J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      951

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 issued at a par-
ticular time, as the case may be. Said loan and certificates and every
part thereof and the interest payable thereon shall be and remain
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
Certificates of Indebtedness of the State in good and sufficient form
to aggregate the amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000.00), as evidence of such loan; such Certificates of Indebt-
edness 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 In-
debtedness, 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 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 the bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness and the time of sale
and delivery of and payments for said bonds or Certificates of Indebt-
edness shall be adjusted with the purchaser thereof under such regu-
lations as may be made in the discretion of the Board of Public
Works; and upon the day mentioned in said advertisement as the
day for opening the bids for the proposals thereby called for, they
shall receive such sealed proposals for the purchase of as many of
such bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness as may be mentioned or
designated in said advertisements; and on the opening of such sealed
proposals, as many of said bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness as
have been so bid for shall be awarded by the Board of Public Works,
to the highest responsible bidder or bidders therefor for cash, if the
prices bid are adequate, in the judgment of the Board of Public
Works, and when two or more bidders have made the same bid, and
such bid is the highest and the Certificates so bid for by the highest
responsible bidder are in excess of the Whole amount of the Certifi-
cates offered for sale, such bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness shall
be awarded to such responsible bidders bidding the same price in a
ratable proportion; or if any insufficient price be bid for them, they
may be subsequently disposed of under the direction of the Board of
Public Works at a private sale upon the best terms they can obtain
for the same; provided, they shall not be sold at private sale for less
than par and accrued interest.