The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-08-02
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
Atlanta, July 20, 1912.

at its session in 1911 proposed al
amendment to the Constitution o.
this State as set forth in an act ap
proved August 10, 1911, to-wit:
An Act prop 1sing an amendment
to the third Section of the seventh
Article of the Constitution BY
striking therefrom the W 0 d
Casual Deficiencies of Revenue
and substituting therefor the words
''such temporary deficit as may
exist in the Treasury in any year
from necessary delay in collecting
the taxes of the years" and by
striking the words 1.-TWO Hundred
Thousand Dollars" and substitu-
ting in lieu thereof "Five Hun
.dred Thousand Dollars, and any
loan made for this purpose shall
iobe repaid out of the taxes levied
for the year in which the loan is
/ made.D
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
/, General Assembly, that it shall be
and is hereby proposed to amend
the Constitution Of Georgia in the
third Section of the seventh Arti-
Gle so as to strike from Paragraph
one the words Casual Deficiencies
of Revenue" and substituting in
lieu thereof the words, such tenn
porary deficit as may exist in the
Treasury in any year from neces-
sary delay in collecting the taxes
of that year" and by further strik-
irg from said Section the words
1.-TWO Hundred Thousand Dollars"
and substituting in lien thereof,
"Fiye Hundred Thousand Dollars
and any loan made for this purpose
shall be repaid out of the taxes
levied for the year in which the
loan is made" so that the first
Paragraph of said Section when
amended shall read as follows:
ssNo debt shall be contracted by
or On behalf OF the State, except
to supply such temporary deficit
as may exist III the Treasury in
any year from necessary delay in
collecting the taxes of that year,
to repel invasion, suppress insur-
rection, and defend the State ia
time of war, or to pay the exist
ing public debt; but the debt Great
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall not exceed, IN the aggregate,
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars,
and any loan made for this purpose
shall be repaid out of the taxes
levied for the year in which the
loan is made"
Sec. 3, Be it further enacted,
That whenever the above proposed
amendment to the Constitution
shall be agreed to by two-thirds
az the members elected to each oil
the two Houses of the Genera
Assemble and the same has beenen
tered upon their Journals witt
the hayes and the hayes takei
thereon, the Governor shall caus'
said amendment to be published il
Mt least two newspapers in eacl
Congressional District in this Stat
for the period of two months mex
preceding the time of holding tn
next general election.
Sec 8. Be it further enacted
That the above proposed amend
m at shall te submitted for rat
ticalion or rejection to the elector
of this State at the next geners
election 10 be held after publics
ton, as provided in the secon
Section of this Act in the sewers
ELECTION districts of this State,
which election every person sha
be qualified to vote who IS eRtile
to vote for members of the gene
al Assembly. All persons votin
at said election IA favor of auop
ing the proposed amendment
the Constitution shall have write
or printed on their ballots Il
words, aFor amendment to Co
stitution authorizing Temporal
loans, . and all persons opposed
49, o3o,,fi0n of said amendmel