WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 257

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 time to time and for such amounts, payable at
such periods, and to bear such rate or rates of interest, all as
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance
or ordinances from time to time provide; but said certificates
of indebtedness shall not be issued, in whole or in part, unless
an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall be sub-
mitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time and
place as may be fixed by said ordinance or ordinances, and be
approved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and
place, as required by Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitu-
tion of Maryland; and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, in submitting any ordinance or ordinances for the issu-
ance of said certificates of indebtedness, or any part thereof,
to the legal voters of Baltimore City, may submit and re-
submit the same at any municipal election 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, mot exceeding the par value thereof, shall be used for
the purpose of enlarging, extending and improving the sani-
tary sewerage and storm water drainage systems of Balti-
more City, including the construction of additional sewage
disposal plants, pumping stations and other appurtenances,
the alteration, repair and improvement of existing sewage dis-
posal plants, pumping stations and other appurtenances, and
the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of any and all
sanitary and storm water sewers, sewage disposal plants,
pumping stations and other appurtenances, 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 Baltimore
shall have all the power of purchase and/or condemnation of
land and property (including the power to purchase and/or
condemn land and property or any interest therein or ap-
purtenant thereto devoted to public or quasi public use) as
is conferred upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
or any agency thereof by Chapter 349 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1904, authorizing the establishment of the sani-
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