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amended by reference to its title or section only; and it
shall be the duty of the General Assembly, in amending
any article or section of the code of laws of this State, to
enact the same as the said article or section would read
when amended; and whenever the General Assembly shall
enact any public general law, not amendatory of any sec-
tion or article in the said code, it shall be the duty of the
General Assembly to enact the same, in articles and sec-
tions, in the same manner as the code is arranged, and
to provide for the publication of all additions and altera-
tions which may be made to the said code.
Sec. 26. Every bill when passed by the General As-
sembly, 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,
published, and certified, under the great seal, to the sev-
eral courts, in the same manner as has been heretofore
usual in this State.
Sec. 27. No law passed by the General Assembly shall
take effect until the first day of June next after the ses-
sion at which it may be passed, unless it be otherwise ex-
pressly declared therein; and in case any public law is
made to take effect before the said first day of June, the
General Assembly shall provide for the immediate publi-
cation of the same, if general, throughout the State; if
local, in the counties to which they apply.
Sec. 28. No money shall be drawn from the treasury
of the State by any order or resolution, nor except in ac
cordance with an appropriation by law, and every such^
law shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated and the
object to which it shall be applied; provided, that noth-
ing herein contained shall prevent the General Assembly
from placing a contingent fund at the disposal of the
Executive, who shall report to the General Assembly at
each session the amount expended and the purposes to
which it was applied. An accurate statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the public money shall be at-
tached to and published with the laws, after each regular
session of the General Assembly.
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