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re-conversion into coupon certificates of any certificates registered
as to principal.

(c)  The denomination or denominations of the certificates to be
issued at any particular time, which may be not less than One Hun-
dred Dollars ($100) but may be in sums of One Hundred Dollars
($100) or any suitable multiple thereof, and the place or places of
payment of principal and interest thereof.

(d)   The rate of interest of the certificates to be issued at any
particular time not exceeding in any case [3%] 4% 31/2% per
annum, payable semi-annually.

(e)  The date of the certificates issued at any particular time, and
within the limits prescribed by Article III, section 34 of the Con-
stitution of Maryland the redemption dates of said certificates.

The Resolution authorizing the issuance of said loan or any por-
tion thereof shall set forth in detail the dates when any of the certif-
icates representing said loan or any portion thereof are to be re-
deemed and the amount to be redeemed upon such dates, respectively,
according to the serial annuity plan applied to said loan as a whole
or to the group of certificates evidencing a part of said loan issued at
a particular time, as the case may be.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 1 of Chapter 104
of the Acts of 1956 be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

SECTION 1.

That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed
to issue a State loan to be known as the "State Office Building Loan
of 1956", in the aggregate sum of Five Million Five Hundred and
Eighty-five Thousand Dollars ($5,585,000).

The certificates evidencing said loan may be issued all at one time
or, in groups, from time to time, as hereinafter provided. All of said
certificates evidencing said loan, or any group thereof, shall be issued
according to what is known as the serial annuity plan so worked out
as to discharge the principal represented by said certificates within
fifteen (15) years from the time of its issue; provided, however, that
it shall not be necessary to provide for the redemption of any part of
the principal represented by any certificates for the first two (2)
years from the time of the issuance of said certificates.

The Board of Public Works shall, and is hereby authorized and em-
powered to, pass a resolution or resolutions, from time to time, deter-
mining and setting forth:

(a)  That proportion of the total loan authorized by this Act which
shall be issued at any particular time.

(b)  The form of the certificate representing the loan or any part
thereof so authorized to be issued at any particular time, including
any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and provisions for the
issuance of certificates in registered form, provisions for the regis-
tration of any coupon certificates as to principal of loan and for the