The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-10-21
CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT to amend Section "a of Article of the


Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. Be II enacted 6V the General assembly
Of Maryland, (three-ffths 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 herein provided, it shall supersede
and stand in the place and stead of Section "a of
Article of said Constitution.
SECTION "a. No debt shall be hereafter con-
tracted by the General Assembly unless such
debt shall be authorized by law providing 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 contrac-
ting the same, and the taxes laid for this pur-
pose shall not be repealed or applied to any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 association
or corporation; nor shall the General Assembly
have the power in any mode to involve the State
in the construction of works of internal i'm
which shall involve the faith or credit of the
State; nor make any appropriation therefor,
ternal improvement in the counties of st.
Mary's, Charles and Calvert, which had no direct
y t6s ae as
such aid, advances or appropriations shall not
exceed in the aggregate the sum of five hundred
propriate the proceeds Of the internal improve
ment companies. or of the State tax now levied.
or which may hereafter be levied to pay off the
terest and debt are fully paid, or the sinking
fund shall be equal to the amount of the out
standing debt; but the General Assembly may,
without laying tax, borrow an amount never
to exceed fifty thousand dollars to meet tempo
rary deficiencies in the treasury, and may con-
tract debts to any amount that may be necessa-
ry for the defense of the State.
But nothing in this section or in this COnstitu
tion contained shall deprive the General AS
sembly 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 construction and maintenance of public
roads and highways under and in accordance
with such regulations as the General Assembly
may from time to time prescribe.
SECTION 2. And be u JuTther enacted 6y the
authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Con-
stitutiOn shall be, at the next general election
held in this State, submitted to the legal and
qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
tained in Article IA of the Constitution of this
State, and at the said general election the 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 immedi-
ately 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 document
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-ffths of all the members elected
voting in the affirmative. on March 2, 1904.
SPENCER G. JONES,
President Of the Senate.
ROBERT MOSS,
Qenrcf0r1f 0f the i0eu1fe