be submitted to the legal
voters of Baltimore at such time and place as may be fixed by
said ordinance, and be approved by a majority of the votes cast
at such time and place as required by section 7 of article 11
of the Constitution of Maryland.

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

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 169.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 7 of
the Acts of 1904, chapter 274, entitled "An Act to authorize
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to issue its certifi-
cate of stock to an amount not exceeding two million dollars,
for the purpose of providing the money to pay costs and
expenses of condemning, opening, grading, paving and curb-
ing the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys of the Annex por-
tion of Baltimore city, and to authorize the appointment of a
commission, to be known as the 'Annex Improvement Com-
mission,' and to define the duties of said commission," so as
to require contracts made by the said commission to be
awarded through the Board of Awards, in accordance with
sections 14 and 15 of the Charter of Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 7 of the Acts of 1904, chapter 274, entitled
"An Act to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to issue its certificate of stock to an amount not exceeding two
million dollars, for the purpose of providing the money to pay
the costs and expenses of condemning, opening, grading, paving
and curbing the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys of the Annex
portion of Baltimore city; and to authorize the appointment of
a commission, to be known as the 'Annex Improvement Com-
mission,' and to define the duties of said commission," be and
the same hereby is repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

7. That said commission is hereby authorized and empowered
to contract, subject to the provisions of sections 14 and 15 of