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belonging to minors or other persons laboring under
legal disabilities, by executors, administrators, guardians
or trustees; giving effect to informal or invalid deeds or
wills; refunding money paid into the State Treasury, or
releasing persons from their debts or obligations to the
State, unless recommended by the Governor or officers of
the Treasury Department. And the General Assembly
shall pass no special law for any case for which provision
has been made by an existing General Law. The General
Assembly, at its first session, after the adoption of this
Constitution, shall pass General Laws providing for the
cases enumerated in this section which are not already
adequately provided for, and for all other cases where a
General Law can be made applicable.
House bills are regularly amended on their second
reading, but may be amended by consent on the third
reading.
Senate bills are regularly amended on their third
reading.
STYLE OF AMENDMENT.
"Strike out all over the words——— in line 3,
Sec. I, and. insert in. lieu thereof the following:"
Forms for Acts may be found in the several volumes
of the Acts of Assembly.
It is wise, however, for members unaccustomed to draw
Acts of Assembly, or who are not lawyers, to consult a
member of the legal profession, or a professional writer
of bills, before presenting them to the Assembly. A
slight error may cost an Act its validity or destroy its
intended usefulness.
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