1138                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 528

CHAPTER 528
(Senate Bill 504)

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 Three Million
Six Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($3,650,000.00), the pro-
ceeds derived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness
to be used for the acquisition, by purchase or condemnation or
any other legal means, of land or property in the City of Balti-
more and establishing thereon or therein, or on or in land or
property now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, new parks, playgrounds, playfields, playlots, recrea-
tional centers or recreational buildings; and for the design, rede-
sign, development, redevelopment and improvement of park,
school and other properties now or hereafter owned by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore for park or recreational purposes;
and for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, installation,
erection, protection, extension, enlargement, renovation or mod-
ernization of, and additions to, public park or recreational build-
ings, structures or facilities; and for the acquisition and installa-
tion of equipment for any and all new facilities authorized to be
constructed, erected or established under the provisions hereof,
and for 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 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 Six Hundred and Fifty Thou-
sand Dollars ($3,650,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale
thereof to be used for the purpose or purposes hereinafter men-
tioned, 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 ordi-
nances 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 Consti-
tution 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