THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 77

an amount not exceeding One Million Five Hundred Thou-
sand Dollars ($1, 500, 000), the proceeds of the same to be
expended for the installation^ improvement and conversion
of gas street lighting units and facilities into electric street
lighting units and facilities and the purchase, acquisition,
installation and erection of any and all equipment, units
and facilities for the lighting of streets and public ways and
places in the City of Baltimore and for doing any and all
things necessary in connection therewith or pertaining there-
to; and to authorize said municipality to submit an ordi-
nance or ordinances for said purpose to the legal voters of
Baltimore City.

WHEREAS, as of January 1, 1950, there were in service in the
City of Baltimore approximately 14, 000 gas lights for lighting
the public streets and alleys; and

WHEREAS, this is a very inefficient system of lighting streets
and, at the recent rate of replacement, a period of several years
would be required for the conversion of these gas street lights
to electric street lights; and

WHEREAS, the condition of poorly-lighted streets and public
places is one of acute emergency in the City of Baltimore,
representing an open invitation to crime and calls for the
speedy remedy of such conditions; now therefore

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 One Million
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1, 500, 000), the said certifi-
cates of indebtedness to be issued from time to time and for
such amounts, and payments 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 issu-
ance thereof shall be submitted to the legal voters of Balti-
more 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 11 of the Constitution of Maryland; and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any ordinance
or ordinances 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 election
as well as at any general election to be held in Baltimore City.