SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1027

CHAPTER 442
(Senate Bill 209)

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 Two Million
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,400,000.00), the proceeds
derived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be
used for extending, enlarging, developing, modernizing and im-
proving the buildings, structures, facilities and plant of the Bal-
timore City Hospitals, located in the 4900 block of Eastern Ave-
nue, Baltimore, Maryland, including but not limited to, the con-
struction and erection of new buildings, structures and facilities;
additions, alterations and improvements to, and the moderniza-
tion, rehabilitation and reconstruction of, existing buildings, struc-
tures and facilities; the construction, erection, relocation, paving
and repaving of roads, walks, parking lots, and other facilities;
acquiring and installing equipment for any and all buildings,
structures or facilities authorized to be constructed or erected by
the provisions hereof, and doing any and all things necessary,
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, and providing gen-
erally 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 Two Million Four Hundred Thousand Dollars
($2,400,000.00), 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 submitted 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 sub-
mitting any ordinance or ordinances for the issuance of said bonds,
or any part thereof, to the legal voters of Baltimore City, may sub-
mit 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