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710 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3
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 dimin-
ished during his term of office. Provided, however, from
and after January 1, 1956, for services rendered after that
date, that the salary or compensation of any appointed
public officer of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
may be increased or diminished at any time during his
term of office; except that as to officers in the Classified
City Service, when the salary of any appointed public officer
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be so
increased or decreased, it shall not again be increased or
decreased as the case may be, during the term of such
public officer.
1 SEC. 35A. Nothing in this Constitution shall exempt
the salary or compensation of any judge or other public
officer from the imposition by the General Assembly of a
non-discriminatory tax upon income.
2 SEC. 36. No Lottery grant shall ever hereafter be au-
thorized by the General Assembly, unless it is a lottery to
be operated by and for the benefit of the State.
SEC. 37. The General Assembly shall pass no Law pro-
viding for payment by this State, for Slaves emancipated
from servitude in this State; but they shall adopt such
measures, as they may deem expedient, to obtain from the
United States, compensation for such Slaves, and to receive,
and distribute the same, equitably, to the persons entitled.
3 SEC. 38. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but
a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction or agree-
ment approved by decree of said court for the support of a
wife or dependent children, or for the support of an illegiti-
mate child or children, or for alimony, shall not constitute a
debt within the meaning of this section.
* SEC. 39. The books, papers and accounts of all banks
shall be open to inspection under such regulations as may
be prescribed by law.
SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall enact no Law au-
thorizing private property to be taken for public use with-
out just compensation, as agreed upon between the parties,
or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the
party entitled to such compensation.
I Thus added by Chapter 771, Acts of 1939. ratified November 5, 1940.
" Thus amended by Chapter 364, Acts of 1972, ratified November 7, 1972.
3 Thus amended by Chapter 121, Acts of 1962, ratified November 7, 1972.
4 Thus amended by Chapter 151, Acts of Sp. Sess. of 1936, ratified Nov. 3, 1936.

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