678                              Laws of Maryland                        Ch. 288

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, enlarge-
ment, 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.

Sec. 4. 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
Maryland, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 288
(Senate Bill 453)

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 one million five
hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000.00), the proceeds derived
from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for the
acquisition, by purchase, condemnation or any other legal means,
of land or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Balti-
more, and constructing and erecting on said land or property, or
on any land or property now or hereafter owned by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, new Enoch Pratt Free Library
Branch Buildings and other auxiliary facilities, and for additions
and improvements to, or the reconstruction of, existing Enoch
Pratt Free Library buildings, and for the reconstruction, reno-
vation, modernization or improvement of any buildings or struc-
tures now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore and to be used to house the functions or activities of
the Enoch Pratt Free Library system, and for the purchase, acqui-
sition, installation and erection of any and all kinds of furniture
and equipment for any and all of the new facilities authorized
to be constructed, erected or acquired by the provisions hereof,
and for the purchase, acquisition, installation and erection, of any
and all kinds of library or auxiliary equipment for the Enoch
Pratt Free Library system or for alterations to, or the replace-
ment of, any such existing equipment now being used by, or in
connection with, the Enoch Pratt Free Library system; and for
doing any and all things necessary, proper or expedient in con-
nection 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.