COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	authorizes or regulates the maximum amount
	of indebtedness which may be incurred by
	the code county. Public local laws enacted
	by the General Assembly under this section
	prevail over any public local laws enacted
	by the code county under other sections
	in this Article.
	See. 9. A code county shall not levy	See Sections 7.01-7,04, beginning at p. 89.
	any type of tax, license fee, franchise tax,
	or fee which was not in effect or authorized
	in the code county at' the time it came
	under the provisions of this Article, until
	an express authorization of the General
	Assembly has been enacted for this pur-
	pose by a general law which in its terms
	and effect applies alike to all code counties
	in one or more of the classes provided for
	in Section 5 of this Article.
	Sec. 10. All laws enacted by the General
	Assembly and in effect when this Article
	was added to the Constitution shall remain
	in effect until amended or repealed under
	this Constitution. Every public local law
	enacted, amended, or repealed by a county
	under the provisions of this Article pre-
	vails over the previous public local law,
	except to the extent it is subject to an
	applicable law enacted by the General As-
	sembly.
	ARTICLE XII. PUBLIC WORKS.
	Section 1. The Governor, the Comp-	See Section 4.25, Board of Review, p. 32.
	troller of the Treasury, and the Treasuier,
	shall constitute the Board of Public Works
	in this State. They shall keep a journal
	of their proceedings, and shall hold regular
	sessions in the City of Annapolis, on the
	first Wednesday in January, April, July and
	October, in each year, and oftener, if neces-
	sary; at which sessions they shall hear and
	determine such matters as affect the Public
	Works of the State, and as the General
	Assembly may confer upon them the power
	to decide.
	Sec. 2. They shall exercise a diligent
	and faithful supervision of all Public Works
	in which the State may be interested as
	Stockholder or Creditor, and shall appoint
	the Directors in every Railroad and Canal
	Company, in which the State has the legal
	power to appoint Directors, which said
	Directors shall represent the State in all
	meetings of the Stockholders of the respec-
	tive Companies for which they are ap-
	pointed or elected. They shall require the

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