presiding officer of each House, shall be allowed an addition of
one dollar per day. No book or other printed matter not apper
taming to the business of the session, shall be purchased or sub
scribed for, for the use of the members or be distributed among
them, at the public expense.

SEC. 31. No law passed by the General Assembly, shall take
effect until the first day of June next, after the session at which it
may be passed, unless it be otherwise expressly declared therein.

SEC. 32. No law shall be passed creating the office of Attorney
General.
SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall have full power to ex
clude from the privilege of voting at elections, or of holding any
civil or military office in this State, any person who may thereafter
be convicted of perjury, bribery or other felony, unless such person
shall have been pardoned by the Executive.

SEC. 34. 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, published and certified under the great seal to
the several cowls in the same manner as has been heretofore usual
in this State.

SEC. 35. No person who may hereafter be a collector, receiver
or holder of public moneys shalt 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. 36. Any citizen of this State who shall, after the adop
tion 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 second, or knowingly aid or assist in any manner,
those thus offending, shall ever thereafter be incapable of holding
any office of trust or profit under this State.
SEC. 37. No lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorised by
the Legislature.
SEC. 38. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary to
protect the property of the wife from the debts of the husband
during her life, and for securing the same to her issue after her
death.
SEC. 39. Laws shall be passed by the Legislature to pro
tect from execution a reasonable amount of the prvperty of a
debtor, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred dollars.
SEC. 40. The Legislature shall at its first session after the adcp
tion of this constitution adopt some simple and uniform system
of charges in the offices of clerks of courts and registers of wills
in the counties of this State and the city of Baltimore, and for the
collection thereof; provided, the amount of compensation to any