respective share or shares of stock in such
banking institution for all its debts and lia-
bilities upon note, hill or otherwise; and
upon the further condition that no director
or other officer of said corporation shall bor-
row any money from said corporation; and
if any director or other officer shall be con-
victed upon indictment of directly or indi-
rectly violating this section, he shall be pun-
ished by fine or imprisonment at the discre-
tion of the court. The books, papers, and
accounts of all banks shall be open to inspec-
tion, under such regulations as may be pre-
scribed by law.
Sec. 39. The general assembly shall enact
no law authorizing private property to be
taken for public use without just compensa-
tion as agreed upon between the parties or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or ten-
dered to the party entitled to such compensa-
tion.
Sec. 40. 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 a
second, or knowingly aid or assist in any
manner those thus offending, and any citi-
zen who has thus offended, or who has so
aided or assisted those thus offending, since
the first Wednesday of June, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-one, shall ever thereafter be
incapable of holding any office of trust or
profit under this State.
Sec. 41. The general assembly shall pass
laws for the preservation of the purity of
elections by the registration of voters, and
by such other means as may be deemed ex-
pedient; and to make effective the provisions
of the constitution disfranchising certain
persons, or disqualifying them from holding
office.
Sec. 42. The general assembly shall pass
laws necessary to protect the property of the
wile from the debts of the husband during
her life, and for securing the same to her
issue after her death.
Sec. 43. Laws shall be passed by the gen-
eral assembly to protect from execution a
reasonable amount of property of a debtor
not exceeding in value the sum of five hun-
dred dollars.
Sec. 44. The general assembly shall provide
a 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 compensa-
tion to any of said officers shall not exceed the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars a year
over and above office expenses, and compen-
sation 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. 45. The general assembly shall have
power to receive from the United States any
grant or donation of land, money or securi-
ties, for any purpose designated by the Uni-
ted States, and shall administer or distribute
the same according to the conditions of the
said grant.
Sec. 46. The general assembly shall make
provision for all cases of contested elections
of any of the officers not berein provided for.
Sec. 47. The general assembly shall pass
laws re quiring the president, directors, trus-
tees, or agents of corporations created or
authorized ley the laws of this State, teach-
ers or superintendents of the public: schools,
colleges, or other institutions of learning;
attorneys-at-law, jurors, and such other per-
sons as the general assembly shall from time
to time prescribe to take the oath of allegi-
ance to the United States, set forth in the
first article (if this constitution.
Sec. 48, The general assembly shall have
power to accept the session of any territory
contiguous to this State, from the States of
Virginia and West Virginia, or from the
United States, with the consent of congress,
and of the inhabitants of such ceded ter-
ritory, and in case of such cessions the
general assembly may divide such territory
into counties, and shall provide for the
representation of the same in the general
assembly, on the basis fixed by this consti-
tution, and may for that purpose increase
the number of senators and delegates, and
the general assembly shall enact such laws as
may be required to extend the constitution
and laws of this State over such territory,
and may create courts conformably to the
constitution for such territory, and may for
that purpose increase the number of judges
of the court of appeals.
Sec. 49. The general assembly shall pro-
vide by law for the registration of births,
marraigees and deaths, and shall pass laws
providing for the celebration of marraige be-
tween any persons legally competent to con-
tract marriage, and shall provide that any
persons prevented by conscientious scruples
from being married by any of the existing
provisions of law, may be married by any
judge or clerk of any court of record, or any
mayor of any incorporated city in this State.
Sec. 50. The rate of interest in this State
shall not exceed six per centum per annum,
and no higher rate shall be taken or de-
manded, and the general assembly shall provide
by law, all necessary forfeitures and
penalties against usury.
Sec. 51. Corporations may beformed under
general laws, but shall not be created by
special act, except for municipal purposes
and in cases where, in the judgment of the
general assembly, the object of the corpora-
tion cannot be attained tinder general laws.
All laws and special acts, pursuant to this
section may be altered from time to time, or |
