The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-10-21
CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT 10 amend Section "a OF Article y OF
the Constitution of this State.
SEcrIox |. BE IL enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland (three-6fths of all the
members of the two Houses coneurringl J,
That the following section be and the same Is
hereby proposed as an amendment TO the
Constitution of this State, and IL adopted tiy
the legal and qualified voters thereof. as herein
provided, il shall supersede and stand in the
place and stead Of Section "a of Article 3 Of
said Constitution.
SEcTIoN "a. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
snch debt shall be authorized by q Law pro-
yiding sor the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such
debt as Il falls due, and also TO discharge the
principal thereof within fifteen years from the
time OF contracting the same, and the taxes
laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or
anplied to any other object until the said debt
and interest thereon shall be fully discharged.
The credit of the State shall not IN any manner
be given or loaned to, or in aid of any indi-
vidual, association or corporations; nor shall
the General Assembly have the power in any
mode to involve the State ia the construction
of works of internal improvement, nor IN
granting any aid thereto which shall involve
the faith or credit Of the State; nor make any
AUTHORIZATION lutfcloIs cACcpt iR atN VI thS
construction of works OF internal Improvement
ia the counties of St. Mary's, Charles and
Calvert, which had no direct advantage from
.uch works as have been heretofore aided by
the State: and provided that such aid, advances
or appropriations shall not exceed in the az
greeate the sum of FIVE hundred Thousand dol
lars. and they shall not use or appropriate the
proeeeds of the internal improvement cOmpa-
nies, or of the State tax now levied or which
NAV 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 10 the amount of the outstanding
debt: but The General Assembly may, without
Iaying a tax, borrow an amount never TO ex-
ceed fifty thousand dollars TO meet temporary
deficiencies in the treasury, and may contract
debts 10 any amount that may be necessary
for the defense of the State.
But nothing in this section or in this Con-
stitution 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 appro-
priated, a sum of money not exceeding four
hundred thousand dollars each year, to be
expended only in the construction and main
tenance of public roads and highways under
and in accordance with such regulations as
the General Assembly may from time to time
prescribe.
SEcTioS 2. And be 1t further enacted By
the authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing
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 d.
reetions contained in Article IA Of the Con-
stitution Of this State. and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amendment
to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and
upon each ballot shall be printed the words !:
.fFor Constitutional Amendment" and
against Constitutional Amendment" as
now prescribed by law. and Immediately after
said election due return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against said pro
posed amendment, as directed by the said
fourteenth article of the Constitution.
TlL;. "a to oarfifv that This anorOszad d0cu-