The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-09-15

power in any mode to involve the State in
the construction ofworks ofinternal improve
ment. nor In granting any aid thereto which
shall involve the faith or credit of the State;
nor make any appropriation therefor. except
In aid of the construction OF works of internal
Improvement In the counties of St. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct adj
vantage from such works as have been here
tofore aided by the State and provided that
such aid, advances or appropriations shall
not exceed In the aggregate the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars. and they shall not
use or appropriate the proceeds of the inter
nal Improvement companies. or of the State
tax now levied or which may hereafter be
levied to pay off the public debt. to any other
purpose until the interest and debt are fully
paid, or the sinking fund shall be equal to the
amount vi the outstanding debt; but the
General Assembly may. without laying tax,
borrow an amount never to exceed fifty
thousand dollars to meet temporary defcien-
cies In the treasury. and may contract debts
20 any amount that may be necessary for the
defense OF the State.
But nothing in this section or in this Consti-
tuition contained shall deprive the General
Assembly of the power to apportion amongst
and to appropriate to the city of Baltimore
and the several counties of the State out OF
any funds In the Treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated sum of moEey not exceeding
four hundred thousand dollars each year, to
be expended only in the construction and
m maintenance of public roads and highways
under and in accordance with such regufa-
lions as the General Assembly may from time
to time prescribe.
SECTION 9. And be Ii further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That the aforegong
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Consultation shall be. at the mex general
election held In this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, In pursuance of the
stitution of this State, and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot
and upon each ballot shall be printed the
words: For Constitutional Amendment"
and Against Constitutional Amendment"
as now prescribed by law. and Immediately
after said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, directed by
said fourteenth article of the Constitution.
This Is to certify that this engrossrd docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitution OF the State of Maryland the origi-
yeas and nays more than three-fifths of all
the members elected voting In the iii RIM alive
SPENCER JONES.
ROBERT MOSS.
Secretary of the Senate.
This Is to certify that this engrossed docu-
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con-
stitution Of the State of Maryland. the origi-
nal of which was passed by the House OF
Delegates by yeas and nays more than three
tfths of all the members elected voting in the
affirmative. on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE Y. EVERHART
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
BENJAMIN L. SMITH,
(nief Clerk
Now, THEREFORE,, /, EDWIN WAKEFIELD,
Governor of the State of Maryland, in pur-
suance of the provisions of Section ! of Ar
ticle Il of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland. and of the mandate of the Court
of Appeals of the State of Maryland, do here
by order and direct that copy of each of
said bills proposing said amendments to said
Article l and ~ of the Constitution of the
State be published in at least tw newspapers
In each of the counties of the State, where so
many may he published. and In any county
where not more than one newspaper may be
published, then In that newspaper. and in
three newspapers in the city of Baltimore,
one of which shall be In the German language
once a week for at least three months pre-
ceding the next general election, which said
election will held on the 7th day of Novem-
Der, 1908. at which election the said proposed
amendments shall be submitted, in the form
and manner prescribed by the General Assem-
bly,. to the legal and qualified voters of the
State for adoption or rejection.