Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-10-31
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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 1893 proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of Maryland, title "Trens-
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-
lating the compensation of the members of
both Houses OF the General Assembly of
Maryland in words and figures as follows:
CHAPTER 1873
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
lions 2 and 3 of Article vi of the Con-
Btitution 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, eountersign and grant
warrants, and to sign, countersign and
issue checks for the withdrawal of funds
from the State Treasury under regula-
tons 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 It enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, (tkrce-fffhs of all of the
Members of both of the Houses eoncHrriHg),
AHuL dn dlHeuuHeHl 10 DeCtlOuS anu
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:
@ The Comptroller shall have the gen.
eral superintendent of the fiscal affairs of
the State; he shall digest and prepare
plans for 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 recelv-
ers OF taxes and State revenue; preserve
all public accounts; and decide on the
forms OF keeping and stating accounts. He,
or such of his 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 ap-
preparations by law, and eountersign 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
dence shall not be valid; he shall make to
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 do
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 do
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 such
deputy as may be authorized to do so by
law, without which warrants, so signed,
no acknowledgment Of money received into
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 the
purchase thereof, on account Of the sink
ing fund Every bond, certificate, or other
evidence Of the debt of the State shall be
signed by the Treasurer, and counter
signed by the Comptroller; and no new
certificate or other evidence intended to
replace another shall be issued until the
old one shall be delivered to the Treas
urer, and authority executed in due form
for the transfer of the same. fled in his
Office, and the transfer accordingly made
on the books thereof, andy the certificate
or other evidence cancelled; but the Leg
islature may make provisions for the loss
Of certificates, or other evidence of the
debt; and may prescribe, by law the man
ner In which the Treasurer shall receive
and keep the moneys Of the State.
Sec. 2. And be il further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing Sec
tions as amended, shall be, at the next
General Election to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
Der, nineteen hundred and thirty, sub
mitted to the legally qualified voters Of the
State for adoption or rejection in pursu
ance of the directions contained in Article
XIV Of the Constitution of this State, and
at said General Election the vote on the
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot. and upon each ballot
there shall be printed the following synop
sis of said amendment. under the caption
of:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
AMENDING SECTIONS 2 AND
OF ARTICLE VI"