Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-08-29
CLAMATION
Proposing Amendments to
the Constitution Of the
State, 1880

WHEREAS, at the January Session OF
the General Assembly Of Maryland. held in
the year 1929 two Acts were passed, to wit
Chapter 1888 proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of Maryland, title Treas
ury Department" to authorize deputies in
the Treasury Department to sign checks
and warrants; and Chapter 34S proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of Mary
land, title Legislative Department" regu-
latlng the compensation of the members of
both Houses of the General Assembly of
Maryland; In words and figures as follows
CHAPTER 1913
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
lions and Of Article vi of the Con-
sttutiOn of the State Of Maryland. title
Treasury Department" SO as to confer
upon the Legislature power to authorize
deputies. employed in the Treasury De-
partment, to sign, cOuntersign and grant
warrants, and to sign. counterslgn and
Issue checks for the withdrawal OF funds
from the State Treasury under regula-
lions prescribed by the Legislature; and
providing for the submission of said
amendment to the legally qualified voters
OF the State for adoption or rejection.
SECTION 1. Be IL enacted BY the General
Assembly of MdryloHd. (tI,ree-ffihs of oil of the
Members of both of the Houses eoncnrrinO),
That an amendment to Sections and )
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, If 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 gen
eral superintendent of the fiscal affairs of
the State; he shall digest and prepare
plans Tor the improvement and manage
ment 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 enforce the
prompt collection of all taxes and revenues
adjust and settle, on terms prescribed by
law, with delinquent collectors and receiv-
ers of taxes and State revenue: preserve
all public accounts; and decide on the
forms OF keeping and stating accounts. He,
or such or MS deputies as may be author
lied to do so by the Legislature, shall
grant, under regulations prescribed by
Law, all warrants for money to be paid
out of the Treasury, in pursuance of APP
preparations by law, and countersign all
checks drawn by the Treasurer upon any
bank or banks in which the moneys of the
State, may, from time to time, be de-
posted. He shall prescribe the formal
tiles OF the transfer of stock, or other
evidence of the State debt, and counter
sign the same, without which such evil
utuCe nut De NE snail make 10
the General Assembly full reports of all
his proceedings, and Of the State of the
Treasury Department within ten days after
the commencement of each Session; and
perform such other duties as shall be pre-
scribed by law.
3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys
Of the State, and, until otherwise pre-
scribed 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 1.-THE said bank or banks giving secur-
ity, satisfactory to the Governor. for the
safekeeping and forthcoming, when re-
Quired OF said deposits), and he or such
OF his deputies as may be authorized to dc
so by the Legislature shall disburse the
same for the purposes Of the State accord.
ing to law, upon warrants drawn by the
Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy
and on checks countersigned by the Comp.
troller, or his duly authorized deputy, and
not otherwise. The Treasurer or such Of
his deputies as may be authorized to de-
so by the Legislature shall take receipts
for all moneys paid from the Treasury
Department; and receipt for moneys re
ceived by him shall be endorsed upon war
rants signed by the Comptroller or sucl
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 war
rants issued by the Comptroller. or his
duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer shall
make arrangements for the payment of the
interest of the public debt and for tn,
purchase thereof, on account OF the sink
ing fund Every bond. certificate, OF. othei
evidence of the debt of the State shall b(
signed by the Treasurer, and counter
signed by the Comptroller; and no new
certificate or other evidence intended Il
replace another shall be issued until tbs
old one shall be delivered to the Treas
urer, and authority executed in due form
for the transfer of the same filed in hi,
office, and the transfer accordingly madt
on the books thereof. and the certificate
or other evidence cancelled; but the Leg
islature may make provisions for the losi
OF certificates, or other evidence of thu
debt; and may prescribe, by law, the man
ner in which the Treasurer shall receive
and keep the moneys of the State.
SEC. 2. lind be it further enacted by tn
authority aforesaid, That .the aforegoing sec
tons, as amended. shall De, at the mex
General Election to be held on the frs
Tuesday after the first Monday in Noyem
Der, nineteen hundred and thirty, sub
mitted to the legally qualified voters of tn,
State for adoption or rejection in pursu
ance of the directions contained in Articli
XIV Of the Constitution of this State, ant
Mt said General Election the vote on tn,
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot and upon each balIo
there shall be printed the following synop
sis of said amendment. under the caption
of:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT