1102                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 743

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
empowered to, pass a resolution or resolutions, from time to time,
determining and setting forth:

(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 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 not be 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 4% per annum, payable
semiannually.

(e)     The date of the certificates issued at any particular time,
and within the limits prescribed by Article III, Section 34 of the
Constitution 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, accord-
ing 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
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 Twenty Six Million Five Hundred Ninety Four Thou-
sand and Six Hundred Dollars ($26,594,600) THIRTY ONE MIL-
LION SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($31,075,000)
THIRTY-ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($31,125,000), 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 certifi-
cates shall be signed and countersigned in the manner prescribed by
Section 3 of Article VI of the Maryland Constitution.