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matter not appertaining to the business of the session, shall
be purchased or subscribed for for the use of the members,
or be distributed among them, at the public expense.
Sec. 29. 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 de-
clared 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 publication of the same.
Sec. 30. The General Assembly shall pass laws for the pre-
servation of the purity of elections, by the registration of
voters, or by such other means as may be deemed expedient,
and to make effective the provisions of the Constitution dis-
franchising certain persons, or disqualifying them from hold-
ing office.
Sec. 31. Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly
and scaled 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 Courts, in the
same manner as has been heretofore usual in this State.
Sec. 32. No collector, receiver or holder of public moneys
shall 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. 33. 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 a second, or knowingly aid or assist
in any manner those thus offending, and any citizen who has
thus offended, or who has so aided or assisted those thus of-
fending since the first Wednesday of June eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, shall ever thereafter be incapable of holding any
office of trust or profit under this State.
Sec. 34. No lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorized
by the General Assembly.
Sec. 35. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary
to protect the property of the wife from the debts of the hus-
band during her life, and for securing the same to her issue
after her death.
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