The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-03
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
CHAPTER 81.

OhAEIEh W.
AN ACT to amend Section "a of Article 8 of
the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of MARYLAND (three-ffths 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 3 of said Constitution.
SECTION "a. No debt shall be hereafter
contracted by the General Assembly unless
such debt shall be authorized by a 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 to discharge the
principal thereof within fifteen years from
the time of contracting the same, and the
taxes laid for this purpose shall not be re-
pealed 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 Assem-
bly, have the power in any mode to involve
the State in the construction of works of
internal improvement, nor in granting any
aid thereto which shall involve the faith or
credit of the State; nor make any appropri-
alton therefor, except in aid Of the con-
struction of works of internal Improvement
in the counties of st. Mary's, Charles and
Calvert, which had no direct advantage
from such work as have been heretofore
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
internal improvement companies or of the
State tax now levied or which may here
after be levied to pay off the public debt,
to any other purpose until the interest 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 a tax, borrow an
amount never to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars to meet temporary deficiencies in the
treasury, and may contract debts to any
amount that may be necessary for the de-
Tense of the State.
But nothing in this section or in this
Constitution contained shall deprive the
General Assembly of the power to app0rtiOn
! 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, a sum of money not
exceeding four hundred thousand dollars
each year, to be expended only in the con-
struction 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 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution shall be, at the next
general election held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the directions contained in
! Article IA of the Constitution of this State,
and at the said general election the vote on
said proposed amendment to the COnstitu-
ton shall be by ballot, and upon each bal
lot shall be printed the words: "For Con-
stitutional Amendment" and against
Constitutional Amendment" as now pre-
scribed 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 by the
said fourteenth article of the Constitution.
The said polling places for said Election
will be open at o'clock in the morning Of
said day, and be kept open until o'clock
in the afternoon of the same day, at which
time the polls will be closed.
By order
JOHN w. HUMM,
JOSEPH F. EISENHAUER.
SAMUEL v. DOLL,
The Board of Supervisors of Elections for
Frederick County, Maryland
H. DORSEY ETCHIsoN, Clerk