Allen v. Mayor of Baltimore

This appeal is from an order in a tax payer’s suit declaring that an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, authorizing the issuance and sale of certain school bonds, had been validly submitted to and approved by the voters at the municipal election of May 5, 1959, despite an admitted failure of the City to advertise the complete text of the Ordinance in advance of the election, as required by the terms of the Ordinance itself.

It should be noted at the outset that there was full compliance with State law. Code (1957), Art. 33, sec. 167 (a) provides: “If questions of local…