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corporation; nor shall the General Assembly have the power in any mode
to involve the State in the construction of works of internal improvement,
nor in granting any aid thereto which shall involve the faith or credit of
the State; nor make any appropriation therefor, except in aid of the Con-
struction 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 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, without laying a tax, borrow an amount never to
exceed fifty thousand dollars to meet temporary deficiencies in the Treasury,
and may contract debts to any amount that may be necessary for the defence
of the State. And provided further that nothing in this section shall be con-
strued 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 allowed 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 diminished
during his term of office.

Where the fee table of justices of the peace is not affected by an act so far as
the costs to litigants is concerned, but is repealed by said act in so far as it relates
to the ultimate disposition of those fees, the act is valid. See notes to art. 4, sec. 42.
Levin v. Hewes, 118 Md. 642.

See notes to sec. 32.

Sec. 36. No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorized by the
General Assembly.

In the adoption of this section, there was no design to interfere with existing
private lottery grants or to impair the existing power of the legislature to regulate
the same, or modify the means by which such grants might be more effectually or
speedily accomplished. Object and construction of this section. Lucas v. McBlair,
12 G. & J. 17.

For a case dealing with the provisions of the Constitution of 1851 relative to
lotteries, see Broadbent v. State, 7 Md. 429.

See notes to sec. 32.

Sec. 3Y. The General Assembly shall pass no Law providing for payment
by this State for Slaves emancipated from servitude in this State; but they

1 This amendment was submitted by act of 1924, ch. 327, and will be voted upon by the
people in November, 1924.