Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-09
PROCLAMATION
Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the State 1924

81. No debt shall be hereafter contracted
by the General Assembly unless such debt
shall be authorized by law providing tor the
collection of an annual tax or taxes sufficient
to pay the interest on such debt a. It 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pose shall not be repealed or applied to any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 asso:
citation or corporation; nor shall the General
Assembly have 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 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 Marys, Charles and Calvert, which have
had no direct advantage from such works as
have been heretofore aided by the State; and
provided that such aid, advances or appropriar
tons 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 hereafter
be levied, to pay off the public debt (or) 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, borrow an amount never to exceed fifty
thousand dollars to meet temporary dehc-
encies 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
to prohibit the raising of funds for the pur-
pose Of aiding compensating 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 ~.
proved by vote of the people of the State
at the General Election next following the
enactment of such legislation.
Sec. 2. And be i further enacted by the
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution shall 1t the next general
State, be submitted to the legal and qualified
voters of the State for adoption or rejection,
in pursuance of the directions contained in
Article ID of the Constitution of this State,
ard at the said general election the vote
the said proposed amendment to the C6nstitu-
ton shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot,
there shall be printed the following synopsis
of said amendment under the caption of econ
stitutional Amendment Providing For Aid Or
Adjusted Compensation To War Veterans"
This amendment removes the prohibition now
in the State Constitution which prevents the
State from pledging its credit for the raising
of monies which could be used for the aid or
as adjusted compensation to those citizens of
the State who, with honor, served their coun-
try, or State in time Of war; and upon each
ballot there shall also be printed the word:
..For the Constitutional Amendment and
Against the Constitutional Amendment" a.
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 9, 1924.
Now, Therefore. I. Albert c. Richie, Gov.
ernor of the State of Maryland, in pursuance
Article IA of the Constitution of Maryland.
do hereby order and direct that this procla.
nation containing a full. true and correct copy
ct the text Of said Chapters ~ and 327 Of
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
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
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.
he'd voters OF the State for their adoption or
rejection.
a. y 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
hundred and twenty-four.
ALBERT c. RICHIE,
BY the Governor:
F. BROOKE LEE,
Secretary of State. -.