902 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 470

dates for Commissioner, not less than six days preceding the date
set for election, and have the same published in at least one news-
paper in Talbot County not less than six days preceding said
election, such names shall be grouped and arranged alphabeti-
cally according to surname. The ballot shall be of white paper
not exceeding five inches in width and of sufficient length to ac-
commodate the names of the candidates, and said ballot shall be
voted by the voter drawing a black line through the names not
voted for. If at any election there be any question to be submit-
ted to the voters, said question shall be placed upon the ballot in
full followed by a line "For proposition" and a line "Against
proposition" and the voter shall strike out with a black line
whichever proposition he is against.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the Im-
mediate preservation of the public safety and health, ana
being passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-
fifths of all members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
passage.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 470.

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 ten million dollars ($10, 000, -
000), for the purpose of defraying the cost and expenses of
the acquisition of school house sites and the construction of
school buildings; additions, improvements, and re-construc-
tion of existing school buildings; authorizing the submission
of an ordinance for that purpose to the legal voters of the
City of Baltimore; empowering the Mayor and City Coun-
cil 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 emergency 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 ten million dollars
($10, 000, 000), said certificates of indebtedness to be issued from