Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-08-08

a. No debt shall be hereafter contracted
by the General Assembly unless such debt
shall be authorized BY law providing for the
collection Of an annual tax or taxes sufhcIent
to pay the interest on such debt as il falls
due. and also TO discharge the principal thereof
within fifteen years from the time Of contract.
ing the same, and the taxes laid for this pur
pose shall not be repealed OF applied 10 any
other object until the said debt and interest
thereon shall he fully discharged. The credit
Of the State shalt not in any manner be given
OF loaned to. or in aid Of any Individual ssso.
eiation or corporation; nor shall the General
Assembly nave the power in any mode to in
volve the State in the construction Of works
Of internal Improvement. nor in granting any
aid thereto which shall involve the faith OF
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 have
had no direct advantage from such works a.
have been heretofore aided by the State; and
provided that such aid. advances or appfopria-
tions shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum
Of hve hundred thousand dollars And they
snail not use or appropriate the proceeds Of
the internal Improvement companies or Of the
state tax. now levied. or which may hereafter
be levied to pay of the public debt tor) to
any other purpose until the interest and debt
are fully paid or the sinking fund shall be
equal 10 the amount Of the outstanding debt;
but the General Assembly may, without laying
tax, borrow an amount never TO exceed fifty
thousand dollars TO meet temporary defci-
enetes in the Treasury, and may contract debts
TO any amount that may be necessary for the
defence Of the State. And provided further
that nothing in this section shall be construed
70 prohibit the raising Of funds for the pur.
pose OF aiding compromising in such manner
or way as the General Assembly Of the State
shall deem proper those citizens Of the State
who have served, with honor. their country
and State in time Of war; provided, however.
that such action Of the General Assembly shall
be effective only when submitted to and APP
nFONff a WI af fkn Il = 1Na
at the General Election next following the
enactment of such legislation.
SEC. 2. fnd be IL further enacted by the
authority dfoyrsaid, That the said aforegoing
seehon hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution, Shall, at the next general
! election for members Of Congress held In this
State, be submitted TO the legal and qualified
voters Of the State for adoption or rejection,
in pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article u Of the Constitution OF this State
ard at the said general election the vote on
the said proposed amendment to the Censtitu-
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot,
there shall be printed the following synopsis
OF said amendment under the caption of "Con-
sttntional Amendment Providing For Aid Or
Adjusted Compensation To War Veterans"
] his amsndment removes the prohibition now
| n the State Constitution which prevents the
State from pledgiBg its credit for the raising
Of monies which could be used for the aid or
as adjusted compensation to those citizens CT
the State who with honor, served their eoun.
Try or otate IN time OF war; and upon each
ballot there shall also be printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment and
Against the Constitutional Amendment" as
now provided by law, and Immediately after
said election due returns shall be made TO the
Governor Of the vote for and against said pro-
posed amendment as directed by said Four
teenth Article Of the Constitution and further
proceedings had In accordance with said Article
Fourteen.
Approved April 3, 1924.
| Now. Therefore, I. Albert c. Richie, Gov.
ernoI Of the State Of Maryland in pursuance
Of the direction contained in Section i Of
/ Article IA Of the Constitution of MARYLAND,
/ do hereby order and direct that this pro.la-
nation containing full, true and correct copy
/ OF the text Of said Chapters III and 527 Of
the Acts Of the General Assembly Of MARYLAND
OF 1924, be published in at least two news
papers in each of the counties Of the State
where SO many may be published and where
not more than one may be published then in
that newspaper. and in three newspapers pub
lished in the City Of Baltimore one Of which
shall be published in the German language,
once week for at least three months next
preceding the general election to be held in
the State Of Maryland on Tuesday the 9Th day
| Of November, 1924, at which election the said
proposed amendments to the Constitution shall
be submitted in form and manner prescribed by
the General Assembly, to the legal and quail
fed voters Of the State for their adoption OF
rejection.
| Given under my hand and
| The Great the Great Seal Of the State
| Seal OF the Of Maryland. Done at the
| \ State Of City Of Annapolis. this
| Maryland. 18th day Of July, nineteen
| l. j hundred and twenty-four