SEC. 32. So law shall be passed creating
the office of attorney general.
SEC. 33. The general assembly shall have
fall power to exclude 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.
Sue. 34. Every bill, when passed by the
general assembly, and seated with the great
seal, shall be presented to the Governor, who
shall sign the fame in the presence of the pre-
siding 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 here-
tofore usual in tills State,
SEC. 35. No person who may hereafter be
a collector, receiver or bolder of public mon-
eys, shall beeligible 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 there-
of, charged to and due by him.
SEC. 36. Any citizen of this State who
shall, after the adoption 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 know-
ingly aid or assist in any manner those thus
offending, shall ever hereafter be incapable of
holding any office of trust or profit under this
State,
SEC. 37. No lottery grant shall ever here-
after be authorized 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 legis-
lature to protect from execu tion a reasonable
amount of the property of a debtor, not ex-
ceeding in value the sum of five hundred dol-
lars.
SEC. 40. The legislature shall, at its first
session after the adoption 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 collec-
tion thereof; provided, the amount of com-
pensation to any of said officers shall not ex-
ceed the Bum of twenty-five hundred dollars a
year, over and above office expenses, and
compensation to assistants; and provided,
further, that such compensation of clerks,
registers, assistants and office expenses, shall
always be paid out of the fees or receipts of
the offices respectively.
SEC. 41. The house of delegates shall have
the sole power of impeachment in all cases,
but a, majority of all the members must con- |
cur in an impeachment; all impeachments
shall be tried by the senate, and when sitting
for that purpose they shall be on oath or
affirmation to do justice according to the law
and evidence, but no person shall be convicted
without the concurrence of two-thirds of all
the senators.
SEC. 42. That it shall be the duty of the
legislature so noon as the public debt shall
have been fully paid off, to cause to be trans-
ferred to the several counties and the city of
Baltimore, stock in the internal improvement
companies, equal to the amount respectively
paid by each towards the erection and com-
pletion of said works, at the then market
value of said stock.
SEC, 43. The legislature shall not pass any
law abolishing the relation of master or slave,
as it now exists in this State.
SEC. 44. No person shall be imprisoned for
debt.
SEC. 45. The legislature hereafter shall
grant no charter for banking purposes or re-
new any banking corporation now in exis-
tence, except upon the condition that the
stockholders and directors shall be liable to
the amount of their respective share or shares
of stock in such banking institution for all its
debts and liabilities upon note, bill or other-
wise; and upon the further condition that HO
director or other officer of said corporation
shall borrow any money from said corpora-
tion; and if any director or other officer shall
beconvicted upon indictment of directly or
indirectly violating this article, he shall be
punished by fine or imprisonment at the dis-
cretion of the court. All banks shall be open
to inspection of their books, papers and ac-
counts, undersuch regulations as may be pre-
scribed by law.
SEC. 46. The legislature shall enact no law
authorizing private properly to be taken for
public use without just compensation as agreed
upon between the parties or awarded by a
jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation.
SEC. 47. Corporations may be formed un-
der general laws, but shall not be created by
special act, except for municipal purposes, and
in cases where, in the judgment of the legis-
lature, the object of the corporation cannot
be attained under general laws. All laws and
special acts pursuant to this section may be
altered from time to time, or repealed; provi-
ded nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to alter, change or amend in any man-
ner the article in relation to banks.
SEC. 48. The legislature shall make provis-
ion for all cases of contested elections of any
of the officers not herein provided for.
SEC. 43. That the rate of interest in this
State shall not exceed six per cent. per an-
num, and no higher rate shall be taken or
demanded, and the legislature shall provide,
by law, nil necessary forfeitures and penalties
against usury. |
