1190 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 585

Section 7 of Article 11 of the Constitution of Maryland. If
issued pursuant to such approval, the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall levy in each and every year upon all prop-
erty liable to taxation in the City of Baltimore a sum sufficient
to pay the interest accruing on said stock and create a sinking
fund sufficient, with the aid of any premiums on the sale
thereof, to redeem said stock at its maturity.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That while the work au-
thorized by this Act is being done by said Commission, no
rights or powers now or 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 exer-
cise of the same in the annex portion of the city may be in-
consistent with the provisions of this Act; and said Commis-
sion is hereby authorized, as its work progresses, to turn over
from time to time, in its discretion, such completed 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 the termination 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
prescribe by ordinance the methods and proceedings for the
sewerage and drainage of said annex, and provide the costs and
expenses of the same out of any fund or funds, now or hereafter
available for that purpose; provided that sewerage or drainage
necessary f or. the work hereby authorized may be done out of
the fund hereby provided.

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 streets, avenues, lanes and al-
leys 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, " and
Ordinance No. 77 of said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
approved February 13, 1912, entitled "A general ordinance