The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-04
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary of the Senate.

This is to certify that this engrosSed docu-
mrnt proposing an Amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Maryland, the orlgi-
nal of which passed by the House of
Delegates by yeas and nays: more than three
fifths of the members elected voting in the
affirmative. on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE y. EVERHART.
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
BENJAMIN l. SMiTH It'll.
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article 3
of the Constitution of this State.
SRcTIoN /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland (three-fiths 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
i'll provided. it shall supersede and stand in
the place and stead OF Section 81 of Article 3
of said Constitution.
SECTION 81. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by Il law pro-
Vidiug for the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such
debt as 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laid for this purpose shall not he repealed or
debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis
charged. The credit of the State shall not in
any manner he 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 ofw orks ofinternal improve
ment, 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 cons tructiOn OF works OF internal
Improvement in the counties of st Mary's,
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct adj
vantage rom such works as have been here
tofore aided by the State; and provided that
such aid, advances or appropriations Shal
not exceed in the aggregate the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars, and they shailn not
use or appropriate the proceeds of the inter
nal impro vement companies, or of the State
lut,i Il nr NN-hi sh hp
| levied to pay off the public debt, to any other
purpose until the interest and debt are fully
| paid, the sinking fund shall be eQualto the
| amount of the outstanding debt; but the
| General Assembly may. without laying tan,
| borrow an amount never to exceed tlity
| thousand dollars to meet temporary deticien-
| cieS 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 this Consti-
! tuition cont aimed shall deprive the General
| Assembly OF the power to apportiun amongst
| aud to appropriate to the city Of Baltimore
! and the several counties of the State out of
| amy funds in the Treasury not otherwise APP
| prOpriatrd, a sum OF inoreY not exceeding
| four hundred Thousand dollars each year, to
| m ain teuancc of public roads and highways
| under and in accordance with such regula-
| lions the General Assembly may from time
| to time prescribe.
| SEcTIoX .. And he 1t further enacted by
| the authority aforesaid, That the aforcgoinS
| section hereby proposed rs an amendment to
! the Constitution Snall DE, at the next general
election held in this State, submitted to the
| legal and qualified voters thereof Tor their
| adoption rejection. in pursuance of the
| directions contained in Article II ot the Con
| Stitution OF this State. and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
| meut to the Constitution shall he by ballot.
! and upon each ballot shall be printed the
| words: For Constitutional Amendment
| and a gainSt Constitutional Amendment,
| as now prescribed by law. and Immediately
| after satd election due returns shall he made
| to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment, as directed by
| said fourteenth article of the Constitution.
NOW, THEREFORE,, l, EpwIN WAKEFIELD
Governor of the State OF Maryland, in pur
| suance of the provisions of Section l of Ar.
ticle IL of the Constitution OF the State OF
| Maryland. and of the mandate of the Court
of Appeals of the State of Maryland. do here
| by order and direct that copy OF each OF
said bills proposing said amendments to said
Articles / and 81 OF the Constitution Of th'
State ne published in at least wv q newsp apers
in zach OF the counties OF the State, where st
many may be publishcd. and in any county
| where not more than one newspaper may he
published, then in that newspaper, and ii
three newspapers in the city of Baltimore
one of which shall he in the German language
once a week for at least three months pre-
ceding the next general election, which sale
election will be held on the eth day Of Novcm
Der. 1905, ut whHh election the said proposed
amendments shall be submitted, in the form
and manner pr, scrihcd by the General Assem-
bly,. TO the legal and qualified voters of The
State for adoption rejection
...'.-.'.'.'.'.'''''''''': Given under my hanC
THE GRr,r and the Great Seal of thu
SEAL OF State of Maryland at til,
| MARYLAND City of Annapolis. this -
.....,..........: day Of July, 1908.