Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-09-12

"a. No debt shall be hereafter contracted
BY the General Assembly unless such debt
shall be au,hofised BY a law providing fer The
collection Of an annual tax Of taxes sufficient
70 pay the Interest on such debt as il falls
due. and also 70 discharge the principal thereof
within fifteen years from the time Of contract
ing the same; and the taxes laid for this puf-
pose shall not be repealed or applied 10 any
other object until the said deb, and interest
thereon shall he fully discharged. The credit
Of the State shail not in any manner be given
OF loaned to, or in aid Of any individual asso-
ciation 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 o.
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 as
have been heretofore aided by the State; and
provided that such aid, advances or appropgia
tions shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum
Of hve 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 leried. to pay of the public debt forl to
any other purpose until the interest and debt
arc fniy pafd or the sinking fund shall be
equal to the amount Of the outstanding debt;
but the General Assembly may. without laying
tax, borrow an amount never to exceed ttiy
thousand dollars to meet temporary dehci-
eneics in the Treasury, and may contract debts
to any amoant that may be necessary for the
defence Of the State. And provided further
that nothing 10 this section shall be construed
70 prohibit the raising Of fuatis for the pur-
pose of aiding or eampensstins in such manner
Or way as the General Assembly Of the State
shall deem proper, those citizens Of the stats
who have served, with homer, 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 ap-
proved by a vote Of the people Of the State
at The General Election next following the
enactment Of such legislation.
Sac. 2. And BE- il further snaeisd BY the
aAthorfy aforesaid, That the said aforegoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution, shall, al the next general
election for members OF Congress held in this
Stale, be submitted to the legal and qualified
voters Of the State for adoption or rejection,
in pursuance Of the directions contained in
Article "a Of the Constitution OF this State.
ard at the said general election the vote on
the said proposed amendment to the Constitu'
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot,
there shall be printed the following synopsy
Of said amendment under the eaPiioiisof Con.
stitlitienal5 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
ef monies which could be used for the aid or
as adjusted compensation TO those citizens Of
,he State who, with honor, served their eoun'
/ try or State 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 sitef
said election due returns shall be made to the
l 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, /. Albert C Richie. Gov.
ernor Of the State Of Maryland, in pursuance
Of the direction contained in Section / Of
4 Article IA Of the Constitution of Maryland,
do hereby order and direct that this proela-
nation containing full true and correct copy
! Of the text of said Chapters ~ and j27 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 50 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 Bstimere, one Of which
shall be published in the German language,
once a week for at least three months next
preceding the general election to be held in
| the State Of Maryland on Tuesday the 4th 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 70 the legal and quail
fed voters Of the State for their adoption or
rejection.
i Given under my hand and
| The Great the Great Seal Of the State
i J Seal Of the Of Maryland. Done at the
/ { State Of City Of Annapolis, this
4 Maryland 18Th day Of July. nineteen
4 1 hundred and twenty-four.
ALBERT c. RITcIIIE,
By the Governor:
4 L. BROOKE LEE,