SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                         545

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 Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($5,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to be
used for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, but 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
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 ordi-
nances 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.

(c)    All of said bonds, or any part thereof, shall be issued in
accordance with a serial maturity plan so worked out as to dis-
charge the entire principal amount represented thereby within not
more than forty (40) years from the date of their issuance; pro-
vided, however, that it shall not be necessary to provide for the
maturity of any part of the principal amount represented by any
of said bonds for the first five (5) years from the date of their
issuance.

(d)    Until all of the interest on and principal of any bonds is-
sued pursuant to the provisions of this Act have been paid in full,
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall levy and impose an
annual tax on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assessable
property in the City of Baltimore at a rate sufficient to produce
revenue to pay all interest on and principal of all bonds thereto-
fore issued and outstanding or authorized to be issued and outstand-
ing, payable in the next succeeding year.

(e)    All premiums resulting from the sale of any of the bonds
issued and sold pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be ap-
plied first to defray the cost of issuance thereof and the balance,
if any, shall be applied to the payment of interest on any of said
bonds becoming due and payable during the fiscal year in which
said bonds are issued and sold or during the next succeeding fiscal
year.

(f)    The debt authorized by the provisions of this Act, and the
bonds issued and sold pursuant thereto and their transfer, and the