The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-18
olJSahCl VI liIS Mons
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH.

Chief Clerk.
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article .
of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (threc-htths Of all the
members of the two Houses concurringD
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed amendment to the
Constitution of this State. and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as here
in provided. it shall Supersede and stand in
the place and stead of Section 81 of Article 3
of said Constitution.
SECTION ~. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by a law pro-
vidiug for the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest On such
debt il falls due, and also to discharge the
principal thereof within fifteen years from the
time of contracting the same, aud the taxes
laid for this purpose shall not lie repealed or
applied to any other object until the said
debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis
charged The credit of the State shall not in
any manner lac given or loaned to, or in aid
OF an individual, association or corporation
nor shall the General Assembly have the
power in any mode to involve the State in
the construction of works ofintcrnalimproyc-
rlent nor in granting any aid thereto which
shall involve the faith 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 ar appropriate the proceeds of the inter
nal Improvement companies, or of the State
tax now levied or which may hereafter be
levied to pay oft 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 OF the outstanding debt: but the
General Assembly may, without LAYING a tax,
borrow an amount never to exceed fifty
thousand dollars to meet temporary deticien-
ces 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 thi. Consti.
tuition contained shall deprive the General
Assembly of the powerte apPortion amongst
and to appropriate to the city OF baltimore
any funds in the Treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, a sum of money not exceeding
four hundred thousand dollars each year, to
be expended only in the construction and
maintenance of public roads and highways
under and in accordance with such regula-
tions as the General Assembly may from time
to time prescribe.
SECTION . And he II further enacted hy
the authority aforesaid That the ;lforegaing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall be. at The next general
election held in this State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
| directions contained in Article l / OF the Con.
StitutiOn of this state, and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
| mcnt to the Constitution shall I've 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. as directed by
| said fourteenth ARTICLE of the Constitution.
This il 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 Senate by
| yeas and nays. more than thrrertiiths of al
| the members elected voting in the affirmative
| on March ., 1905. $1,000.
| SPENCER c. JONES,
| President of the Senate