ART. III.] CONSTITUTION. 45
SEC. 52. The General Assembly shall appropriate no
money out of the Treasury for payment of any private claim
against the State exceeding three hundred dollars, unless said
claim shall have been first presented to the Comptroller of the
Treasury, together with the proofs upon which the same is
founded, and reported upon by him. |
Private
claims. |
SEC. 53. No person shall be incompetent, as a witness, on
account of race or color, unless hereafter so declared by Act
of the General Assembly. |
Witnesses. |
SEC. 54. No county of this State shall contract any debt,
or obligation, in the construction of any railroad, canal, or
other work of internal improvement, nor give, or loan its
credit to or in aid of any association, or corporation, unless
authorized by an Act of the General Assembly, which shall be
published for two months before the next election for mem-
bers of the House of Delegates in the newspapers published
in such county, and shall also be approved by a majority of
all the members elected to each House of the General Assem-
bly, at its next session after said election.
Baltimore & Drum Point Railroad Company vs. Pumphrey, 74 Md.,
86. Baltimore & Eastern Shore R. Co. vs. Spring, 80 Md., 510. |
Counties
forbidden
to contract
debts with-
out au-
thority. |
SEC. 55. The General Assembly shall pass no law suspend-
ing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. |
Habeas cor-
pus. |
SEC. 56. The General Assembly shall have power to pass
all such laws as may be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the powers vested by this Constitution, in any
department or office of the Government, and the duties im-
posed upon them thereby. |
Powers of As-
sembly. |
SEC. 57. The legal rate of interest shall be six per cent per
annum, unless otherwise provided by the General Assembly.
Bandel vs. Isaac, 13 Md., 202. Birmingham vs. Md. Land and Perm.
Homestead Association of Balto. Co., 45 Md., 541. Citizens' Land Co.
vs. Uhler, 48 Md., 455. |
Interest. |
SEC. 58. The Legislature, at its first session after the rati-
fication of this Constitution, shall provide by law for State
and municipal taxation upon the revenues accruing from bus-
iness done in the State by all foreign corporations. |
Foreign cor-
porations. |
SEC. 59. The office of "State Pension Commissioner" is
hereby abolished; and the Legislature shall pass no law cre-
ating such office, or establishing any general pension system
within this State. |
Pension
system
abolished. |
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