The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-09-22
CHAPTER 97.
AN ACT to amend Section "a Of Article
of the Constitution of this State.


AN ACT to amend Section 81 OF Article 8
of the Constitution of this state.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted by the General As.
Sembiy Of Maryland (three-fifths 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 this State, and II adopted
by the legal and qualified voters thereof, as
herein provided, IL shall supersede and stand
in the place and stead dissection 81 OF Article
of said Constitution.
SECTION "a. No debt shall he hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by q Iaw.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 10 dis
charge 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shall not be repealed or applied to any other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 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 shall the
General Assembly have the power in any
mode to involve the State In the construc-
ton of works of internal Improvement, nor
in granting any aid thereto which shall in
volve 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. Marys,
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct
heretofore aided by the State; and pro-
vided that such aid, advances or appropri-
ations shall not exceed in the aggregate the
sum OF five hundred thousand dollars, and
they shall not use or appropriate the pro-
ceeds of the internal Improvement compa-
MES, or ofthe state tax now levied or which
may hereafter be levied to pay off the
public debt. to amy 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 Vt n
row an amount never to exceed fifty thou
sand dollars to meet 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
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 any funds in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money
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.
SECTION 2 And be IL further enacted on The
authority aforesaid, That the aforego-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment to 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
Article II 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-
stitutional Amendment" and against
Constitutional Amendment as now pre-
scribed 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
ument proposing an Amendment TO the
Constitution of the state of Maryland, the
original of which was passed by the Senate
by yeas and nays, more than three-fifths OF
all the members elected voting in the af-
hrmative ON March2 1901.
SPENCER CLONES,
President Of The Senate
ROBERT MOSS,
Secretary ofhe Senate
This Is to certify that this engrogsed doc
ument proposing an Amendment TO the
Constitution ofthe State OF Maryland, the
original OF which was passed by the House
of Delegates by yeas and nays, more than
three-hfths of all the members elected vot-
ed in the affirmative on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE Y. EvERHART,
Speaker Of The House Of Delegates,
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH,
c7sief Clerk.