sale of real estate belonging to minors or other persons labor-
ing under legal disabilities, by executors, administrators,
guardians or trustees, giving effect to informal or invalid
deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State Treasury,
or releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the
State, unless recommended by the Governor or officers of the
Treasury Department. And the General Assembly shall pass
no special law for any case for which provision has been made
by an existing general law. The General Assembly, at its
first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall pass
general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this sec-
tion which are not already adequately provided for, and for
all other cases where a general law can be made applicable.

Whittington vs. Polk, I H. & J„ 236. Horsey vs. State, 3 H. & J„ 2.
Cover vs. Hall, Exr., 3 H. & J„ 43. Partridge vs. Dorsey, 3 II. & J„ 302.
Crane vs. Meginnis, I G. & J„ 463. Dulany vs. Tilghman, 6. G. & J„ 46.
Norris vs. Trustees of the Abingdon Academy, 7 G. & J„ 7. Barrett vs.
Oliver, 7 G. & J„ 191. Lawrence vs. Hicks, 8 G. & J„ 386. The Reg-
ents of the University of Maryland vs. Williams, 9 G. & J„ 365. Dor-
sey vs. Gilbert, II G. & J„ 87. Cromwell vs. State, 12 G. & J„ 257.
Prout vs. Berry, 12 G. & J„ 286. State vs. B. &O. R. R. Co., 12 G. & J„
400. Campbell's Case, 2 Bl„ 209. Wright vs. Wright, 2 Md., 429. Rock
Hill College vs. Jones, 47 Md., 16. Pumphrey vs. Mayor, &c., of Balto.,
47 Md., 145. O'Brian & Co. vs. Co. Conimrs. of Baltimore Co., 51 Md„
15. Co. Commrs. of Prince George's Co. vs. Co. Commrs. of Laurel, 51
Md., 457. Montague vs. State, 54 Md., 481. Hodges vs. Balto. Passen-
ger Railway Co., 58 Md., 603. Lankford vs. Conmirs. Somerset Co., 73
Md., 105. Gans vs. Carter, 77 Md„ 1. Revell vs. Mayor, &c., of An-
napolis, 81 Md„ 1. Hamilton vs. Carroll, 82 Md., 326. Mealy vs. Hag-
erstown, 92 Md„ 745. Herbert vs. Balto. Co., 97 Md., 634. Baltimore
City vs. Allegany County, 99 Md„ 1. Miller vs. Wicomico County, 107
Md. Prince George's County vs. B. &O. Ry„ 113 Md.

SEC. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the Gen-
eral Assembly unless such debt shall be authorized by a law
providing for the collection of an annual tax or taxes suffi-
cient 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purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any other object
until the said debt and interest thereon shall be fully dis-
charged. 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 St.
Mary's Charles and Calvert, which have had no direct ad-
vantage from such works as have been heretofore aided by the
State; and provided that such aid, advances or appropriations