T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

bursing officer or officers of the corporation, for
such sums of money as they may deem necessary

CHAP. 7.

for executing their duties under this article; Pro-
vided, however, the same shall not exceed in any
year the amount so as aforesaid certified, or which
may thereafter certified for that year, to the mayor
and city council aforesaid, and in case the said dis-
bursing officer or officers shall not forthwith pay
over the amount of each, requisition as made, it
shall be the duty of said board, and they are
hereby authorized and required to issue certificates
of indebtedness in the name of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, in such amounts as they may
deem advisable, for the amount of such requisitions
respectively, bearing interest at six per cent, per
annum, payable at not more than twelve months
after date, and signed by a majority of the board,
and to raise the money on said certificates by
pledging or disposing of the same, which certifi-
cates shall be receivable at par in payment of city
taxes, and be as binding on said corporation, and
as recoverable against it, as if the mayor and city
city council of Baltimore had themselves issued
said certificates; and the mayor and city council of
Baltimore shall have no power or authority to levy
or collect any tax or appropriate any money for the
payment of any police force other than that to be
organized and employed under this article, and no
officer or servant of the said mayor and city council
shall disburse any money therefor; and the power
of the said mayor and city council to levy and col-
lect taxes, and appropriate and disburse money for
the payment of the police force to be organized or
employed under this article shall be exercised as in

Proviso.

this article directed, and not otherwise; Provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall effect
the power of said mayor and city council under the
nineteenth section of the fourth article of the Con-
stitution; and it is further enacted, that in case the
amount so as aforesaid to be estimated by the said
board, shall, from any unforeseen cause, prove in-
sufficient for the necessary expenses of the current
year, the said board are hereby authorised and em-
powered to issue certificates and raise money there-
from as hereinbefore provided to meet the said exi-

Proviso.

gency; Provided, however, that no such additional
issue shall exceed the sum of thirty thousand dol-
lars in any one year, and that the amount thereof
shall be added to the estimate assessment and levy

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