250 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 154

maining parts of this sub-title, or of any section thereof, if
it had known that such part or parts thereof, or of any sec-
tion thereof, would be declared unconstitutional.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, 1927.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Police Commissioner of
Baltimore City to pay a pension to Geo. W. Reese, formerly
a member of the police force of said City.

(Vetoed, )

CHAPTER 154.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to issue certificates of indebtedness of said corporation
to an amount not exceeding: one million dollars ($1, 000, 000)
for the purpose of defraying the cost and expenses of pro-
viding extensions to its underground conduit systems; author-
izing the submission of an ordinance for that purpose to the
legal voters of the City of Baltimore; empowering the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore to provide by ordinance for
the expenditure of the proceeds of said loan; providing for
the method of expenditure, and declaring this Act an Emer-
gency Law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be, and
it is hereby authorized to issue the certificates of indebtedness
of said corporation to an amount not exceeding one million
dollars ($1, 000, 000), said certificates of indebtedness to be
issued from time to time and for such amounts, payable at such
periods and to bear such rate of interest, all as the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance from time to time
provide; but no stock or bonds shall 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