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year upon all property liable to taxation in the City of Balti-
more a sum sufficient to pay the interest accruing on said stock
and create a sinking fund sufficient, with the aid of any pre-
miums on the sale thereof, to redeem said stock at its maturity.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That while the work
authorized by this Act is being done by said commission, no
rights or powers now for hereafter possessed by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or any department, sub-department
or official thereof, shall be abrogated, abridged or in anywise
altered by the provisions hereof, except in so far as the exercise
of the same in the annex portion of the city may be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act; and said commission iii hereby
authorized, as its work progresses, to turn over from time to
time, in its discretion, such complete portion of said work as
it may see fit to the proper city officials, including themselves
in their ordinary capacity as Commissioners for Opening
Streets, and upon determination of said work to turn over
records, writings, maps, surveys, reports and papers, and all
property and effects in their possession to themselves in their
ordinary capacity as Commissioners for Opening Streets, to
be by them preserved, used or disposed of as may be lawful and
proper. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall pre-
scribe by ordinance, the methods and proceedings for the sewer-
age and drainage of said annex, and to provide the costs and ex-
penses of the same out of any fund, funds, now or hereafter
available for that purpose.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That Ordinance No. 151 of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved June 15,
1906, entitled "An Ordinance granting the Commissioners for
Opening Streets further powers and duties in the matter of
grading, paving and curbing street, avenues, lanes and alleys
or parts thereof in the annex, in addition to the powers and
duties expressly conferred and imposed upon them by the
provisions of Chapter 274, of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland for the year 1904," and Ordinance 216 of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved March 6, 1905,
is hereby continued with like force and effect as if the same
had been ordained after the passage of this Act, and after
approval by the people of the loan hereby authorized and the
right and powers by said ordinance conferred and the pro-
visions thereof and the procedure therein prescribed may be
availed of by the commission hereby created to the same extent
as if said commission were expressly named in said ordinance,
but said ordinance shall be subect to repeal, modification or
amendment by the Mayor and City. Council of Baltimore as
other municipal ordinances.