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which shall accept, use, enjoy or in anywise avail itself of
any rights, privileges, or advantages that may hereafter be
granted or conferred by any general or special Act, shall be
conclusively presumed to have thereby surrendered any ex-
exemption from taxation to which it may be entitled under
its charter, and shall be thereafter subject to taxation as if
no such exemption has been granted by its charter.]*
New Central Coal Co. v. George's Creek Coal and Iron Co., 37 Md„
537. Montell & Co. v. Consolidated Coal Co., 39 Md., 164. State v.
Northern Central R. R. Co., 44 Md., 131. Reed v. Balto. Trust and
Guarantee Co., 72 Md., 531. Jackson v. Walsh, 75 Md., 304. Webster
v. Cambridge Female Seminary, 78 Md., 193. Phinney v. Sheppard
Hospital, 88 Md., 638. State v. N. C. By. Co., 90 Md., 471. Scholle v.
State, 90 Md., 734. Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md., 745.
SEC. 49. The General Assembly shall have power to regu- |
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Elections. |
late by law, not inconsistent with this Constitution, all mat-
ters which relate to the Judges of Election, time, place and
manner of holding elections in this State, and of making re-
turns thereof.
Lankford v. Commrs. Somerset Co., 73 Md., 105.
SEC. 50. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly at |
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Bribery. |
its first session, held after the adoption of this Constitution,
to provide by law for the punishment, by fine, or imprison-
ment in the penitentiary, or both, in the discretion of the
court, of any person who shall bribe or attempt to bribe any
Executive, or Judicial officer of the State of Maryland, or
any member, or officer of the General Assembly of the State
of Maryland, or of any municipal corporation in the State
of Maryland, or any executive officer of such corporation, in
order to influence him in the performance of any of his |
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Punishment. |
official duties; and also, to provide by law for the punish-
ment, by fine, or imprisonment in the penitentiary, or both,
in the discretion of the court, of any of said officers, or mem-
bers, who shall demand or receive any bribe, fee, reward or
testimonial for the performance of his official duties, or for
neglecting or failing to perform the same; and also, to pro-
vide by law for compelling any person so bribing, or at-
tempting to bribe, or so demanding or receiving a bribe, fee, |
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Evidence. |
reward or testimonial, to testify against any person or per-
sons who may have committed any of said offences; pro-
vided, that any person so compelled to testify shall be ex-
empted from trial and punishment for the offence of which |
Disqualifica-
tion.
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he may have been guilty; and any person convicted of such
offence shall, as part of the punishment thereof, be forever
*As amended by Chapter 195, Acts of 1890, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 3, 1891. |
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