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now represent them, so that they may be sold in the manner
prescribed by Section 31 of Article 95 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury and the Treasurer
of the State be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered
to have printed or engraved proper certificates of indebtedness
of the State of Maryland, to be dated, respectively, as of the
date of the several certificates of indebtedness mentioned in the
preamble to this Act as having been destroyed, and to be, re-
spectively, of like amount, number, series and issue, and to have
proper coupons for current and future interest, at like rates,
respectively, attached.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when said certifi-
cates of indebtedness have been printed or engraved as afore-
said, each of them shall be signed by the Treasurer of the State
and countersigned by the Comptroller of the Treasury and when
so signed and countersigned, said certificates of indebtedness
shall be held and deemed to be valid and binding obligations
of the State of Maryland, the principal thereof and the interest
to be paid thereon to be held and taken to be secured in the same
way and to the same extent as provided by the several Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland creating the issues of which
the certificates of indebtedness which were destroyed, respec-
tively, were a part.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said certificates of
indebtedness when printed or engraved and when signed and
countersigned as aforesaid, shall form part of the several sink-
ing fund accounts to the extent and in the manner and amount
as recited in the preamble of this Act, and the certificates here-
tofore held in said sinking fund accounts in place of the certifi-
cates of indebtedness that were destroyed, shall likewise be de-
stroyed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That each and every of
the certificates of indebtedness of the State of Maryland that
may be printed or engraved and signed and countersigned as
by this Act provided, and forming part of said several sinking
fund accounts, may be sold by the Treasurer of the State on
order of the Board of Public Works in the manner provided by
Section 31 of Article 95 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.