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terns of Baltimore City, including, but not limited to, the construc-
tion of additional sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and
other appurtenances, the alteration, enlargement, modernization
and improvement of existing sewage disposal plants, pumping sta-
tions and other appurtenances, and the acquisition by purchase or
condemnation of any and all sanitary and storm water sewers, sew-
age disposal plants, pumping stations and other appurtenances, as
well as of any and all land and property, and of any right, interest,
franchise, easement or privilege therein, as may be necessary for
any or all of the above mentioned purposes, and doing any and all
things necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or per-
taining to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore men-
tioned, and any or all of said work or acquisition of property may
be done either within or outside of the boundary lines of Baltimore
City; conferring certain powers upon said municipality in connec-
tion with the purchase and condemnation of land and property to
enable it to accomplish and effectuate the objectives and purposes
of this Act; authorizing said municipality to submit an ordinance
or ordinances for said purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore
City, and providing generally for the issuance and sale of said
certificates of indebtedness.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That:

(a)   The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized to create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of
indebtedness (hereafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to an
amount not exceeding Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($17,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale thereof
to be used for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, but said debt
shall not be created and said bonds shall not be issued, in whole or in
part, unless an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall be first sub-
mitted to the legal voters of Baltimore 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, all as required by
Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of Maryland; and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any ordinance
or ordinances for the issuance of said bonds, or any part thereof, to
the legal voters of Baltimore City, may submit and resubmit the
same at any municipal election as well as at any general election to
be held in Baltimore City.

(b)   The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may submit, by
one ordinance, the whole of the debt authorized by this Act to the
legal voters of Baltimore City at one time, or it may, by one or more
separate ordinances, submit a part thereof to the legal voters of said
city at different times; and any ordinance or ordinances submitting
the whole or any part of such debt to the legal voters of Baltimore
City shall provide for the expenditure of the proceeds thereof in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency designated in the
annual Ordinances of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

(c)   All of said bonds, or any part thereof, shall be issued in ac-
cordance with a serial maturity plan so worked out as to discharge