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pensation of said Secretary and other assistants, aides and
employees shall be subject to the approval of the Board of
Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
and shall be paid as provided in the annual Ordinance of
Estimates of said municipality. The Commission, with the
prior approval of the Board of Estimates, may employ or
hire, from time to time, by contract, consulting, planning
or designing engineers or architects or other persons pos-
sessing technical or specialized skills in connection with
the duties and powers of the Commission. The Commission
shall exercise all powers and authority conferred upon it
in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as it is now consti-
tuted or as it hereafter may be amended.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no part of the
proceeds of sale of the certificates of indebtedness hereby
authorized to be issued shall be expended until after The
Off-Street Parking Commission of Baltimore City has sub-
mitted its written recommendation, which shall set forth
the purposes for, and the terms and conditions upon, which
each particular sum of money is to be expended, to the
Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore and such recommendation has been approved by
said Board of Estimates.

In addition, no part of the proceeds of sale of the certifi-
cates of indebtedness hereby authorized to be issued shall
be expended for actually constructing, erecting, altering,
expanding, enlarging, improving or equipping any build-
ing, structure or facility on, under or in any land or prop-
erty, regardless of who owns or otherwise holds or controls
any such land or property, for storing, parking and servic-
ing self-propelled vehicles (as distinguished from funds
which are necessary to be expended in connection with the
acquisition of land or property or the preparation of plans
or the employment of assistants, aides and employees of
The Off-Street Parking Commission of Baltimore City or
other matters or things which are usually and generally
preliminary to the commencement of actual construction
work) until after the municipal corporation, with the ap-
proval of its Board of Estimates, shall have entered into
a binding contract with a private, public or quasi-public
corporation, partnership, association, person or other legal
entity secured to the satisfaction of the said Board of
Estimates, under the terms of which the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore will be reimbursed for at least all
expenditures of money made by it in connection with the