ART. III.] CONSTITUTION. 37
Hamilton v. State, 61 Md., 14. Allegany County v. Warfield, 100 Md.,
516.
SEC. 31. No law passed by the General Assembly shall |
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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.
Parkinson v. State, 14 Md., 184. Bisewick v. Davis, 19 Md., 96.
SEC. 32. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of |
When laws
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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 object to which |
Appropria-
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it shall be applied; provided, that nothing herein contained'
shall prevent the General Assembly from placing a conting-
ent fund at the disposal of the Executive, who shall report
to the General Assembly at each session the amount ex- |
Contingent
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pended, and the purposes to which it was applied. An accu-
rate 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.
Thomas v. Owens, 4 Md., 189. McPherson v. Leonard, 29 Md., 377.
SEC. 33. The General Assembly shall not pass local or |
Financial
statement
to be pub-
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special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, viz:
For extending the time for the collection of taxes, granting
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, administra-
tors, guardians or trustees, giving effect to informal or in-
valid deeds or wills, refunding money paid into the State
Treasury, or releasing persons from their debts or obliga-
tions to the State, unless recommended by the Governor or
officers of the Treasury Department. And the General As-
sembly shall pass no special law for any case for which pro-
vision has been made by an existing general law. The Gen-
eral 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.
Whittington v. Polk, 1 H. & J., 236. Horsey v. State, 3 H. & J., 2.
Gover v. Hall, Exr„ 3 H. & J„ 43. Partridge v. Dorsey, 3 H. & J. 302.
Crane v. Meginnis, 1 G. & J., 463. Dulany v. Tilghman, 6 G. & J„ 461.
Norris w. Trustees of the Abingdon Academy, 7 G. & J„ 7. Barrett v.
Oliver, 7 G. & J„ 191. Lawrence v. Hicks, 8 G. & J„ 386. The Re-
gents of the University of Maryland v. Williams, 9 G. & J„ 365. Dor-
sey v. Gilbert, 11 G. & J„ 87. Cromwell v. State 12 0. & J„ 257.
Front v. Berry, 12 G. & J„ 286. State v. B. & 0. R. R. Co., 12 G. & J„
400. Campbell's Case, 2 Bl„ 209. Wright v. Wright, 2 Md., 429. Rock |
Special laws
prohibited.
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