The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-09-01

Proclamation.

! of the Constitution of the State. the other
| proposing an amendment to Section 81 of
! Article 3 of the Constitution of the State.
which said bills are in the words following,
TO wit:
CHAPTER 90.
| Az ACT to amend Section 1 OF Article 1 of
! the Constitution of this State and to provide
/ for the submission OF said amendment to the
J qualified voters of this State for adoption or
rejection.
! SEcTioN /. BE it enacted by the General
! Assembly of Maryland Cthree-tilths of all the
members of each of the two Houses concur
I ing That the following section be and the
| same is hereby proposed rs an amendment to
section of Article OF the Constitution OF
this State and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof as herein provided, it
shall SupcrSrde and stand in the place and
stead OF Section l of said Article 1.
SECTIoN l. All elections by the people
ShIl be by ballot. Every male citizen OF the
United states whether native, born or natur-
allied. ut the age of u years or upwards.
who has resided in the State for one year and
in the Legislative district of Baltimore city
or in the county in which he may offer to
vote for six months next preceding the elcc
ton, and who moreover Is duly registered as
qualified voter, as provided in this article,
SA;tl! be entitled to vote in the ward or cleo.
ton district in which he resides at all cleo
tiuns hereinafter 10 be held in this State; and
in any county or city shall he SO divided
to form portions OF different electoral dis
triCts for the election of Representatives, in
Congress. Senators, Delegates or other
officers. then, to entitle a person to vote for
such officer, he must have been a resident of
that part OF the county or city which shall
form part of the electoral district in which
he offers to vote for six months next preced-
ing the election but person who shall have
acquired Il residence in such county or city,
emitting him to vote at any such election
shall be entitled to vote in the election dis
trict from which he removed until he shall
have acquired a residence in the part of the
county or city to which he has removed.
Every such male citizen of the United States
having the above prescribed qualifications of
age and residence shall be entitled to be regis
tered so as to become Il qualified voter if he be.
FirSt-A person able to read any section of
the Constitution of the State submitted to
him by the officers of registration andto give
a reasonable explanation of the sane; or if
unable to read such section is able tC under
stand and give explanation thereof when
read to him by the registration Offices; or
Sccond-A person who on the first day of
January, 1869, or prior thereof was entitled
to vote under the laws of this State or any
other State of the United States wherein he
then resided, or
Third-Any male linea1 descendant of such
person who may be twenty |
one CD years of age or over in the year 9O6. |
No person not thus qualified by coming |
under some one of the above descriptions |
shall be entitled to be registered a quail |
fed voter, nor be entitled to vote.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted;
as amendment to the Constitution of this |
State shall be at the next general election for |
members of the General Assembly to be held |
in this State submitted to the legal and |
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or |
rejection in pursuance of the direction con-
tanned in Article XIV of the Constitution. |
and at said election the vote on said opposed |
shall be by ballot, and upon each |
ballot there shall be written or printed the |
words For the Constitutional Amendment"
or "A gainst the constitutional Amendment
as tide voter shall elect; and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made TO thS
Governor of the vote on said proposed amend
"A = directed Ivy the said MYTH Article of |
the Constitution.
This is to certify that this cugrossed docu-
mcnt 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 three-ffthS of all
members elected voting in the affirmative on
March 3. 1904.
SPENCER {. JONDS.
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.
This is to certify that this engrosscd docu-
mcnt proposing an Amendment to the Con
Stitution of the State of Maryland, the orlgi-
nal of which was passed by the House OF
Delegates by yeas and nays, more than three
iitthS of the members elected voting i'll the
on March 10. 1901.
GEORGE y. EVERHART,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
BENJAMIN L. SMITH;
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article 3
of the Constitution OF this State.
SECTION |. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland tthree-htths of all the
members OF the two Houses concurring,
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 here
in pro vidcd. il shall supersede and stand III
the place and stead of Section - of Article 3
of said Constitution.
SECTION 81. NJ debt shall be hereafter
by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by a law pro-
viding for the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such
debt it 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
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 be given or loaned to, or i'll 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 OfwOrkS ofinternal improve
mcnt. 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 constructions OF works OF Internal
in the counties OF st. MarS'S,
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct adj
vantage from such works as have been here
I oforc 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 of 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 nifty |
thousand dollars to meet temporary dctcien- !
cics in the treasury, and may contract debts |
- any amount that may benccessary TOR the |
defense OF the State.
But nothing i'll 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 APP |
Il 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 regula- |
tons a the General Assembly may from time
to time prescribe.
SECTION . And he it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the aforcgoinS
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 rejection. in pursuance of the
directions contained in Article 1 + OF the Con-
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 "A gainst Constitutional Amendment"
us 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 is to certify that this cngroSsed docu-
mcnt proposing an Amendment to the Com
nal OF which was passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays. more than three-iifthS OF all
the members elected voting in the affirmative,
on March =. 1901.
SPENCER { JONES,
President of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS.
Secretary 1f he