Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-11-04
FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
CHAPTER o..

An ACT TO AMEND SECTION THIRTY POUR OF
ARTICLE THREE or THE CONSTITUTION or
THIS STATE.
SectionI BE it enacted by the General As
sembly OF Maryland three ffths of all the
members of the two Houses cOncurTing) 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 of section thirty -four
OF Article three OF said Constitution.
section "a. No debt shall be hereafter con
tracted by the General Assembly, unless such
debt shall be authorized by a law providing
for the collection Of an annual tax or taxes
sufficient to pay the interest on such debt a.
IL fails due ana also g discharge the princi-
PAL Thereon within ffteen 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laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or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 dis
charged. The credit OF the State shall not
IN any manner be given or loaned to, or In
aid or any individual. association or cor
pOratlOn; nor shall the General Assembly
have the powefFin any mode to involve the
state in the construction OF works Of inter
nal Improvement, nor In granting any aid
thereto which shall inv olive the faith or cred
IL Of the state nor make any appropriation
therefor, except IN aid OF the construction OF
works OF internal Improvement in the coun-
ties OF st. Mary's, Charles and Calvert. which
had no direct advantage from such works
as have been heretofore aided by the State
and provided that such aid. advances or APP
preparations shall not exceed In the aggre-
lars. and they shall not use or appropriate
the proceeds Of the internal IMPROVEMENT
companies, or OF the State tax now levied or
which may hereafter be levied to pay on the
public debt 10 any other purpose until the
Interest and debt are fully paid, or the sink
ing fund SHAH be equal to the amount OF the
outstanding debt but the General Assembly
may, without laying tax. borrow an amount
never to exceed fifty thousand dollars 10
meet temporary deficiencies In the Treas
ury, and may contract debts to any amount
that may be necessa ~ for the defense Of the
state.
But nothing IN this Section or in this Con
-stitution contained shall deprive the Gener-
al Assembly OF the power TO appOrtion
amongst and to appropriate to the City OF
Baltimore ana 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 dollars
each year. 10 be expended only In the con
structjon ana maintenance Of public roads
and highways under and in accordance with
may from time TO time prescribe.
section 2. And be IL further enacted by the
authority Aforesaid. that the aforegoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an Amendment 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 Il Of the Con-
siftution OF this state, and at the said gener-
al election the vote on said proposed Amend
snent to the Constitution shall be by ballot
and upon each ballot shall be printed the
words ~For Constitutional Amendment
and Against Constitutional Amendment"
as now prescribed by law. and iumedia tely
after said election due return shah be made
to the Governor. Of the vote for and against
said proposed Amendment directed by
said fourteenth Article OF the Constitution.