Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-09-19
PROCLAMATION.
PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE,
1880.


/ WHEREAS, at the January Session Of thu
/ General Assembly Of Maryland. held in The
year 1929, two Acts were passed. to-wit
Chapter 1873 proposing an amendment tC
the Constitution Of Maryland, title Treasury
/ Department, TO authorize deputies in the
Treasury Department TO sign checks and
warrants; and Chapter 34S. proposing ar
amendment to the Constitution Of Mary.
land. title Legislative Department" reeu-
lsting the compensation of members Of
both Houses Of the General Assembly oil
Maryland in words and figures as follows
CHAPTER 1873.
An Act TO propose an amendment to
Sections and of Article vi of the Con-
stitution Of the State Of Maryland. title
Treasury Department" so as to confer
upon the Legislature power to authorize
deputies, employed in the Treasury Depart
ment. TO sign. countersign and grant war
rants, and to sign, countersign and issue
checks for the withdrawal of funds from
the State Treasury under regulations pre-
scribed by the Legislature and providing
for the submission of said amendment to
the legally qualified voters of the State for
adoption or rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland. (three-ffths of all
Of the Members of both Houses concurring) },
That an amendment to Sections and 8
Of Article vi of the Constitution of the
State of Maryland. title Treasury Depart
ment. be, and the same is hereby pro-
posed. the said amendment. il adopted by
the legally qualified voters Of the State. as
herein provided, to become a part Of said
Constitution, and the said Sections as
amended to read as follows:
2. The Comptroller shall have the general
superintendent of the fiscal affairs of the
State; he shall digest and prepare plans
for the improvement and management Of
the revenue. and for the support Of the
public credit; prepare and report estimates
of the revenue and expenditures of the
State; superintend and force the prompt
collection of all taxes and revenue; adjust
and settle. on terms prescribed by law.
with delinquent collectors and receivers of
taxes and State revenue; preserve all pub
lie accounts and decide on the forms of
keeping and stating accounts. He. or such
OF his deputies as may be authorized to do
so by the Legislature, shall grant. under
regulations prescribed by law. all warrants
for money 10 be paid out of the Treasury,
in pursuance of appropriations by law, and
countersign all checks drawn by the Treas
urer upon any bank or banks 10 which the
moneys of the State, may. from time to
time, be deposited. He shall prescribe
formalities of the transfer of stock, or other
evidence ofthe State,debt. and countersign
the same. without which such evidence
shall not be valid; he shall make to the
General Assembly full reports of all his
proceedings. and Of the State of the Treas
ury Department within ten days after the
commencement Of each Session; and per-
form such other duties as shall be pre-
scribed by law.
8. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys
of the State, and, until otherwise prescribed
by law, deposit them. as soon as received,
to the credit of the State, in such bank or
banks as he may, from time to time, with
the approval Of the Governor, select (the
said bank or banks giving security, salts
factory to the Governor, for the safekeep-
ing and forthcoming, when required of said
deposits). and he or such of his deputies
as may be authorized to do SO by the Leg
islature shall disburse the same for the
purposes of the State according to law, upon
warrants drawn by the Comptroller, or his
duly authorized deputy, and on checks
countersigned by the Comptroller, or his
duly authorized deputy, and not otherwise.
The Treasurer or such of his deputies as
may be authorized to do so by the I.egisla-
ture shall take receipts for all moneys paid
from the Treasury Department and receipt
for moneys received by him shall be en-
dorsed upon warrants signed by the Comp
troller, or such deputy as may be authorized
to do SO by law, without which warrants,
so signed. no acknowledgment of money
received into the Treasury shall be valid !;
and upon warrants issued by the Comp
trOller, or his duly authorized deputy, the
Treasurer shall make arrangements for the
payment of the interest of the public debt,
and for the purpose thereof, on account of
the sinking fund. Every bond, certificate,
or other evidence of the debt of the State
shall be signed by the Treasurer, and cOun-
tersigned by the Comptroller; and no new
certificate or other evidence intended to re-
place another shall be issued until the old
one shall be delivered to the Treasurer,
and authority executed in due form for the
transfer of the same filed in his office, and
the transfer accordingly made on the books
thereof, and the certificate Gr other evil
dence cancelled; but the Legislature may
make provision for the loss of certificates,
or other evidences Of debt; and may pre-
scribe. by law, the manner in which the
Treasurer shall receive and keep the moneys
of the State.
Section 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the afore-
going sections. as amended. shall be, at
the next General Election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, nineteen hundred and thirty,
submitted to the legally qualified voters OF
the State for adoption or rejection in pur-
suance Of the directions contained in Arti-
Gle xiv of the Constitution of this State,
and at said General Election the vote on
the proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be by ballot. and upon each
ballot there shall be printed the following
synopsis Of said amendment. under the
caption of: