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provided by law, the State Treasurer is authorized to make and sell short-term notes for temporary emergencies, but 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. 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 i Thus amended by Chapter 416, Acts of 1957, ratified November 4. 1958. ' Thus added by Chapter 771, Acts of 1939, ratified November S. 1940. |
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