The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-03
CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT to amend Section "a OF Article 9
of the Constitution OF this State.

AN All W SScllOA "a OI ATIIClU .
of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION /. Be il enacted on the General As
sentty Of Maryland (three-ifths 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 81. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by q law pro-
viding for the collection of an annual tax
or taxes sufficient to pay the interest on
such debt as 1t falls due, and also 10 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shall not be repealed or applied to any other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 there
on 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 he power in any
mode to involve the State In the construc-
ton of works OF Internal improvement, nor
In granting any aid thereto which shall in
volve 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 st. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert. which had no direct
advantage from such works as have been
heretofore aided by the State; and pro-
atoms shall not exceed N the aggregate the
sum OF five hundred thousand dollars, and
they sn " not use or appropriate the pro-
ceeds of the internal Improvement comp
MES, or o! the state tax now levied or which
may hereafter be levied to pay off the
pubic Gebt. to any other purpose until
the interest and debt are fully paid, or the
sinking fund shall be equal to the amount
OF the outstanding debt; but the General
Assembly may, without laying a tax, Dor
row an amount never to exceed fifty thou
| tn
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
Constitution contained Shall deprive the
General Assembly of the power to appor-
! ton amongst and to appropriate 20 the city
OF Baltimore and 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 dol
lars, eacn year, TO be expended only in the
construction and maintenance of public
roads and highways der and IN accord
anee with such reguiat Ons as the General
Assembly may rom time to time pres cribe.
SECTION z And bs IL further enacted on the
| authority Aforesaid, That the aforego-
going section hereby proposed as an amend
ment TO 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
ArIlcle IA oil the Constitution of this state,
and at the said general election the vote
on said proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot shall be printed the words: sFor Con-
stituuonal Amendment" and against
constitutional Amendment as now pre-
scrlDed by law, and Immediately after said
election due return shall be made to the
governor OF the vote for and against said
I proposed amendment, as directed by the
SAID fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
This is to certify that this engrossed doc
ument proposing an Amendment to the
constitution of the State of MARYLAND the
original OF which was passed by the Senate
Dy yeas and nays, more than three-ffths OF
al the members elected voting in the af-
nrmatlve on March q 1904.
SPENCER C. JONES,
poprpT ,,oaa Presidentof The Senate.
Secretary ofhe Senate.
rms is'to certify that this engrossed doc
1ment proposing an Amendment to the
CONSTITUTION OF the State of Maryland the
original of which was passed by the House
~ delegates by yeas and NAYS, more than
tnree-nfths of all the members elected yot-
ca In the Affirmative ON March TO- 1904.
GEORGE Y. EvERHART,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.
BENJAMIN L. SMITH,
QAtef Clerk.