878                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 532

(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
reconversion into coupons 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
Hundred 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% 3½% per annum, pay-
able 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 portion
thereof shall set forth in detail the dates when any of the certificates
representing said loan or any portion thereof are to be redeemed 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 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. Said loan and certificates and
every part thereof and the interest payable thereon shall be and re-
main exempt from State, County and municipal taxation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Public Works
is hereby authorized and directed to have prepared proper Certifi-
cates of Indebtedness of the State in good and sufficient form to
aggregate the amount of Thirteen Million Five Hundred Forty five
Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($13,545,800) SIXTEEN MIL-
LION, EIGHT HUNDRED SIX THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($16,806,100.00), as evidence of such loans; such Certifi-
cates of Indebtedness shall bear date as of the time of their issue as
provided in Section 1 of this Act. Each of said certificates shall be
signed and countersigned in the manner prescribed by Section 3 of
Article VI of the Maryland Constitution.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in order to provide for the
selling of the Certificates of Indebtedness aforesaid, to be issued
under the provisions of this Act, the Board of Public Works is hereby
directed to advertise once before the said Certificates of Indebtedness
or any part thereof, shall be issued, in two newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore and in such other manner as the Board of
Public Works in its discretion may determine, that the Treasurer of
this State will be in readiness at a time within twenty (20) days
after the expiration of said notice to receive bids at such place or
places as may be named in said respective advertisements for bonds
or Certificates of Indebtedness issued under the provisions of this
Act, under such regulations as may be made in the discretion of the
Board of Public Works; and the accrued interest between the date of