DEBT—PUBLIC. 1203

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 contract is made, and remain-
ing unexpended, and applicable to such purpose,1 such officer or agent who
willfully or knowingly makes or participates 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.

An. Code, sec. 51. 1914, ch. 451.

3. It shall be unlawful for the trustees, managers, directors or superin-
tendent of any of the public institutions of the State of Maryland, 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.

An. Code, sec. 52. 1914, ch. 451.

4. Any officer enumerated in section 2 of this Article being found guilty
of willfully or knowingly creating a deficiency, incurring a liability, 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.

1 The punctuation of this line is just as it appears in the act.