HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1501

Baltimore shall by ordinance provide: but said certificates
of indebtedness shall not be issued in whole or in part un-
less an 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 therein, and 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; and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any
ordinance for the issuance of said certificates of indebted-
ness, or any part thereof, to the legal voters of Baltimore
City, may submit and re-submit the same at any municipal
as well as at any general election to be held in Baltimore
City.

SEC, 2. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of
sale of the certificates of indebtedness hereby authorized to
be issued, not exceeding the par value thereof, shall be used
for the purpose of enlarging, extending and improving the
sanitary sewerage and storm water drainage systems of
Baltimore City, including the construction of additional
sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other appur-
tenances, the alteration, repair and improvement of exist-
ing sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other
appurtenances, and the acquisition by purchase or condem-
nation of any and all sanitary and storm water sewers,
sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other appur-
tenances, as well as of any and all land and property, and
of any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege
therein, as may be necessary for any or all of the above-
mentioned purposes.

To enable it to accomplish and effectuate the objects and
purposes of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall have all the power of purchase and/or condem-
nation of land and property (including the power to pur-
chase and/or condemn land and property or any interest
therein or appurtenant thereto devoted to public or quasi
public use) as is conferred upon the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore by Chapter 349 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1904, authorizing the establishment of the
sanitary sewerage and storm water drainage systems of
Baltimore City.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore may, by ordinance, authorize the
issuance of said certificates of indebtedness in series matur-
ing at stated periods, and may make payable annually a
portion of the principal of said certificates of indebtedness,
and any portion or all of said certificates of indebtedness
may or may not be registered, and said certificates of in-