(i) Southern District;

(ii) Southwestern District; and

(iii) Western District.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.

Approved April 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 198
(Senate Bill 768)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore City - Baltimore Museum Service

Center, Inc.

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $700,000
$200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the
Baltimore Museum Service Center, Inc. for certain development or improvement
purposes; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a
requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; requiring
the grantee to grant and convey a certain easement to the Maryland Historical
Trust; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the
loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1) The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur indebtedness on
behalf of the State of Maryland through a State loan to be known as the Baltimore
City - Baltimore Museum Service Center, Inc. Loan of 1999 in a total principal
amount equal to the lesser of (i) $700,000 $200,000 or (ii) the amount of the matching
fund provided in accordance with Section 1(5) below. This loan shall be evidenced by
the issuance, sale, and delivery of State general obligation bonds authorized by a
resolution of the Board of Public Works and issued, sold, and delivered in accordance
with §§ 8-117 through 8-124 of the State Finance and Procurement Article and
Article 31, § 22 of the Code.

(2) The bonds to evidence this loan or installments of this loan may be sold as
a single issue or may be consolidated and sold as part of a single issue of bonds under
§ 8-122 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

(3) The cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be paid to the Treasurer
and first shall be applied to the payment of the expenses of issuing, selling, and
delivering the bonds, unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided, and then
shall be credited on the books of the Comptroller and expended, on approval by the