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Ing, or receiving a bribe, fee, reward or testimonial, to testify
against any person, or persons who may have committed any of
said offences; provided, that any person, so compelled to
testify, shall be exempted from trial and punishment for the
offence, of which he may have been guilty; and any person,
convicted of such offence, shall, as part of the punishment
thereof, be forever disfranchised and disqualified from hold-
ing any office of trust, or profit, in this State.
Sec. 51. The personal property of residents of this State,
shall be subject to taxation in the county, or city, where the
resident bonafide resides for the greater part of the year, for
which the tax may, or shall be levied, and not elsewhere, ex-
cept goods and chattels permanently located, which shall be
taxed in the City or County, where they are so located.
Sec, 52. The General Assembly shall appropriate no money
out of the Treasury for payment of any private claim against
the State exceeding three hundred dollars, unless said claim
shall have been first presented to the Comptroller of the
Treasury, together with the proofs upon which the same is
founded, and reported upon by him.
Sec. 53. No person shall be incompetent, as a witness, on
account of race or color, unless hereafter so declared by Act
of the General Assembly.
Sec. 54. No County of this State shall contract any debt,
or obligation, in the construction of any Railroad, Canal, or
other Work of Internal Improvement, nor give, or loan its
credit to, or in aid of any association, or corporation, unless
authorized by an Act of the General Assembly, which shall
be published for two months before the next election for mem-
bers of the House of Delegates in the newspapers published
in such County, and shall also be approved by a majority of
all the members elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly at its next session after said election.
Sec. 55. The General Assembly shall pass no Law sus-
pending the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Sec. 56. The General Assembly shall have power to pass
all such Laws as may be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution, the powers vested by this Constitution in any
Department, or Office of the Government, and the duties im-
posed upon them thereby.
Sec. 57. The legal Rate of Interest shall be six per cent,
per annum, unless otherwise provided by the General Assem-
bly
Sec. 58. The Legislature, at its first session after the rati-
fication of this Constitution, shall provide by Law, for State
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