The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-10-20
AN ACT to amend Section "a OF Article I
of the Constitution OF this State.

AN ACT to amend Section "a OF Article 9
of the Constitution OF this State
SECTION l. Be IL enacted by the General As
SenabIy Of Maryland (three-dfths OF all the
members OF the two Houses conourring),
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State, and If adopted
by the legal and qualified voters thereof as
herein provided, 1t shall supersede and stand
in the place and stead OF Section "a OF Article
Of said Constitution.
SECrIoN "a. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted BY the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized BY law pro-
viding for the collection OF an annual tax
or taxes Sufficient to pay the tnterest on
such debt as 1t falls due, and also 10 dis
charge the principal thereof within fifteen
years rom the une of contracting the
same, and the taxes laid Cor this purpose
shall not be repealed or applied to any other
object until the said debt and interest there
on shall be fully discharged. The credit Of
the State shall not in any manner be given
or loaned TO, or in aid of any individual,
association or corporation; nor Ghall the
General Assembly have the power in any
mode 70 involve the State in the construc-
ton OF works of Internal improvement, nor
In granting any aid thereto which shall in
volye 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 bad no direct
advantage from such works rs have been
heretofore aided by the State; and pro
Vlded that such aid advances or Rppropri-
atlons shall not exceed In the aggregate the
sum OF five hsndred thousand dollars, and
they snail not use or appropriate the pro-
ceeds of the internal improvement compa-
MES, or OF the state tax now levied or which
may hereafter be levied to pay OF the
pubtle 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 debi but the General
Assembly may, without laying a tax. bor-
row an amount never to exceed fifty thou
sand dollars to meet temporary deficiencies
lathe treasury, and may contract debts 10
defense of the state.
But nothing in this section or in this
Constitution contained shall deprive the
General Assembly of the power to appor-
ton amongst and to appropriate to the city
OF baltimore and the several counties OF
the state out OF sny funds in the Treasury
not exceeding four hundred thousand dol
lars, each year, to be expended only in the
construction and maintenance OF public
roads and highways under and IN accord
ance with such regulations as the General
Assembly may from time to time prescribe.
shelton 2 And Dc Il further enacted By The
asa.orltg, Voresdtd, That the aforego-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to TO the Constitution shall be, at the
next general eIection 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 Il OF the Constitution OF this State,
and at the said general election the vote
ON said proposed amendment To the Consti-
tuition shah be by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall be printed the words: 'For Con-
stituttonal Amendment and against
Constitutional Amendment" as now pre-
scrlbed by law, and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the
Governor OF the vote for and against said
proposed amendment, as directed by the
said fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed doc
nment proposing an Amendment 10 the
Constltutlon " the state of Maryland, the
original of which was passed by the Senate
by yeas and nays, more than three-nfths OF
az the members elected voting in the af-
hrmative on March Q, 1904.
SPENCER C. JONES,
ROBERT MOSS, 1880
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