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such work, be or become a registered voter of Baltimore county,
unless such person shall have been a registered voter of said
county at the time of the passage of this Act, or shall be a
lineal descendant of some person who was at any time thereto-
fore a registered voter of the State of Maryland; any such con-
tractor, sub-contractor, superintendent, foreman or the person
or persons clothed with the power of doing the work contem-
plated by this Act or any part thereof, who shall employ any
person in violation of the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be
fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for a term not ex-
ceeding sixty days for each day that such person shall have
been so employed in contravention of the provision of this sec-
tion.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That in order to provide
money to defray the cost of carrying all or any of the purposes
of the provisions of this Act into execution, the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore is hereby authorized to issue the stock of
said corporation for a sum not exceeding five millions of dol-
lars; said stock to be issued from time to time as the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance prescribe,
and to be issued for 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; said stock
shall be sold and issued by the Commissioners of Finance of the
city of Baltimore at the best prices obtainable in their judg-
ment therefor, and any premiums derived from the sale thereof
shall remain in their hands as part of the sinking fund herein-
after mentioned for the redemption of said stock at maturity.
The residue of the money received from the sale of said stock
shall be turned over by them to the Comptroller to be by him
deposited with the City Register, and to be placed to the
credit of a fund to be known as the "Gunpowder Reservoir
Fund," which shall be exclusively applicable to the cost of
carrying the purposes and provisions of this Act into execu-
tion, and shall be chargeable with no other items of cost or ex-
pense whatsoever, and appropriation to defray said cost, based
upon the estimate of the person charged with the duty of doing
the work contemplated by this Act shall be annually included
by the Board of Estimates in the usual way in the ordinance of
estimates, 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 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 ma-