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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,
providing for the sale of real estate, belonging to minors,
or other persons laboring under legal disabiGties, by ex
ccutors, 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 which provision 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. 34.⁶¹ 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 pnncipal 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taxes laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied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 shaUnot be collected in the event that
sufficient funds to pay the pnncipal and interest on the debt
are appropriated for this purpose in the annual State
budget 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 ofSt Mary's, Charles
and Calvcrt, 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
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 temporary
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

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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 tern
porary 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
authority 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 purpose of aiding or compensating 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 As
scmbly 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. 3S. 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 nmc 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

SEC. 3SA.⁶³ Nothing in this Constitution shall ex
cmpt 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. 36.⁶⁴ No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be
authorized by the General Assembly, unless it is a lottery
to be operated by and for the benefit of the State

SEC. 37.⁶⁵ Vacant

SEC. 38." No person shall be imprisoned for debt,
but a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction or
agreement approved by decree of said court for the support
of a spouse or dependent children, or for the support of an
illegitimate child or children, or for alimony (cither corn
mon law or as defined by statute), shall not constitute a
debt within the meaning of this section