Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1905-10-14

CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT to amend Section 81 of Article 3 of
the Constitution of this State.

CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT to amend Section "a of Article 3 of
the Constitution of this State.
SECTION |. BE it cnIctcd 10y the General As
SCmhlN of Maryland ChrcC hS of all the
members of the two Houses CUncurring,l That
the following section be aud the same Is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
ct tins state, and II adopted 10y the legal and
qualified voters thereof, as herein provided, it
shall SupcrScdC and stand in the place and stead
OF Section 81 of Article of said Constitution.
SECTION 81. No debt shall he hereafter con
traCtcd hN the General Assembly unless such
debt shall bC authorized 10y ii law providing for
tn" collection OF an annual tax or taxes SuthC
lent to pay the interest ON such debt as il falls
due, and also TO discharge the principal thereof
within httcCn years from the time of contract
my the same. and the taxes laid for this pur-
pose shall not bC repealed or applied to any
other object until the said debt and interest
thereon shall he full discharged. The credit
OF the state shall not in any manner bC given
or loaned to, or i'll aid of any ndiNidual aSSOci-
alton or corporation nor shall the General As
ScmhlN have the power in any mode to involve
the state in the construction of works of inter
nal Improvement, nor i'll granting any aid
thereto which shall involve the faith credit
of the State; nor make any appropriation
therefor, except in and OF the construction
OF works of internal Improvement in the
counties OF st. Mary :, 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 OrapprOpria
tons shall not exceed i'll the aggregate the sum
of five hundred thousand dollars, and they shall
llbl use or appropriate the proceeds Ol tit IN
tcrnal Improvement companies, or of the state
tax now levied or which may hereafter he ley
led to pay of the public debt, to any other
purpose until the interest and debt are fully
paid, or the sinking fund shall bc equal to the
amount of the outstanding debt ; but the Gen
cral Assembly may, without laying il tax, bor-
row AN amount never to exceed fifty thousand
dollars 70 meet temporary deficiencies in the
treasury, and may contract debts to any
amount that may hc necessary for the defense
OF the state.
eli
tuition contained shall deprive the General As
Scmby 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
i'll the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a
sum OF money not exceeding four hundred
thousand dollars each year, to he expended
only IN the construction and maintenance of
public roads and highways under and in accord
ancC with such regulations aS the General As
scmhly may from time to time prescribe.
SECTION >. And he il further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the aforcgoing sec
tion hereby proposed aS an amendment to the
constitution shall hc, at the next general clcc-
tion held i'll this state, submitted To the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adoption
or rejection, in pursuance of the directions
contained i'll Article II Of the Constitution of
TINS state, ana at the said general election tho
vote on said proposed amendment to the Con
stltutlOu shall bo 10y hallOt, and upon each hal
lot shall be printed the words, "Fur Constitu
tiOnaI Amendments, and against COnSti-
tutiOnal Amendments" as now prescribed by
law, and Immediately after said election due
return shall be made to the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amendment,
aS directed 10y the said fourteenth Article of
the Constitution.
This is to certify, That this cngroSscd docu-
mcnt proposing AN Amendment To the COnSt-
tuition of the State of Maryland, the original
of which was passed by the Senate by yeas and
nays, more than three tfths af all the members
elected voting in the affirmative, ON March 2,
1904
SPENCER G. JONES,
President of the Senate.
RoBERT Moss,
Secretary of the Senate.