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.

SEC. 55. The General Assembly shall pass no law suspend-
ing the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

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.

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.

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 busi-
ness done in the State by all foreign corporations.

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.

*SEC. 60. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have
the power to provide by suitable general enactment (a) for the
suspension of sentence by the Court in criminal cases; (b) for
any form of the indeterminate sentence in criminal cases, and
(c) for the release upon parole in whatever manner the Gen-
eral Assembly may prescribe, of convicts imprisoned under
sentence for crimes.
ARTICLE IV.

JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT.
Part I—General Provisions.

SECTION 1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested
in a Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, Orphans' Courts, such
Courts for the city of Baltimore as are hereinafter provided
for, and Justices of the Peace; all said Courts shall be Courts
of Record, and each shall have a seal to be used in the authen-
tication of all process issuing therefrom. The process and
official character of Justices of the Peace shall be authenti-

*Thus added by Chapter 453, 1914, ratified November 2, 1915.