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Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH,
Ger did not CHIEF Clerk.
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the government of foreign affairs. he
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SECTION "a. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by law pre-
viding for the collection of an annual tax
or taxes sufficient to pay the interest on
such debt as il falls due, and also to dis
charge the principal thereof within fifteen
years rom the time of contracting the
same, and the taxes laid for this purpose
snail not be repealed or applied to any other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
YolNe the faith or credit Of the State nor
make any appropriation therefor. except in
ana OF the construction Of works of internal
tmprovems Mt In the counties Of st. Mary's
charles and Calvert, which had no direct
advantage rom such works as have been
heretofore aided by the state; and pro-
Nldeu that such aid, advances or appropri-
atoms shall not exceed N the aggregate the
sum o i've hundred thousand dollars and
theN snl not use or appropriate the pro-
ceed1 of the internal Improvement compa-
lnxfa aa1 a ffsl,
may hereafter be levied to pay off the
pubic debt to any other purpOSe until
the interest and debt are mlly paid, or the
SINKING tund shall he equal to the amount
OF the outstanding deb: but the General
Assembly may, without laying a tax Dor
row m amount never TO exceed fifty thou
sand dollars to mest 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-
tlon amongst and To appropriate TO the city
ol Balt more ana the several counties OF
the stare out OF any funds in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated n sum of money
not exceeding four hundred thousand dol
lars, each year, to be expended only in the
construction and maintenance o. public
ROADS ana highways lder and IN accord
ance with such regulat ons as the General
ASSEMBLY, may rom tlme to time pres cribe.
SECTION Ahd D. nhprther enacted on he
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
pursuance OF the directions contained IN
Article a of the Constitution of this State
ana ~ the said general election the vote
on said proposed amendment 10 the Consti-
tuition shall be by ballot, and llpqn each
balloi snail be printed the words: FOR on
stitutional Amendment" and @Apainst
constitutional Amendment,n as now pre-
scrlDed 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 Consritutton
This Is to certify that this engrossed doc
ument proposing an Amendment 10 the
constitution OF the state of MARYLAND. the
yyIislnal OF winch was passed by the senate
W yeas ana nays, more than three-fifths Of
all the members elected voting in the af
nrmative on March 9 1904
SPENCER G. JONES,
BANANA a Iresidentof The Senate.
Secretary ofhe Senate
This is to certify that this engroased doc
ument proposing an Amendment to the
constitution of the State OF MARYLAND the
original OF which was passed by the Horse
oI delegates by yeas and nays, more than
snree-niths OF all the members elected yob-
gu IA the Affirmative on March 10. 1904.
GEORGE Y. EvERHART.
Speaker " the Hotss Of Delegates.
BENJAMIN L. SMITH,
CHIEF Clerk.