460 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3, Sec. 36]
such notes must only be made to provide for appropriations
already made by the General Assembly. The General As-
sembly may contract debts to any amount that may be
necessary for the defense of the State. And provided further
that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit
the raising of funds for the purpose of aiding or com-
pensating in such manner or way as the General Assembly
of the State shall deem proper, those citizens of the State
who have served, with honor, their Country and State in
time of War; provided, however, that such action of the
General Assembly shall be effective only when submitted
to and approved by a vote of the people of the State at the
General Election next following the enactment of such
legislation.] (1)
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 rendered after that
date, that the salary or compensation 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 officers 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."
SEC. 35A. Nothing in this Constitution shall exempt the
salary or compensation of any judge or other public officer
from the imposition by the General Assembly of a non-
discriminatory tax upon income. (3)
SEC. 36. No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be au-
thorized by the General Assembly.
SEC. 37. The General Assembly shall pass no Law pro-
viding for payment by this State, for Slaves emancipated
from servitude in this State; but they shall adopt such
measures, as they may deem expedient, to obtain from the
United States, compensation for such Slaves, and to receive,
and distribute the same, equitably, to the persons entitled.
i This amendment was submitted by Chapter 234, Acts of 1959, to be voted upon
by the voters in November 1960.
2 Thus amended by Chapter 416, Acts of 1957, ratified November 4 1958.
'Thus added by Chapter 771, Acts of 1939, ratified November 5, 1940.
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