The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-09-07
The Republican
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herein provided, it shall supersede and stand
IN the place and st al of Section 81 of Arti-
Gle Of said Constitution.
SECTION 81. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by law pro
vidinE 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 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be repealed or applied to any other object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 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 i'll any mode to-
involve sthe state in the construction of
works of internal Improvement, nor in
granting any aid thereto which shall involve
the faith or credit O. the State: nor make
any appropriation therefor, except i'll aid
the construction of works Of internal i'm
prOyement in the counties of st. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert, which had 10 direct
advantage from such works as have been
heretofore aided 10y the State; and provided
That such aid, advances or appropriations
shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of
five hundred thousand dollars, and they
shall not use Inappropriate the 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,
any other purpose until the interest q
debt are fully paid, or the sinking fund sha.
he equal to the amount Of the OUTSTANDING
debt; but the General Assembly may. with
out laying a tax, borrow an amount never
to exceed fifty thousand 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 Con
SttutiOn 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-
SUrucbiOn 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 6gH,e
authority Gf0rcsaid, That the aforegoing sec
tton hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall be, at the next general
election held nths State. submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the
directions contained in Article II of the Con-
StitutiOn Of this State, and at the said gem
eral 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
mentn 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-
ment proposing am Amendment to the 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 atf1rma-
tive, on March ,, 1904.
SPENCER c. JONES,
" President u the Senate,
Secretary ofhbe Senate.