J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      971

(a)   The 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
reconversion 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
Hundred Dollars ($100) but may be in sums of One Hundred Dol-
lars ($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 4% 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 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
particular 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 Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($750,000.00) as evidence of such loan; such Certificates 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 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