Constitution disfranchising certain persons,
or disqualifying them from holding office.
Sec. 31. Every bill, when passed by the
General Assembly and sealed with the Great
Seal, shall be presented to the Governor,
who shall sign the same in the presence of
the presiding officers and chief clerks of the
Senate and House of Delegates. Every law
shall be recorded in the office of the Court of
Appeals, and in due time be printed, pub-
lished and certified under the Great Seal to
the several Courts, in the same manner as has
been heretofore usual in this State.
Sec. 32. No collector, receiver or bolder of
public moneys shall be eligible as Senator or
Delegate, or to any office of profit or trust
under this State, until he shall have accounted
for and paid into the Treasury all sums on the
books thereof charged to and due by him.
Sec. 33. Any citizen of this State who
shall, after the adoption of this Constitution,
either in or out of this State, fight a duel
with deadly weapons, or send or accept a
challenge so to do, or who shall act as a
second, or knowingly aid or assist in any
manner those thus offending, and any citizen
who has thus offended, or who has so aided
or assisted those thus offending since the first
Wednesday of June eighteen hundred and
fifty-one, shall ever thereafter be incapable of
holding any office of trust or profit under this
State.
Sec. 34. No lottery grant shall ever here-
after be authorized by the General Assembly.
Sec. 35. The General Assembly shall pass
laws necessary to protect the properly of the
wife from the debts of the husband during
her life, and for securing the same to her issue
after her death,
Sec. 36. Laws shall be passed by the Gene-
ral Assembly to protect from execution, a
reasonable amount of property of a debtor,
not exceeding in value the sum of five hun-
dred dollars.
Sec. 37. The General Assembly shall pro-
vide a simple and uniform system of charges
in the offices of Clerks of Courts and Regis-
ters of Wills in the counties of this State and
the city of Baltimore, and for the collection
thereof; provided, the amount of compensa-
tion to any of said officers shall not exceed
the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars a
year, over and above office expenses, and
compensation to assistants; and provided fur-
ther, that such compensation of Clerks, Regis-
ters, assistants and office expenses, shall al-
ways be paid out of the fees or receipts of the
offices respectively.
Sec. 38. The House of Delegates shall have
the sole power of impeachment in all cases,
but a majority of all the members must con-
cur in an impeachment; all impeachments
shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting
for that purpose, the Senators shall be on
orth or affirmation to do justice according to
the law and evidence, but no person shall be |
convicted without the concurrence of two-
thirds of all the Senators.
Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall pass
laws to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the»
State's interest in the works of internal im-
provement, in which the State is either stock-
holder or creditor; and to appropriate the
proceeds arising therefrom towards the pay-
ment of the public debt of the State; and
after the public debt shall have been fully paid
off, or the sinking fund shall be equal to its
liquidation, to create oat of said proceeds a,
permanent fund for the support of public
education.
Sec. 40. The General Assembly shall pass
no law, nor make any appropriation to com-
pensate the masters or claimants of slaves
emancipated from servitude by the adoption
of this Constitution.
Sec. 41. No person shall be imprisoned for
debt.
Sec. 42. The General Assembly shall grant
no charter for banking purposes, or renew
any banking corporation now in existence,
except upon condition that the stockholders
shall be liable to the amount of their respect-
ive share or shares of stock in such banking
institution subscribed for and not paid in, for
all its debts and liabilities upon note, bill, or
otherwise. All banks shall be open to in-
spection of their books, papers, and accounts
under such regulations as may be prescribed
by law.
Sec. 43, The General Assembly shall enact
no law authorizing private property to be
taken for public use, without just compensa-
tion, as agreed upon between the parties, or
awarded toy a jury, being first paid or ten-
dered to the party entitled to such compensa-
tion.
Sec. 44. Corporations, other than for mu-
nicipal purposes, may be formed and created
under general provisions and regulations, to
be prescribed by the General Assembly, and
shall not be created by special act, except so
far as special acts may be necessary to author-
ize any person or persons to exercise and enjoy
such corporate rights, franchises, and privi-
leges. All laws and special acts pursuant to
this section, may be altered from time to time,
or repealed; provided, nothing herein contain-
ed shall be construed to alter, change, or amend
in any manner the article in relation to
banks.
Sec. 45, The General Assembly shall make
provision for all cases of contested elections
of any of the officers not herein provided for
Sec. 46. The General Assembly shall pass
laws, requiring the Presidents, Directors,
Trustees or Agents of Corporations, created
or authorized by the laws of this State; teach-
ers or superintendents of the Public Schools,
Colleges, or other institutions of learning;
Attorneys at Law, Jurors, and such other per-
sons as the General Assembly shall from time
to time prescribe, to take the oath of allegi- |
