970 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 511

limited to, the proceeds of grants or contributions from the
United States of America, or the State of Maryland, or any
department or agency thereof, or from any funds of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore that may be lawfully
available therefor, or any other source, and compensation
paid from appropriated funds by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore for land retained by it; and (b) any
contract or rights thereunder then existing between the
United States of America, or any department or agency
thereof, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore with
respect to any undertakings for the accomplishment of the
purposes and objects mentioned in or contemplated by the
provisions of this Paragraph (14A). Any and all of such
bonds, notes or other obligations shall not be general obli-
gations of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and
shall not be a pledge of or involve the faith and credit or
the taxing power of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more and shall not pledge, convey or mortgage any real
property of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and
shall not constitute a debt of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, all within the meaning of Section 7 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Maryland or within the meaning
of any other constitutional, statutory or charter provision
limiting or restricting the sale or issuance of bonds, notes
or other obligations of said municipality. Any and all such
bonds, notes or other obligations shall be issued by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to an ordi-
nance of said municipality without the necessity of sub-
mitting the question of such issuance to the legal voters of
Baltimore City for approval or disapproval. Any such ordi-
nance may prescribe, among other things, the form, terms,
provisions, manner or method of issuing, and the time or
times of issuance, and any and all other details of any such
bonds, notes or other obligations, and vest in the Board
of Estimates any or all of the power and authority which
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore has or may here-
after have in connection with the issuance of any of the
notes, bonds or other obligations authorized to be issued
under the provisions of this sub-paragraph (e):

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case it be
judicially determined that any word, phrase, clause, sen-
tence, paragraph or section in this Act or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance, be invalid, the re-
maining provisions and the application of such provisions
to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.