630 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

is hereby directed to pay all monthly salaries to all officials or
employees whose salaries are paid by or through the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, one-half on the first and one-
half on the fifteenth day of each month, unless otherwise pro-
vided by ordinance.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted) That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to empower the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to issue its stock to an amount not exceeding five million
dollars ($5,000,000) for the purpose of defraying the costs
and expenses of laying out, projecting, constructing and
establishing a pier or piers adjacent to and along the Pataps-
co river and its tributaries, both within the limits of the
City of Baltimore, including therein the acquisition of prop-
erty and streets, the alteration and construction of wharves,
docks and piers and of warehouses, sheds, structures and
buildings, with the right to lease the same, the laying out,
closing, grading and paving of streets, or diminishing and
the cleaning of the harbor or basin and the channels and
channel approaches, the fixing of buoys and the doing of all
other things that may be necessary to carry out the proper
and final completion of a pier or piers, adjacent to and along
the Patapsco river and its tributaries, both within the limits
of the said City of Baltimore; to authorize the submission of
ordinances to that end to the legal voters of the City of Balti-
more ; and to clothe the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
with full power and authority to carry into effect the im-
provements and public work mentioned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor, and City Council of Baltimore be and it
is hereby authorized to issue the stock of the said corporation
to an amount not exceeding five million dollars ($5,000,000) ;
said stock may be issued all at the same time pursuant to the
same ordinance, or the same may be issued from time to time
in separate issues of such respective amounts, and such respec-
tive issues shall be payable at such respective dates and shall
bear such rate of interest, respectively, as the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall in each case, by ordinance, pre-
scribe; and the power to issue said stock to the full amount
aforesaid shall not be deemed to be exhausted until said full
amount thereof shall have been actually issued; provided, how-