"956                           LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. 379

CHAPTER 379.

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 five hundred thousand dollars
($500, 000) for the purpose. of acquiring the necessary land
and any improvements that may be thereon, by purchase,
condemnation or otherwise, and the constructing thereon of
the building or buildings which may be required, and/or
the remodeling and/or reconstruction of any existing
building or buildings thereon and the purchase and
installation of equipment, furniture and furnishings,
properly to house, equip, and provide for the court rooms,
offices and other activities of the People's Court of Balti-
more City and the Juvenile Court of Baltimore City, and to
authorize the submission of an ordinance for said purposes
to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore and granting to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore the right to pro-
vide by ordinance for the expenditure of the proceeds of said
loan, and declaring this act an emergency law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be
and it is hereby authorized to issue the certificates of indebted-
ness of said corporation to an amount not exceeding five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($500, 000), said certificates of indebted-
ness to be issued from time to time as the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance provide, and to be
issued for such amounts and to be payable at such times as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance pro-
vide; but no such certificates shall be issued in whole or in part
unless the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more providing for the issuance thereof shall be submitted to
the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time and place as
may be fixed by said ordinance and be approved by a majority
of the votes cast at such time and place as required by Section
7 of Article 11 of the Constitution of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the
certificates of indebtedness not exceeding their par value hereby
authorized to be issued shall be used for the purposes of ac-
quiring the necessary land and any improvements that may be
thereon, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, and the con-
structing thereon of the building or buildings which may be