124                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 92

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1966.

CHAPTER 92
(House Bill 102)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness
as evidence thereof, to an amount not exceeding one million seven
hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000.00), the proceeds derived
from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for or
in connection with establishing and creating a system, generally
known as a "Book Catalog System," to classify, reclassify and
to catalog any and all books, records and other materials which
now are, or hereafter may be, owned by, in the care or custody of,
or under the control of, the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore
City, including, but not limited to, the purchase or acquisition of
any and all materials and equipment that may be necessary or
proper in connection therewith; 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 One Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars
($1,700,000.00), 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 Council
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