642 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

But said stock shall not be issued, in whole or in part, unless
an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
providing for the issuance thereof, shall be submitted to the
legal voters of the city 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, article 11, of the Constitution of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby
authorized to issue its stock to an amount not exceeding three
millions of dollars, said stock to be issued from time to time,
as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may by ordinance
prescribe, and to be issued in such amounts, and to be payable
at such time and to bear such rate of interest as the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance provide. The
proceeds of said stock are to be used for the purchase of lands
and interests therein for the extension of the park system of
Baltimore, for the acquisition and establishment of a civic
centre, or central square, or squares or district, and for the
establishment and for construction of boulevards, or parked
ways, to constitute a part of the park system of the city of
Baltimore, and to be under the jurisdiction of the Board of
Park Commissioners of Baltimore, or other boulevards or park-
ways, and for the purpose of developing and improving said
park system to such amount as the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore may by special ordinance or ordinances or by the
annual ordinance of estimates prescribe. But said stock shall
not be issued, in whole or in part, unless the ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance
thereof shall be submitted to the legal voters of the city 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, article 11 of the
Constitution of Maryland.

SEC. 2. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is hereby
authorized to delegate to the Board of Park Commissioners of
the city of Baltimore, by special ordinance or by the annual
ordinance of estimates, the power to acquire by gift, purchase,
lease, whatever the duration of the lease, or other like methods
of acquisition, or by arbitration, or by condemnation, any land,
or improvement situate wholly without or wholly or partly
within the city of Baltimore, or any interest, individual, rail-
way or other corporate franchise, right, easement or privilege
therein, which may be required for the purpose of extending
said park system establishing and constructing said boulevards