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SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of
the State by any order or resolution, nor except in accord-
ance with an appropriation by law; and every such law
shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated and the object
to which it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent the General Assembly from placing
a contingent fund at the disposal of the Executive, who
shall report to the General Assembly at each session the
amount expended and the purposes to which it was applied.
An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of
the public money shall be attached to and published with
the laws after each regular session of the General Assembly.
SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local or
special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz:
Por extending the time for the collection of taxes; grant-
ing divorces; changing the name of any person; providing
for the sale of real estate 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 pro-
viding 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.
SEC. 34. No debt shall be hereafter contracted 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 principal thereof within fifteen
years from the time of contracting the same; and the taxes
laid for this purpose shall not be repealed or applied to any
other object until the said debt and interest thereon shall
be fully discharged. The credit of the State shall not in
any manner be given, or loaned to, or in aid of any indi-
vidual, association or corporation; nor shall the General
Assembly have the power in any mode to involve the State
in the construction of Works of Internal Improvement, nor
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