In  making  up  the  budget  allowance
for  any  current  year  the  Board  of  Com-
missioners shall  first  make  provisions
for  the  payment  of  the  interest  and  for
the  creation,  setting  aside  and  preser-
vation of  a  legal  sinking  fund  upon  all
of  the  outstanding  indebtedness  of  the
city  and  shall  then  make  such  appropri-
ations as  the  remaining  revenues  of  the
city  may  justify  to  be  appropriated
among  the  respective  departments,  or
otherwise    appropriated    for   public   uses,

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as  the  Board  of  Commissioners  may
deem  best;  provided,  however,  that  in
no  case  shall  the  entire  appropriation  so
made,  including  interest  and  sinking
fund  on  the  bonded  debt,  and  appro-
priatioiyfor  all  other  public  uses  and
purposes,  ever  exceed  the  estimated
available  resources,  which  shall  be  based
upon  the  probable  revenue  of  the  city
derived  from  ad  valorem  taxes  upon  the
basis  of  the  total  valuation  of  property
for  taxation  for  the  preceeding  year,
and  of  such  other  contingent  revenues
of  the  city  as  will  probably  accrue.
It  shall  be  deemed  malfeasance  for
the  Board  of  Commissioners  to  make  an
appropriation  in  the  budget,  the  sum
total  of  which  shall  exceed  the  esti-
mated available  or  .probable  revenues  for
any  current  fiscal   year.
See.  25.  The  Board  of  Commission-
ers at  its  second  regular  meeting  in
June  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  there-
after as  practicable,  shall  levy  the  an-
nual tax  for  such  year,  but  special  taxes
or  assessments  allowed  by  this  charter
may  be  levied,  assessed  and  collected  at
such  times  as  the  Board  of  Commis-
sioners  in   each  case   may  provide.
