1036 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 444
property, including any and all rights or interests therein here-
inbefore mentioned; the payment of any and all costs and ex-
penses incurred for or in connection with relocating and moving
persons or other legal entities displaced by the acquisition of said
land or property, or any of the rights or interests therein herein-
before mentioned; the development or redevelopment, including,
but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or rehabilitation
of any land or property, or any rights or interests therein here-
inbefore mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the disposition
of land and property for such purposes; the elimination of un-
healthful, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessening density, elim-
inating obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare or
otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or deteriora-
tion in the City of Baltimore; the demolition, removal, relocation,
renovation or alteration of land, buildings, streets, highways,
alleys, utilities or services, and other structures or improvements,
and for the construction, reconstruction, installation, relocation or
repair of buildings, streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services,
and other structures or improvements; the payment of any and
all costs and expenses incurred for or in connection with doing
any or all of the things herein mentioned, including, but not
limited to, the costs and expenses of securing administrative, ap-
praisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing, archi-
tectural, surveying, and other professional services; and doing
any and all things necessary, proper or expedient in connection
with or pertaining to any or all of the matters or things herein-
before mentioned; 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 Three Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars
($3,900,000.00), 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 sub-
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