The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-17
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AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article of !
the Constitution Of the State


AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article of
the Constitution Of the State.
SECTION l. BE il enacted bg the General Az
Seai5iy Of M0pYidad (three-ffths Of all the
members of the two Houses cOncurringl,
That the following section be and the same
Is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the State, and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as
herein provided, it shall supersede and stand
in the place and st ad of Section 81 of Arti-
Gle 3 of said COnst tuition.
SECTION 81. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted 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 as it falls due, and also to dis
charge the principal thereof within fifteen
years from the time 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be repealed or applied to any other object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 discharged. The credit of the
State shall not in any manner be given or
loaned to. or in aid of any individual, aSSO-
citation or corporation; nor shall the General
Assembly have the power in any mode to
involve sthe State i'll 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 appropriation therefor, except in aid of
the construction of works of internal i'm
prOvement in the counties of st. Mary's
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct
advantage from such works as have been
heretofore aided by the State; and provided
tnat such aid, advances or appropriations
shall not exceed in the aggregate tile sum of
five hundred thousand dollars, and they
snail not use inappropriate tile proceeds OF
the internal Improvement companies or of
the State tax now levied or which may here
after be levied to pay off the public debt, TO
any other purpose until the interest aud
debt are fully paid, or the sinking fund shall
be equal to the amount of the outstanding
debt; but the General Assembly may, with
out laying a tax, borrow an amount never
to exceed tttN thousand dollars
temporary deficiencies in the treasury. and
may contract debts to 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 Gen
eral 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 appropriated, sum Of money not
exceeding four hundred thousand dollars
each year, to be expended only in the con-
struction and maintenance of public roads
and highways under and in accordance
with such regulations as the General Assem-
bly, may from time to time prescribe.
SECTION .. and be il FURTHER enacted By the
authority GforeSdid, That the aforegong sec
ton hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall be, at the next general
election held j nthis State, submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained in Article IA of the Con-
stitutiOn of this State and at the said zen
eral election sthe vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot shall be printed
the words: For Constitutional Amend
ment' and Against Constitutional Amend
ment," as now prescribed by law, and i'm
| mediately after said election due return
shall be made to the Governor of the votes
for and against said proposed amendment,
as directed by the said fourteenth article of
the Constitution.
| This is to certify that this engrossed docu-
meut proposing Amendments to thp Con-
| stitution of the State Of Maryland the origi-
nal of which was passed by the Senate by
| yeas and nays, more than three fifths of all
the members elected voting in the atfirma-