530. DEBT—PUBLIC. [ART. 31

directed to levy the State taxes for the years 1915 and 1916 at two and
one-half-cents, (2 1/2) on each one. hundred dollars of assessable property;
and for the year 1917 and annually thereafter to and including the year ,
1929 at six cents (6) on each one hundred dollars of assessable property,
to be collected according to law, to meet the interest on the amount of
said certificates outstanding, and also meet and redeem so much of the
principal, in each of said years, as will be represented by certificates
redeemable in each year, respectively, as specified in section 2. of the
Act of 1914, Chapter 267.*

Limit of Expenditures.

1914, ch. 451.

50. An officer or agent of the State or any county, township or
municipal corporation, who is charged or entrusted with the construc-
tion, improvement, or keeping in repair of any building or work of any
kind, or with the management or providing for any public institution.
shall not make any contract binding or purporting to bind the State, or
any county, township or any municipal corporation to pay any sum of
money not previously appropriated for the purpose for which such con-
tract is made, and remaining unexpended, and applicable to such pur-
pose,+ such officer or agent who willfully or knowingly makes or partici-
pates in making a contract without such appropriation or authority,
shall be personally liable thereon, and the State, county, township or
municipal corporation in whose name or behalf the same was made, shall
be not liable thereon.

1914, ch. 451.

51. It shall be unlawful for the trustees, managers, directors or
superintendent of any of the public institutions of the State of Mary--
land, to create a deficiency, incur a liability, or to expend a greater sum
of money than is appropriated by the General Assembly of Maryland
for the use of such public institution or department.

1914, ch. 451.

52. Any officer enumerated in section 50 of this Article being found
guilty of willfully or knowingly creating a deficiency, incurring a liabil-
ity, or expending a greater sum than is appropriated by the General
Assembly of Maryland for any public institution or department of this
State in any one year, shall be held individually liable for the same, and
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
for the first offense, and Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for all
subsequent offenses, or shall be imprisoned in the Maryland Penitentiary
for a period of two years, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion
of the Court.

*For full details of the "State Roads Loan of 1914," see the act of 1914, ch.
267; see also, art. 91, sec. 39A, et seq.
+The punctuation of this line is just as it appears in the act.