388                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 177

CHAPTER 177
(House Bill 97)

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 four million dollars
($4,000,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale of the certifi-
cates of indebtedness to be used for the acquisition, by purchase,
condemnation or any other legal means, of land or property, or any
rights therein, located within or outside the boundary lines of
Baltimore City, and for establishing, erecting, constructing and
equipping a new modern and adequate incinerator or reduction
plant for the disposal of rubbish, refuse and/or garbage and any
and all facilities and appurtenances necessary or useful in connec-
tion with the use and operation of such modern incinerator or
reduction plant on said land or property or on any other land or
property now or hereafter owned or controlled by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, and for doing any and all things neces-
sary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining to any
or all of the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing
said municipality to submit an ordinance or ordinances for said
purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore City INCLUDING CER-
TAIN REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED HEREIN, TO PROVIDE
FOR THE TRANSFER AND CONTINUED USE OF THE
PROPERTY NOW USED AS THE REEDBIRD INCINERATOR
IN THE CITY, and providing generally for the issuance and sale
of said certificate 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 Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00), the pro-
ceeds derived from the sale thereof to be used for the purposes herein-
after mentioned, but said debt shall not be created and said bonds
shall not be issued, in whole or in part, unless an ordinance or ordi-
nances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore providing for the
issuance thereof shall be first submitted to the legal voters of Balti-
more 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 Balti-
more, 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
accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency designated in the