The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-05
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AN ACT to amend Section "a of Article 3 of the
Constitution of this State
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted bV the General ASsenably
of Maryland, (three-fifths 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 81 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 taxes sufficient
to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due.
and also to discharge the principal thereof
within hfteen 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pose shall not be repealed or applied to any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
prOvement, nor in granting any aid thereto
which shall involve the faith or credit of the
State; nor r., make "a any appropriation therefor,
ternal improvement in the counties of st.
Mary's, Charles and Calvert. which had no direct
advantage from such works as have been here
tofore aided by 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 or ap-
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
public debt, to any other purpose until the in
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-
ton 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 g And be ID further enacted By 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
rejection, in pursuance of the directions con-
tanned 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
than three-fifths of all the members elected
voting in the Affirmative on March 2, 1904.
SPENCER G. JONES,
President Of the Senate.