The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-31
PROCLAMATION
Proposing Amendments to the COnsti-
tuition 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: Chap
ter 1873 proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of Maryland, title Treasury Depart
ment," to authorize deputies in the Treasury
Department to sign checks and warrants and
Chapter 348, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of Maryland, title Legislative De-
partment," regulating the compensation of the
members of both Houses of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland; in words and figures as fol-
lows:
CHAPTER 1873.
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sections
2 and of Article vi of the Constitution Of
the State of Maryland, title Treasury De-
partment," so as to confer upon the Legisla-
ture power to authorize deputies, employed
in the Treasury Department, to sign, coun-
tersign and grant warrants, and to sign,
countersign and issue checks for the with
drawal of funds from the State Treasury UNI
der regulations prescribed by the Legisa-
ture; and providing for the submission of
said amendment to the legally qualified Vot-
ers of the State for adoptio nor rejection
Section l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, (three-fifths of all of the
Members of both of the Houses concurring),
That an amendment to Sections 2 and of Ar
ticle vi of the Constitution of the State OF
Maryland, title, Treasury Department be and
the same is hereby proposed, the said amend
ment, if adopted by the legally qualified voters
of the State, as herein provided, to become
part of said Constitution. and the said Sections
as amended to read follows:
2. The Comptroller shall have the general
superintendence of the fiscal affairs of the
State; he shall digest and prepare plans for
the improvement and management OF the rev.
enue, 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
revenue adjust and settle, on terms prescribed
by law, with delinquent collectors and
receivers of taxes and State revenue; preserve
TT,h the forms
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 to
be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of
appropriations 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 deposited. He shall pre-
scribe the formalities of the transfer of stock,
or other evidence of the State debt, and coun-
tersign the same, without which such evidence
shall not be valid; he shall make to the Cen
eral Assembly full reports of all his proceed
ment within ten days after the commencement
of each Session. and perform such other du-
ties as shall be prescribed by law.
8. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys
of the State, and, until otherwise prescribed by
law, deposit them, 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
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 pur-
poses of the State according to law, upon war
rants drawn by the Comptroller. or his duly
authorized deputy, and on checks countersigned
by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized dep
uty, and not otherwise. The Treasurer or such
of his deputies may be authorized to do SO
by the Legislature shall take receipts for all
moneys paid from the Treasury Department;
and receipt for moneys received by him shall
be endorsed upon warrants signed by the
Comptroller, or such deputy as may be author
lied to do SO by law, without which warrants,
so signed, no Acknowledgement of money re-
ceived into the Treasury shall be valid; and
upon warrants issued by the Comptroller, or
his duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer shall
make arrangements for the payment of the in
terest of the public debt, and for the purchase
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 countersigned by the Comptroller; and no
new certificate or other evidence intended 10
replace another shall be issued until the old
one shall be delivered to the Treasurer, and
authority executed in due form for the trans
fer of the same filed in his office, and the
transfer accordingly made on the books there
of, and the certificate other evidence can
celled; but the Legislature may make provis-
ions for the loss of certificates or other evil
dences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law,
the manner in which the Treasurer shall re-
ceive and keep the moneys of the State.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the au-
thority aforesaid, That the aforegoing sections
as amended, shall be, at the next general cleo
ton 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 pursuance of the directions contained in Ar
ticle XIV of the Constitution of this State,
and at said general election the vote on the
amendment to the Constitution shall