xxxviii CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 3.

vided for, and for all other cases where a General Law can be
made applicable.

Whittington v. Polk, 1 H. & J. 236. Horsey e State, 3 H. & J. 2. Gover v.
Hall, Ezr., 3 H. & J. 43. Partridge v. Dorsey, 3 H. & J. 302. Crane v.
Meginnis, 1 G. & J. 463. Lessee of Dulaney, Ac., v. Tilghman, 6 G. & J. 461V
Norris v. Trustees of the Abingdon Academy, 7 G. & J. 7. Berrett v. Oliver,
7 G. & J, 191. Lawrence v. Hicks, 8 G. & J. 386. The Regents of the Uni-
versity of Maryland v. Williams, 9 G. & J. 365. Dorsey v. Gilbert, 11 G. & J.
87. Cromwell v. State, 12 G. & J- 257. Prout v. Berry, 12 G. & J. 286. State
v. B. & O. R. R Co, 12 G. & J. 400. Campbell's Cose, 2 Bl. 209. Wright v.
Wright's Lessee, 2 Md. 429. Rock Hill College v. Jones, 47 Md. 16. Pum-
phrey v. Mayor, &c., of Balto., 47 Md. 145. O'Brien & Co. v. Co. Commrs, of
Balto. Co., 51 Md. 15. Co. Commrs, of Prince George's Co v. Commrs of
Laurel, 51 Md. 457. Montague, Ezr., v. State, 54 Md. 481. Hodges v. Balto.
Passenger Railway Co., 58 Md. 603.

SEC. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General
Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by a Law providing
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 re-
pealed or applied to any other object until the said debt and
interest thereon shall be fully discharged. 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 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
construction of Works of Internal Improvement, in the counties
of Saint 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, to any other purpose until the interest and debt are fully
paid, or the sinking fund shall be equal to the amount of the out-
standing debt; but the General Assembly may, without laying &
tax, borrow an amount never to exceed fifty thousand dollars to