Pennsylvania Act 1913-451 — FIRST CLASS CITIES, FISCAL AFFAIRS

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FIRST CLASS CITIES, FISCAL AFFAIRS
                 Act of Jul. 24, 1913, P.L. 976, No. 451              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Making it lawful for appropriations to be made and for contracts
        to be entered into, and work and material to be done and
        furnished under such contracts when funds for the purposes
        thereof shall have been, or have been authorized to be,
        borrowed by cities of the first class, without awaiting the
        issue of such loans or the receipt of the money to be so
        borrowed.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any city of the
     first class shall be authorized, or shall heretofore have been
     authorized, by the municipal authorities thereof to incur debt
     on behalf of such city, for the raising of funds for the
     construction of any public improvement, or for other municipal
     purposes in pursuance thereof, it shall be necessary or proper
     for such city to execute or enter into a contract or contracts,
     it may and shall be lawful for the councils of such city to make
     the necessary appropriation, and for such contract or contracts
     to be executed and entered into, and work to be done and
     material to be furnished thereunder, without awaiting the actual
     issue of the loan or loans so authorized or the receipt by the
     city of the money to be borrowed: Provided, That the purpose or
     purposes of such loan shall be, or shall have been, designated
     in the ordinance directing or permitting the debt to be
     incurred.