SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1083

Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($17,500,000.00) to an
amount not exceeding Twelve Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dol-
lars ($12,700,000.00).

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this
Act shall be taken or construed to:

(a) Change, alter or modify any of the terms and provisions of
Chapter 170 of the Laws of Maryland of 1963, except in the manner
and to the extent specifically set forth herein.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 571
(Senate Bill 456)

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
Certificates of Indebtedness to be used for the acquisition, by pur-
chase or condemnation or any other legal means, of land or prop-
erty in the City of Baltimore 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, recreational centers or recreational buildings; and for
the design, redesign, development, redevelopment and improve-
ment of park, school and other properties now or hereafter owned
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for park or recrea-
tional purposes; and for the acquisition, construction, reconstruc-
tion, installation, erection, protection, extension, enlargement,

renovation or modernization of, and additions to, public park or
recreational buildings, structures or facilities; and for the acqui-
sition and installation of equipment for any and all new facilities
authorized to be constructed, erected or established under the pro-
visions 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 munici-
pality 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