PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND

To be submitted to the voters for ratification or rejection
at the General Election to be held in November, 1958.

CHAPTER 416
(Senate Bill 514)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 35 of Article
3 of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Legislative
Department", providing that the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore may increase or diminish the salary or com-
pensation of any of its appointed public officers during
their term of office, relating generally to such authoriza-
tion and submitting this amendment to the qualified
voters of the State for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (Three-fifths of all members elected to each of
the two Houses concurring), That the following section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Sec-
tion 35 of Article 3 of the Constitution of Maryland, title
"Legislative Department", the same, if adopted by the legal
and qualified voters of the State as herein provided, to be-
come Section 35 of Article 3 of the Constitution of Mary-
land.

SEC. 35. No extra compensation shall be granted or al-
lowed by the General Assembly to any public Officer, Agent,
Servant or Contractor, after the service shall have been
rendered, or the contract entered into, nor shall the salary
or compensation of any public officer be increased or dimin-
ished during his term of office, Provided, however, FROM
AND AFTER JANUARY 1, 1956, FOR SERVICES REN-
DERED AFTER THAT DATE, that the salary or compen-
sation of any appointed public officer of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore may be increased or diminished
at any time during his term of office; except that as to offi-
cers in the Classified City Service, when the salary of any
appointed public officer of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall be so increased or decreased, it shall not
again be increased or decreased, as the case may be, during
the term of such public officer.