390                               Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 128

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, and by the municipal agency designated
in the annual Ordinance of Estimates 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 discharge
the entire principal amount represented thereby within not more
than forty (40) years from the date of their issuance; provided,
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 issued
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 theretofore
issued and outstanding or authorized to be issued and outstanding,
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 applied
first to defray the costs 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
principal and interest payable thereon (including any profit made in
the sale thereof), shall be and remain exempt from any and all State,
county and municipal taxation in the State of Maryland.

(g)    All bonds issued and sold pursuant to the provisions of this
Act shall be sold at public sale to the highest responsible bidder or
bidders therefor after due notice of such sale, but the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, or the Commissioners of Finance, as the case
may be, shall have the right to reject any or all bids therefor for
any reason, and thereafter reoffer such bonds at public sale as afore-
said or at private sale, provided that if such bonds be offered at
private sale they shall be offered for sale and sold for not less than
par and accrued interest.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby authorized, in the ordinance
or ordinances to be submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City,
from time to time, (i) to determine and set forth, any or all of the
following, or (ii) to empower a majority of the Commissioners of
Finance of said municipality to pass a resolution or resolutions,
from time to time, to determine and set forth, any or all of the
following:

(a) The amount of the total debt, authorized by this Act and
the ordinance submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City, which
shall be issued at any particular time;