The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-09-29

UCTVgIIVS u yV.iS INNS,
fitths OF the members elected voting in the
affirmative. on March 10. 1901.
GEORGE y. EVERHART,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
BENJAMIN l.. SMITH.
Chief Clerk.
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article .
OF the Constitution of this State.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland Cthrcc-iitths OF all the
members OF the two Houses coucurrngD
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 here
in provided it shall Supersedc and stand in
the place and stead of Section n of Article 3
of said Constitution.
SECTION 81. No debt shall he hereafter
contracted BY the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by a law pro
vidinE for the collection of AN annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such
debt il falls due, and also to discharge the
principal thereof within fifteen years from the
time of contracting the same. and the taxes
laid for this purpose shall not he repealed or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 he given or loaned to, or in aid
of an individual, association or corporation ::
nor shall the General Assembly have the
power in any mode to involve the State in
the construction ofworks ofinternalimprovc-
mcnt. nor i'll granting any aid thereto which
shall involve the faith or credit of the State :;
nor make any appropriation therefor. except
in aid OF the construction of works OF internal
improvement IN the counties OF 81. Mary ),
Charles and Calvert, which had no direct adj
vantage 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 appropriate the proceeds of the inter
| nal improvement companies, or of the State
tax now levied or which may hereafter lie
| levied to pay of the public debt. to any other
| purpose until the interest and debt fully
| paid, the sinking fund shall be equal to the
of the outstanding debt but the
! General Assembly may, without laying tax,
| borrow an amount never TO exceed fifty
! thousand dollars to meet temporary dcticien-
cics i'll the treasury, and may contract debts
~ any amount that may be necessary for the
| defense OF the State.
| But nothing in this section or in this Consti-
| tuition contained shall deprive the General
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 APP
| propriated, a sum of morey 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 regula-
| lions the General Assembly may from time
| to time prescribe.
| SECTION .. And he it further enacted by
| the authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing
| section hereby proposed as an amendment to
| the Constitution shall he. at the next general
| election held in this State submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof for their
| adoption or rejection, III pursuance of the
directions contained in Article / + of the Con
stitutiou OF his State, and at the said general
election the vote on said proposed amend
| nent TO the Constitution shall he by ballot,
and upon each ballot shall be printed the
| words: For Constitutional Amendment"
and "A gainst Constitutional Amendment
| as now prescribed by law, and Immediately
| after said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and against
| said proposed amendment, directed by
said fourteenth article of the Constitution.
| This is to certify that this engroSsed docu
ment proposing an Amendment to the Con
| stitution OF the State of Maryland, the origi.
nal of which passed by the Senate by
yeas and nays. more than thrce-tifths of all
| the members elected votingi in the affirmative
| ON NJ arch .. 1901.
SPENCER c JONES,
| President Of the Senate.
| ROBERT MOSS.
Secretary of the Senate.