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PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
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CONSTITUTION OF 1867
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Section 6.16. Capital Expenditures.
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Appropriations for capital projects to be
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financed by the creation of indebtedness of
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the State shall be embodied in a supplemen-
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tary appropriation bill which shall contain
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an irrevocable pledge of the full faith and
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credit and unlimited taxing power of the
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State. Any such appropriation that is in ad-
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dition to or exceeds the capital appropria-
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tions submitted to the General Assembly by
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the governor shall provide for a tax, direct
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or indirect, sufficient to pay the debt service
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required thereby, to be levied and collected
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as prescribed in the supplementary appropri-
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ation bill.
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Lottery
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Section 6.17. Lottery.
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Art. III, sec. 36. No Lottery grant shall
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Neither the State nor any unit of local
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ever hereafter be authorized by the General
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government shall operate or authorize a lot-
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Assembly.
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tery for the purpose of financing any ex-
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penses of government.
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ARTICLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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Counties
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ARTICLE XI. CITY OF BALTIMORE.
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Section 7.01. Establishment of Counties.
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Section 1. The Inhabitants of the City of
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County shall mean Baltimore City, each of
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Baltimore, qualified by Law to vote in said
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the twenty- three existing counties, and other
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city for members of the House of Delegates,
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counties established pursuant to this Consti-
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shall on the Tuesday after the first Monday
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tution. The General Assembly may provide
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of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-
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by law for the establishment, merger, or dis-
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nine, and on the same day and month in
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solution of counties, or for the alteration of
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every second year thereafter, elect a person
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their boundaries. No such law shall become
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to be Mayor of the City of Baltimore, who
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effective until submitted to the voters of
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shall have such qualifications, receive such
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each county affected and approved by a ma-
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compensation, discharge such duties, and
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jority of those voting on the question in
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have such powers as are now, or may here-
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each county affected.
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after be prescribed by Law; and the term
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of whose office shall commence on the third
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Wednesday in the November of the year of
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his election, and shall continue for two
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years, and until his successor shall have
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qualified.
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ARTICLE XIII. NEW COUNTIES.
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Section 1. The General Assembly may
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provide, by Law, for organizing new coun-
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ties, locating and removing county seats,
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and changing county lines; but no new
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county shall be organized without the con-
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sent of the majority of the legal voters
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residing within the limits proposed to be
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formed into said new county; and whenever
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a new county shall be proposed to be
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formed out of portions of two or more
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counties, the consent of a majority of the
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legal voters of such part of each of said
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