the publication of all additions and altera-
tions which may be made to the said code.
Sec. 29. 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, pub-
lished, and certified under the great seal to
the several courts, in the same manner as has
been heretofore usual in this State.
Sec. 30. No law passed by the general as-
sembly 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; 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. 31. No money shall be drawn from
the treasury of the State, except in accord-
ance within appropriation by law, and every
such law shall distinctly specify the sum ap-
propriated and the object to which it shall be
applied; provided that nothing herein con-
tained shall prevent the general assembly
from placing a contingent fund at the disposal
of the executive, who shall report to the gen-
eral assembly at each session the amount ex-
pended, and the purposes to which it was
applied; an accurate statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the public money
shall be attached to and published with the
laws, after each regular session of the gen-
eral assembly.
Sec. 32. The general assembly shall not
pass local or special laws in any of the follow-
ing enumerated cases, viz:
For the assessment and collection of taxes
for State or county purposes, or extending
the time for the collection of taxes ;
Providing for the support of the public
schools;
The preservation of school funds ;
The location or the regulation of school-
houses ;
Granting divorces;
Relating to fees or salaries ;
Relating to the interest on money ;
Providing for regulating the election or
compensation of State or county officers ;
Or designating the places of voting;
Or the boundaries of election districts;
Providing for the sale of real estate belong-
ing to minors or other persons laboring under
legal disabilities, by executors, administra-
tors, guardians or trustees;
Giving effect to informal or invalid deeds
or wills;
Refunding money paid into the State trea-
sury; or releasing persons from their debts or
obligations to the State, unless recommended
by the governor or officers of the treasury
department; |
Or establishing, locating" or affecting the
construction of roads, and the repairing or
building of bridges.
And the general assembly shall pass no
special law for any case tor which provision
has been made by an existing general law.
The general assembly at its first session after
tile adoption of this constitution, shall pass
general laws providing for the cases' enumera-
ted in this section, and for all other cases
where a general law can be made applicable.
Sec. 33. No debt shall be hereafter con-
tracted by the general assembly, unless such
debt shall be authorized by a law providing
for the collection of an annual tax or taxes
sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as
it falls due, and also to discharge the princi-
pal thereof within fifteen years from the time
of contraacting the same, and the taxes laid
for this purpose shall not be repealed or alp-
plied to any other object until the said debt
and interest thereon shall be fully discharged.
The credit of the State shall not, in any man-
ner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of any
individual], association or corporation, nor
shall the general assembly have the power in
any mode to involve the State in the con-
struction of works of internal improvement,
nor in any enterprise which shall involve the
faith or credit of the State, nor make any
appropriations therefor. And they shall not
use or appropriate the proceeds of the inter-
nal improvement companies, or of the State
tax now levied, or which may hereafter be
levied, to pay off the public debt, to any other
purpose until the interest and debt are fully
paid, or the sinking fund shall be equal to
the amount of the outstanding debt; but the
general assembly may, without laying a tax,
burrow an amount never to exceed fifty thou-
sand dollars, to meet temporary deficiencies
in the treasury, and may contract debts to
any amount that may be necessary for the
defence of the State.
Sec. 34. No extra compensation shall be
granted or allowed by the general assembly
to any public officer, agent, servant or con-
tractor, after the services shall have been
rendered or the contract entered into; nor
shall the salary or compensation of any pub-
lic officer be increased or diminished during
his term of office.
Sec, 35. No lottery grant shall ever here-
after be authorized by the general assembly.
Sec. 36. The general assembly shall pass
no law, nor make any appropriation to com-
pensate the masters or claimants of slaves
emancipated from servitude by the adoption
of this constitution
Sec. 37. No person shall be imprisoned for
debt.
See, 38. The general assembly shall grant
no charter for banking purposes, nor renew
any banking corporation now in existence,
except upon the condition that the stock-
holders shall be liable to the amount of their |
