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CHAPTER 287
(Senate Bill 452)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebted-
ness as evidence thereof, to an amount not exceeding one million
eight hundred thousand dollars ($1,800,000.00), the proceeds de-
rived 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 Baltimore and
establishing thereon or therein, or on or in land or property now
or hereafter owned by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, new parks, playgrounds, playfields, playlots, recreational
centers or recreational buildings; and for the design, redesign,
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 modernization of,
and additions to, public park or recreational buildings, structures
or facilities; and for the acquisition and installation 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 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 One Million Eight Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($1,800,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale thereof
to be used for the purpose or purposes hereinafter mentioned, but
said debt shall not be created and said bonds shall not be issued,
in whole or 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 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 sub-
mitting 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