58                                Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 13

purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore City, and declaring this
act to be an emergency law.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby au-
thorized to issue the certificates of indebtedness of said corporation
to an amount not exceeding Three Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($3,500,000), the said certificates of indebtedness to be issued
from time to time and for such amounts, and payable at such periods,
and to bear such rate or rates of interest, all as the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance or ordinances from time to
time provide; but said certificates of indebtedness shall not be issued
in whole or in part unless an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof
shall be 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 as re-
quired by Section 7 of Article 11 of the Constitution of Maryland;
and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any or-
dinance or ordinances for the issuance of said certificates of in-
debtedness, 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.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of said
certificates of indebtedness hereby authorized to be issued, not exceed-
ing the par value thereof, shall be used for the acquisition, by pur-
chase, condemnation or any other legal means, of land or property,
or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, 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, 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, renovation, modernization or improve-
ment of any buildings or structures 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, acquisition, installation and erection of any and all
kinds of furniture and equipment for any and all of the new facili-
ties authorized to be constructed, erected or acquired by the provi-
sions hereof, and for the purchase, acquisition, installation and erec-
tion 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 con-
nection with, the Enoch Pratt Free Library system; and for doing any
aijd all things necessary in connection therewith or pertaining
thereto.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore may, by ordinance or ordinances, authorize the
issuance of said certificates of indebtedness in series maturing at
stated periods, and may make payable annually a portion of the
principal of said certificates of indebtedness, and any portion or all