SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1665

May 7, 1968.

Honorable Marvin Mandel
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Section 17 of Article II of the Maryland
Constitution, I have vetoed today House Bill 943 and am returning
it to you.

This bill authorizes the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt in the amount of one million five hundred thousand
dollars. The measure is a duplicate of Senate Bill 453, which has
been signed and is now Chapter 568 of the 1968 Laws of Maryland.

Sincerely,
(s) Spiro T. Agnew,

Governor.

House Bill No. 961—Baltimore City—Bonds

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 six million five
hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from
the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for or in connec-
tion with the planning, developing, executing and making operative
the urban renewal program of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, by purchase, lease,
condemnation or any other legal means, of land or property, or any
right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in the City
of Baltimore; the payment of any and all costs and expenses in-
curred in connection with or incidental to the acquisition and manage-
ment of said land or property including any and all rights or in-
terests therein hereinbefore mentioned; the payment of any and all
costs and expenses 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
hereinbefore mentioned; the development or redevelopment, includ-
ing, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or rehabilita-
tion of any land or property, or any rights or interests therein
hereinbefore mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the disposition
of land and property for such purposes; the elimination of unhealth-
ful, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessening density, eliminating
obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare or otherwise
removing or preventing the spread of blight or deterioration 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 construc-
tion, 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