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SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury
of the State, by any order or resolution, nor except in
accordance with an appropriation by Law; and every such
Law shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the
object, to which it shall be applied; provided, that nothing
herein contained, shall prevent the General Assembly from
placing a contingent fund at the disposal of (he Executive,
who shall report to the General Assembly, at each Session,
the amount expended, and the purooses to which it was
applied. An accurate statement of the receipts and expen-
ditures of the public money, shall be attached to, and
published with the Laws, after each regular Session of the
General Assembly.

SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local,
or special Laws, in any of the following enumerated cases,
viz.: For extending the time for the collection of taxes;
granting divorces; changing the name of any person; pro-
viding for the sale of real estate, belonging to minors, or
other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by execu-
tors, administrators, guardians or trustees; giving effect to
informal, or invalid deeds or wills; refunding money paid
into the State Treasury, or releasing persons from their
debts, or obligations to the State, unless recommended by
the Governor, or officers of the Treasury Department. And
the General Assembly shall pass no special Law, for any
case, for whichprovision has been made, by an existing
General Law. The General Assembly, at its first Session
after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass General
Laws, providing for the cases enumerated in this section,
which are not already adequately provided for, and for all
other cases, where a General Law can be made applicable.

SEC. 34.59 No debt shall be hereafter contracted by
the General Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized
by a lawproviding for the collection of an annual tax or
taxes sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls
due, and also to discharge the principal thereof within
fifteen years from the time of contracting the same; and the
taxes laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied
to any other object until the said debt and interest thereon
shall be fully discharged. The annual tax or taxes required
to be collected shall not be collected in the event that
sufficient funds to pay the principal and interest on the debt
are appropriated for this purpose in the annual State bud-
get. The credit of the State shall not in any manner be
given, or loaned to, or in aid of any individual association
or corporation; nor shall the General Assembly have the
power to involve the State in the construction of works of
internal improvement which shall involve the faith or credit
of the State, except in aid of the construction of works of
internal improvement in the counties of St. Mary's, Charles
and Calvert, which have had no direct advantage from such
works as have been heretofore aided by the State; and
provided that such aid, advances or appropriations shall not
exceed in the aggregate the sum of five hundred thousand

Article III

dollars. And they shall not use or appropriate the proceeds
of the internal improvement companies, or of the State tax,
now levied, or which may hereafter be levied, to pay off
the public debt or to any other purpose until the interest
and debt are fully paid or the sinking fund shall be equal to
the amount of the outstanding debt; but the General
Assembly may authorize the Board of Public Works to
direct the State Treasurer to borrow in the name of the
State, in anticipation of the collection of taxes or other
revenues, including proceeds from the sale of bonds, such
sum or sums as may be necessary to meet ten^ra^
deficiencies in the treasury, to preserve the best interest of
the State in the conduct of the various State institutions,
departments, bureaus, and agencies during each fiscal year.
Subject to the approval of the Board of Public Works and
as provided by law, the State Treasurer is authorized to
make and sell short-term notes—in the name of the State,
in anticipation of the collection of taxes or other revenues,
including proceeds from the sale of bonds to meet 16™^
rary deficiencies in the Treasury, but such notes must only
be made to provide for appropriations already made by the
General Assembly. Any revenues anticipated for the pur-
pose of short-term notes, made and sold under the author-
ity of this section, must be so certain as to be readily
estimable as to the time of receipt of the revenues and as to
the amount of the revenues. The General Assembly 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 pu^se of aiding or componsating 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 Assem-
bly 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.

SEC. 35.60 Extra compensation may not be granted
or allowed by the General Assembly to any public Officer,
Agent, Servant or Contractor, after the service has been
rendered, or the contract entered into; nor may the salary
or compensation of any public officer be increased or
diminished during his term of office except those whose
full term of office is fixed by law in excess of 4 years.
However, after January 1,1956, for services rendered after
that date, 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 however, in-
creased or decreased, it may not again be increased or
decreased, as the case may be, during the term of such
public officer.