Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-08-15
PRO CLAMATI 10 N
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 1873 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 3iS. 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 of Article vi of the Con-
stituti0n OF the State Of Maryland, title
Treasury Department" SO MS to confer
upon the Legislature power to authorize
deputies, employed in the Treasury De-
partment, to sign, countersign and grant
warrants, and to sign. countersign 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 /. Be II enacted BY the General
assembly of Moryidrd, (thrceffths of oil of the
Members of both of the Houses eonenrrin0)
That an amendment to Sections and 5
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 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 receiv-
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 up-
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
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.
= 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 such
of his deputies as mag be authorized to dc
SO by the Legislature shall disburse th'
same for the purposes of the State accord
ing to law, upon warrants drawn by til,
Comptroller. or his duly authorized deputy
and on checks countersigned by the Comp
troller, or his duly authorized deputy, ant
not otherwise. The Treasurer or such o
his deputies as may be authorized to d.
SO by the Legislature shall take receipts
for all moneys paid from the Treasur!
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
ne acknowledgment of money received int
the Treasury shall be valid; and upon war
rants issued by the Comptroller. or hi
duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer shall
make arrangements for the payment of tn
interest of the public debt and for TIL
purchase thereof. on account of the sink
ing fund. Every bond. certificate, or othe
evidence of the debt of the State shall b.
signed by the Treasurer, and counter
signed by the Comptroller; and no nev
certificate or other evidence intended t
replace another shall be issued until tn
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 mad
on the books thereof, and the certihcat
or other evidence cancelled; but the Leg
islature may make provisions for the los
of certificates, or other evidence OF tn
debt; and hay prescribe by law, the man
ner in which the Treasurer shall receiv
and keep the moneys of the State.
Sec. 3 4nd be it further enacted BY til
authority aforesaid, That the aforegoing sec
tions, as amended, shall ne, at the mex
General Election to be held on the frs
Tuesday after the first Monday in Noyem
Der, nineteen hundred and thirty, sub
mittcd to the legally qualified voters of TIL
State for adoption or rejection in pursu
ance of the directions contained in Articl
NV of the Constitution of this State ant
at said General Election the vote on tn
proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be by ballot and upon each ball0
there shall be printed the following synop
sis of said amendment, under the eaptio
of:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
AMENDING SECTIONS 2 AND
3 OF ARTICLE VI"